Per square foot, yes: in Sonterra, Jarrell, resales sold for $139 a square foot in the three months ending October 15, 2026, against $151 for new builds. Both kinds closed at a buyer’s market share of original asking, and your own price point may sit in a different market. In my read, a resale seller here prices against new builds and other resales at once.
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 16, 2026.
70 Jarrell 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. That includes 50 in Sonterra.
Every number on this page covers Sonterra only. What the Jarrell market as a whole means for a seller is on Selling in Jarrell, TX? What the market looks like before listing.
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.
Sonterra reads as a buyer’s market for the subdivision as a whole: homes closed at 92.3% of original asking in the last three months, below the 94% line. The ranges further down show where it reads differently.
Price per square foot is lower than a year ago, $145 over the past twelve months against $161 in the twelve months before.
The last three months agree, at $146 a square foot against $158 in the same three months last year.
The median sale price came down with it, $250,000 in the last three months against $259,990 in the same months last year. Where your own number lands is on What is your Jarrell home worth when a new build is down the street?
Table 1. Sonterra beside Jarrell as a whole, 90 days and twelve months ending October 15, 2026. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Measure | Sonterra, 90 days | Jarrell, 90 days | Sonterra, twelve months | Jarrell, twelve months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homes sold | 68 | 193 | 268 | 694 |
| Median sale price | $250,000 | $250,000 | $255,000 | $259,990 |
| Median days on market | 67 days | 58 days | 77 days | 67 days |
| Share of original asking price | 92.3% | 94.3% | 92.7% | 94.1% |
| Price per square foot (median) | $146 | $148 | $145 | $150 |
A square foot sold for $146 in Sonterra and $148 in Jarrell as a whole, so the subdivision sits almost level with the town.
Sonterra has a real resale record. About two in three of the homes that closed in the last three months were new builds, and the rest were resales.
A resale closed at $139 a square foot, against $151 for a new build.
Resales kept slightly more of their first asking price, 92.6% against 92.0% for new builds. In my read, a gap that small does not give a resale seller room to price above the new builds.
None of the homes that closed was built before 2000, so a seller with a house built before 2000 has no closed sale of that age to point to.
More than half of the homes for sale in Sonterra are priced below where they started, and builders list about half of all the homes for sale.
Table 2. Builder listings in Sonterra by builder name on the MLS record, as of October 16, 2026; 66 builder listings of 133 homes for sale. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Builder | Listings | Asking range | Median asking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lennar | 16 | $187,499 to $236,999 | $196,499 |
| Century Communities | 12 | $249,990 to $299,990 | $269,990 |
| D.R. Horton | 10 | $209,900 to $241,210 | $225,250 |
| LGI Homes | 7 | $250,900 to $350,900 | $295,900 |
| Empire Homes | 6 | $254,990 to $313,990 | $269,490 |
| Castle Rock Communities | 4 | $281,425 to $307,330 | $290,778 |
| Centex Homes | 3 | $277,234 to $313,330 | $298,310 |
| Starlight Homes | 3 | $214,052 to $238,240 | $223,712 |
| Centex | 2 | $270,670 to $277,385 | $274,028 |
| KB Home | 2 | $229,769 to $293,420 | $261,594 |
Eleven builder names appear on the MLS record, and the table shows the top ones. Lennar lists the most, then Century Communities and D.R. Horton, and resale listings make up the other half.
Builder listings ask a median $255,445 and resale listings a median $249,500, so a resale competes at nearly the same asking number.
Which builder a buyer sees first, and what it asks, is laid out on Which homes will a buyer tour the same day as yours in Jarrell?
Three ranges had 10 or more sales in the last three months, and they do not read alike.
Table 3. Sonterra homes by price range. Sales are from the 90 days ending October 15, 2026; homes for sale are as of October 16, 2026. A range is a seller’s market when homes sell for at least 97% of their original asking price, balanced from 94% to 97%, and a buyer’s market below 94%. Each reading is for that price range only; a different price point changes which market a home is in. Only price ranges with at least 10 sales in the last 90 days are shown. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Price range | Sold | Median sale price | For sale | New builds for sale | Homes that cut their price | Months of supply | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $200,000 to $249,999 | 27 | $210,499 | 50 | 23 | 33 | 5.6 | buyer’s market |
| $250,000 to $299,999 | 28 | $261,500 | 40 | 18 | 19 | 4.3 | balanced |
| $300,000 to $349,999 | 12 | $289,260 | 36 | 22 | 29 | 9.0 | buyer’s market |
The $250,000 to $299,999 range reads balanced for that range, the only one of the three that does.
The $200,000 to $249,999 range reads as a buyer’s market for that range, with the most homes for sale of the three.
The $300,000 to $349,999 range also reads as a buyer’s market for that range, and its homes took the longest to go under contract.
Fewer than ten homes sold in the other ranges, so I read them on the twelve-month basis. The $150,000 to $199,999 range reads as a seller’s market on that basis, for that range alone.
The $350,000 to $399,999 range reads as a buyer’s market on the same basis, for that range alone. How the ranges change the sell-now-or-wait answer is on Should you sell your Jarrell home now, or wait?
The MLS folds several community names into Sonterra, including Cool Water and Eastwood at Sonterra. The table shows how many homes closed in each over the past twelve months and the median year they were built; it also prints Sonterra West separately, and those sales are not in this page’s figures.
Table 4. Sonterra subdivisions by closings in the twelve months ending October 15, 2026, with the median build year of what sold and the count for sale as of October 16, 2026. Source: Unlock MLS.
| Subdivision (MLS name) | Sold, twelve months | Median sale price | Median build year | For sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonterra | 71 | $278,900 | 2025 | 27 |
| Cool Water | 41 | $239,990 | 2025 | 27 |
| Eastwood at Sonterra | 34 | $285,495 | 2026 | 14 |
| Cool Water at Sonterra | 24 | $213,494 | 2026 | 16 |
| Sonterra West | 20 | $267,500 | 2019 | 6 |
| Cool Water Ph 2 | 12 | $272,400 | 2023 | 9 |
| Sonterra Sec 13 | 5 | $260,000 | 2021 | 1 |
| Cool Water Ph 5 Secs 3 & 4 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Sonterra West Sec 08-C | 4 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Sonterra West Sec 07-A Ph 01 A | 3 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
The typical home that sold in Cool Water and Eastwood at Sonterra was built in 2025 or 2026, so those are builder communities.
A seller in a builder community starts from different comparisons than a seller of an older house, and the table lets you find your own. The town-wide numbers are on Selling in Jarrell, TX? What the market looks like before listing.
Sonterra reads as a buyer’s market overall for the last three months, and the ranges split. If that is you, the fastest way to know is to run your address.
A Sonterra seller lists beside Lennar, Century Communities and D.R. Horton homes, and beside other resales asking nearly the same median price. A buyer weighs all of them in one afternoon.
For your home, then: at the price you would open at, is your buyer’s other tour a new Lennar house or another resale, and which of the two is priced below you?
If you worry a new Lennar or Century Communities listing will pull buyers past your resale, start by seeing which Sonterra homes a buyer would compare it with. Request my complimentary Home Competitor Analysis for your address. You get:
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