The 369 Kyle homes that closed in the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 reached a contract in a median 57 days, where the Austin metro’s figure for the same 90 days was 50 days. Inside that median the town splits in two: 107 of the 369 were under contract within 30 days, while 129 took more than 90. Which side a Kyle listing lands on turns on the number it opens with, and 371 of the 598 homes for sale on September 21, 2026 already stand below what they first asked.
A Kyle home that has not sold is carrying a price problem, a promotion problem or a product problem in WIR’s read, because the 369 homes that closed in the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 got to contract in a median 57 days at 94.7% of their original asking price. The board a stalled listing sits on has already been marked down: 371 of the 598 homes for sale on September 21, 2026 ask less than they first did, after a median 64 days out. What moves one house is the number it opens at and what a buyer sees when they walk it.
Sources: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis, pulled September 21, 2026; Unlock MLS, July 2026 Central Texas housing report.
The wider Kyle story is on the Kyle, TX real estate market report, and every figure on this page is tabled on the 78640 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.
The town is still transacting. Kyle closed 369 sales in the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 at 94.7% of original asking, and those sales reached a contract in a median 57 days where the Austin metro measured 50 over the same period. A market that clears 369 homes in a quarter is a poor explanation for one listing standing still.
That median covers two different experiences. 107 of the 369 were under contract within 30 days, 82 took 31 to 60 days, 51 took 61 to 90, and 129 ran past 90 days before a buyer signed.
The region around Kyle is measured on its own basis. Unlock MLS read Central Texas at 4.7 months of inventory and a $435,000 median in the July 2026 Central Texas housing report, a separate source over a separate period from the September 21, 2026 WIR pull behind Kyle’s 4.9 months and the metro’s 5.6.
129 of them left the board that way in the 90 days ending September 20, 2026, a non-sale share of 25.9% where the Austin metro carried 36.4%. The measure counts listings that ended without a sale in the period, expired or withdrawn by off-market date, set against those plus the homes that closed. Kyle reads under the metro on that single period’s level, so a home that fails here runs against the grain of its own town.
Why those 129 did not sell is not something the file answers. Nothing on record lines that group up against the 369 sales by build age, finish, renovation history or subdivision, so no house here gets named as the cautionary one. Time to contract is recorded, and Table 1 breaks it into four groups.
Table 1. How long the 369 homes that sold in Kyle took to go under contract, cumulative days on market to contract, 90 days ending September 20, 2026. Source: Unlock MLS (ACTRIS) via MLS Grid, WIR analysis.
| Days on market | Homes sold |
|---|---|
| 30 days or less | 107 |
| 31 to 60 days | 82 |
| 61 to 90 days | 51 |
| More than 90 days | 129 |
Price is where the record speaks plainly. On September 21, 2026, 371 of the 598 Kyle homes for sale, 62.0% of them, were asking under their own opening number after a median 64 days in front of buyers, where the Austin metro figure was 57.3%. The 369 who closed gave up less: they finished at 94.7% of original asking, and 57 of them, 15.4%, took their opening number or better.
The distance turns up in the two medians. A Kyle sale over the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 ran $307,000 at $165 per square foot; a Kyle listing on September 21, 2026 wanted $329,550 at $171.
Price ranges pull apart from there. The $250,000 to $299,999 range produced 89 sales at 49 days and 95.5% of original asking on 4.0 months of inventory, a seller’s market under WIR’s rule for that range alone. The $450,000 to $499,999 range produced 15 sales at 185 days and 94.0%, with 25 of its 33 listings already cut and 6.6 months reading as a buyer’s market by the same rule. A label belongs to the range it was measured on, a price point changes which market a home is in, and the full table sits on the 78640 housing market report.
Kyle’s closings are mostly new houses. 214 of the 369 sales were built in 2025 or later and 9 predate 2000, and by the new-build proxy 220 were builder product against 149 resales.
The patient half of that median belongs to the builders. Those 220 new builds needed 69 days to contract and settled at 93.7% of original asking; the 149 resales needed 42 days and held 96.3%, so an owner judging a resale by the town’s 57-day figure is judging it by houses they do not own. The standing inventory repeats it: on September 21, 2026 the 278 builder listings had been out a median 65 days with 175 marked down, the 320 resale listings a median 62 days with 196 marked down.
A buyer’s afternoon gets spent in named communities. Waterstone took 123 closings at a median $289,990 over the twelve months ending September 20, 2026 with a median build year of 2025, and Crosswinds 81 at $359,999, so a resale in that company is read against finished stock with a sales office behind it. The builders, their prices and their communities are set out on what is your Kyle home competing against right now?, and the pricing question a resale owner has next is what is your Kyle home worth next to a brand-new house?
Exposure is the agent’s half of the job, and the board refilled all quarter under every listing that waited. Kyle took 441 new listings over the 90 days ending September 20, 2026 while 369 closed, so most weeks a buyer at one price had something fresher to walk through. Chris’s position on the first thirty days is on the Manor page asking how long are homes taking to sell in Manor?, another town measured on another date.
Kyle homes WIR lists are marketed to WIR’s buyer network during the coming-soon stage: more than 2,000 vetted cash buyers and more than 100,000 buyers in the WIR database, and the seller sees every option and chooses. All of that happens before the listing goes public, the one stretch a seller cannot run twice.
The 129 Kyle sales that ran past 90 days each began somewhere the seller had a hand, and so did the listings that left the board with nothing. Which of the three is yours depends on the opening number, on who saw the house early, and on what a walkthrough turns up. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.
None of this forecasts what one address will do. The question underneath it, whether to be in the market this season, gets its answer on the Kyle page on selling now or waiting.
369 sales, 598 listings and 441 new arrivals inside one quarter describe a town. A house is one number inside it, weighed in its opening month by whoever is shopping that price, most of whom can walk a finished 2025 build in Waterstone or Plum Creek North the same afternoon. At the number my Kyle home would open at, would it have been among the 107 under contract inside 30 days, or among the 129 still waiting after 90?
A Kyle home that stalls usually stalls for a reason a seller can name in an afternoon, and the record for your part of town narrows it to one of the three. Give us your address and we run the process behind this page against your actual property. You get:
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Chris’s position, WIR positions library, approved September 9, 2026.
A home that does not sell has a price problem, a promotion problem, or a product problem, and usually the seller was told it was the market. It was not the market. It is also not true that marketing rarely matters. Plenty of homes are marketed badly, by agents who have no system for following up and no system for responding the minute a buyer raises a hand.
Kyle’s record puts a figure under each heading for the 90 days ending September 20, 2026. On price, 57 of the 369 sales closed at or above the number the seller opened with, while 371 of the 598 listings standing on September 21, 2026 had already come down from theirs. On product, the 149 resales among those sales reached a contract in a median 42 days.
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. 13 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Kyle since August 2024 (Unlock MLS).
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