For the 90 days ending September 20, 2026, Leander held 5.0 months of inventory and a seller’s market label on that measure, against 5.6 months across the Austin metro. Most of what is for sale has already come off its opening number: 403 of the 643 homes listed on September 21, 2026 were below their original asking price. The label describes the pace of sales and the cuts describe the pricing, and since a price point changes which market a home is in, that label belongs to the town overall.
Leander’s 5.0 months of inventory for the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 is tighter than the Austin metro’s 5.6 months, and the 385 homes that sold went under contract in a median 46 days at 95.6% of their original asking price. That label is the town’s overall, and a price point moves a homeowner into a different one: the $350,000 to $449,999 band ran 4.3 months and a seller’s market label over those 90 days, while the $550,000 to $649,999 band ran 7.0 months and a buyer’s market label. What decides your own answer is the price the house would list at, whether a builder is selling at that price nearby, and how ready the house is on the day it goes live.
Sources: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 21, 2026; NAHB August 2026 builder survey; Unlock MLS July 2026 Central Texas report; WIR New Construction Inventory sheet, read September 18, 2026.
Every figure on this page is tabled on the 78641 housing market report.
Last updated September 21, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of September 21, 2026.
Clearing inventory quicker than the metro does, on prices that have already been marked down. Leander closed 385 sales in the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 at a median $464,990, and the 643 homes standing for sale on September 21 amount to 5.0 months of inventory: if no more homes came on the market, how long it would take to sell everything listed at the current pace. Across the Austin metro the same 90 days read 5.6 months, which WIR’s rule labels balanced for the metro taken whole, and a homeowner’s own price point can put them under a different label entirely.
One ZIP covers nearly the whole town. Taken as the entire ZIP with city lines ignored, 78641 closed 395 homes at a median $470,000 in a median 46 days and held 663 listings on September 21, 2026, which comes to 5.0 months and a seller’s market label attached to that ZIP as a whole, though a price point changes which market a home is in.
Behind the pace is a town that has already discounted itself. 403 of the 643 Leander listings stood below their original asking price on September 21, 2026, 62.7% of them, where the same measure across the Austin metro read 57.3%.
They opened above what buyers in this town have been paying. Sales in the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 finished at 95.6% of original asking, and 67 of the 385, or 17.4%, closed at or above it. The homes still waiting ask a median $519,995 after a median 61 days listed.
Neither half of the inventory is exempt. 110 of the 184 builder listings were below their original asking price on September 21, 2026, and 293 of the 459 resale listings were.
184 of the 643 listings on September 21, 2026, 28.6% of them, under 26 builder names. Their asking prices run $301,342 to $1,749,000, with a median of $604,945, or $210 a square foot; the 459 resale listings sit at $469,900 and $202. D.R. Horton carries 42 of them at $352,190 to $574,990, M/I Homes 28, and Taylor Morrison and Coventry Homes 15 apiece. The closings read differently: 88 of the 385 sales, 22.9%, were new builds at a median $545,820, beside 297 resales at a median $435,000.
The share that matters is the one at your own price. 21 of the 65 listings in the $550,000 to $649,999 band are new builds, 28 homes closed there at a median $589,450 in the 90 days ending September 20, 2026, and at 7.0 months that band carries a buyer’s market label of its own, since a price point puts a homeowner in one market or another. Down at $250,000 to $349,999, new builds are 12 of 114 listings and the band ran 4.5 months under a seller’s market label, again for the band and not for one house. The builder house a buyer at your price can tour the same afternoon as yours is named on what is your Leander home competing against right now?
One Leander community sits on WIR’s New Construction Inventory sheet, read September 18, 2026: Perry Homes at Palmera Ridge 70′ in 78641, published at $945,900 to $1,199,900, with at least 5 move-in-ready specs, close-out pricing published as a $60,000 reduction on select inventory, and no advertised rate. NAHB’s August 2026 survey of builders nationally, a separate computation on a different population, found 63% using incentives.
Lower across the twelve months, higher across the last 90 days. The median sale price for the twelve months ending September 20, 2026 was $454,945 where the prior twelve months read $470,000, down 3.2%; per square foot ran $195 against $205, down 5.0%; and closings came to 1,628 against 1,494, up 9.0%. On the 90-day basis the median was $464,990 against $458,990 in the same 90 days of 2025, up 1.3%, on 385 closings either year.
Those are two periods measured side by side, and WIR does not forecast the next one. What a town median leaves unsaid about one particular house is the question on what is your Leander home worth next to a brand-new house?
WIR’s read, heaviest first. Opening at last year’s number costs the most, and 403 of the 643 listings on September 21, 2026 show what it leads to, in a town whose twelve-month median was $454,945 against $470,000 over the prior twelve months. Next comes trusting the median pace: contract times on the 385 sales spread wide around that median 46 days, 145 of them under contract in 30 days or less against 98 that took more than 90.
Then there is the age of the house measured against what is going up beside it. Of the 385 homes that sold, 32 were built before 2000 and 112 between 2000 and 2014, while 90 came out of 2025 or later. A seller who never learns which of those a buyer at their price is weighing is the one who ends up unsold, covered on why aren’t homes selling in Leander?
The decision itself, as soon as you know roughly what the house would list for. Should you sell your Leander home now, or wait? puts the label, the pipeline and the cuts in one place; on September 21, 2026 the pipeline held 54 listings active under contract and 87 pending, after 543 new listings arrived during the 90 days ending September 20, 2026. Every figure above, with its period and its query ID, is tabled on the 78641 housing market report.
Selling now runs on the pace and the pipeline, and it reads stronger at some prices than at others. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.
Waiting holds up in one place. The $950,000 to $1,049,999 band is too thin to read on 90 days at 7 closings, and over the twelve months ending September 20, 2026 it runs 7.9 months under a buyer’s market label for that band alone, with 27 of its 31 listings already cut. Holding out for a higher price has nothing under it here: the twelve-month median sale price was $454,945 where the prior twelve months read $470,000. The long version is on should you sell your Leander home now, or wait?
Everything above describes a town of 643 listings. You own one address at one price, seen by whoever is shopping that price, and a Palmera Ridge or Bar W Ranch spec is a short drive from most of them. So: at the price your home would list for in Leander today, who stands between you and that buyer, and where does a 2025 build lose to your house?
The figures above belong to a town and a ZIP, and whether Leander’s 5.0 months and its 403 discounted listings work for you or against you turns on your street, your price and the shape the house is in. Give us your address and we run the process behind this page against your actual property. You get:
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Chris Watters’s position, stated September 9, 2026. WIR does not forecast prices; the figures on this page are one period’s measurements.
There is pent-up demand in the market. Tons of buyers on the sidelines not purchasing. This is because there is a lack of alignment between the sellers’ personal wants and what a buyer can afford. Affordability has been severely impacted because of interest rates. Interest rates and home prices move in opposite directions in most instances. However, unlike Wall Street, the market is not that fluid. But in reality, it should be.
In Leander that lack of alignment shows up as 403 of the 643 homes for sale on September 21, 2026 already priced under what they first asked, in a town that still carried a seller’s market label at 5.0 months for the 90 days ending September 20, 2026, a label for the town overall.
Watters International Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage based in Austin, with Chris Watters as broker of record. This page is written from ACTRIS data pulled through MLS Grid and analyzed by WIR on September 21, 2026, and from the WIR New Construction Inventory sheet read September 18, 2026. 34 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Leander since August 2024 (Unlock MLS), 14 of them in the trailing twelve months, with 5 listed now. What is not on file is stated too: the inventory sheet carries one Leander community, so no published range or incentive appears for the other builder names on the MLS, and no advertised builder rate appears anywhere in this cluster; no Leander subdivision has a page of its own yet; and the bands under $250,000, at $950,000 to $1,049,999 and at $1,150,000 to $1,249,999 closed fewer than 10 homes on the 90-day basis, so they are read on the twelve months ending September 20, 2026 wherever they appear here.
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