As of October 16, 2026, the Cornerstone homes that D.R. Horton lists ask a median $194,440, well below the typical Rockdale resale listing. Price per square foot held at $151 over the past twelve months and the twelve months before, which is why I read the median beside it. In my read, a seller should price by the square foot and by the median together, since the two tell different stories here.
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 16, 2026; Milam Appraisal District for the parcel record.
11 Rockdale homeowners have trusted my real estate team to sell their home, and that count doesn’t include a single buyer we’ve represented. Everything on this page comes from the same MLS record we used to price those homes.
What these numbers mean if you are selling is on Selling in Rockdale, TX? How Cornerstone and older homes share one market, and every number on this page is also broken out in the tables on Where does Rockdale's 76567 stand against Cameron, Thorndale and Taylor?
Last updated October 16, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending October 15, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of October 16, 2026.
Price per square foot held at $151 over the past twelve months and over the twelve months before, and the last three months match. A typical sale in those three months was $228,000 for 1,525 square feet.
Resales sold for more per foot, with 24 closing at a typical $217,500, or $159 a square foot.
Only 4 new builds closed in those months, too few to give a typical price, so there is no sold price for a new build to set beside these. The chart below shows what a resale square foot sold for.
The Cornerstone homes ask less per square foot as well as in total: $136, against $153 for the typical resale and $149 for the typical home for sale across the town.
Builder asking spans a wide range, so the median says little about any one house. Asking prices are where sellers started, and the sold figures above are where buyers agreed, so I do not set one against the other.
Which homes, communities and price ranges a buyer is weighing against yours is on Does Cornerstone compete with your Rockdale house, or only the older homes?
On town-wide sales, the median sale price is lower than a year ago: $220,000 over the past twelve months, against $248,500 over the twelve months before.
Because the price of a square foot did not move between the two twelve-month periods, a seller anchored to last year’s median is anchored to a number that fell while the price of the space did not. I do not predict where the median goes next; the figures are two measured periods. The timing question, with the last three months beside last year’s, is on Does a buyer’s market mean you should wait to sell in Rockdale?
Buyers paid less than the first asking price in the typical Rockdale sale. They paid 92.2% of original asking over the last three months and 91.1% over the past twelve months.
Why some listings wait for a contract, and what a first price does to the wait, is on Why do Rockdale listings split between quick contracts and long waits?
Treat it as a tool for comparing like with like. Price by the square foot works best between homes of a similar age and condition, and Rockdale’s sales are a mix of older houses and Cornerstone’s newer ones, whose typical build year is 2025.
A Cornerstone square foot and a square foot in a 1945 house are different products, so the typical sale price can move while the price of a square foot stays put. That is why I read the two together and then ask what your house offers that the sales did not measure.
Appraisal districts value property for tax purposes each year, while a buyer’s price is settled in the contract. Nothing on this page predicts an appraisal outcome.
Watters International Realty is a real estate brokerage and not a tax or legal adviser. Questions about your own appraised value, your homestead cap, whether to protest, a PID or MUD assessment on your lot, or what a bond election would do to your own tax bill belong with a tax professional, and the record for your specific parcel is held by the Milam Appraisal District (https://milamad.org). What WIR can tell you is what a buyer would pay.
The Milam Appraisal District record is where your parcel’s assessed value lives. A number for your house comes from a walkthrough, where someone looks at the roof, the street and the nearest listings. The scoreboard behind this page is on Where does Rockdale’s 76567 stand against Cameron, Thorndale and Taylor?
Condition and price decide it. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.
What you are competing with is on Does Cornerstone compete with your Rockdale house, or only the older homes?
A buyer in Rockdale may hold your house up against a Cornerstone home with a lower ask, and every figure above is a middle value across other houses. None of them knows your kitchen, your roof or your street.
Put to your house: as it stands this month, and next to the nearest listing, what would a buyer be willing to sign for?
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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.
Your appraised value and recent sold comps is where the market was yesterday. Tomorrow, the market is where your competition stands on price and features.
In Rockdale, the typical home for sale asks $252,400 today, or $149 a square foot.
Watters International Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage, and I am its broker of record. This page is based on Unlock MLS data analyzed on October 16, 2026. 11 homes sold by Watters International Realty in Rockdale (Unlock MLS, all time).
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