Why isn’t my Manor house selling? What to check before you blame the market
Quick answer
Start with the first price. In Manor’s ZIP code, 111 listings failed to sell over the last ninety days, meaning they expired or were withdrawn. Most of the homes that did sell closed below the price they first listed at, and the drop in failed listings since last year came almost entirely from builders.
What we analyzed
- 111 listings in ZIP 78653 expired or were withdrawn in the 90 days ending October 1, 2026, 41 expired and 70 withdrawn
- 140 homes sold in the same 90 days
- Listings that failed to sell in the 90 days, against the same 90 days in 2025, resale and new build counted separately
- Listings that failed to sell over the 180 days ending October 2, 2026
Sources: Unlock MLS, pulled October 2, 2026.
124 Manor 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 the Manor, TX market report, and every number on this page is also broken out in the tables on the Manor ZIP code scoreboard.
Last updated October 3, 2026. Sales data covers the 90 days ending October 1, 2026 and the twelve months ending the same day (Unlock MLS via MLS Grid); listing inventory as of October 2, 2026.
Why isn’t my Manor house selling?
I hear this from sellers who listed once and, after a few weeks, let the listing expire or took the house off the market. In Manor’s ZIP code that happened to 111 listings over the last ninety days. The split between expired and withdrawn is in the table further down.
Counted as a share of every listing that sold, expired or was withdrawn, 44.2% of the ZIP’s listings failed to sell, against 39.0% for the Austin metro. A listing fails to sell when it expires or is withdrawn instead of closing.
Did fewer listings fail to sell this year?
The total did fall, 111 against 172 in the same ninety days a year earlier. Almost all of that drop is builder product.
Table 1. Listings that failed to sell in 78653, 90 days ending October 1, 2026 against the same 90 days in 2025. Failed to sell means the listing expired or was withdrawn; the share is of every listing of that type that sold, expired or was withdrawn. Resale and new build are counted separately. Source: Unlock MLS, pulled October 2, 2026.
| Listings | Failed to sell, 90 days ending Oct 1, 2026 | Same 90 days, 2025 | Share, this year | Share, last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resale | 96 (30 expired, 66 withdrawn) | 95 (33 expired, 62 withdrawn) | 57.1% | 56.9% |
| New build | 15 | 77 | 18.1% | 51.3% |
| All listings | 111 (41 expired, 70 withdrawn) | 172 | 44.2% | 54.3% |
Resale listings that failed to sell held flat, 96 against 95 a year earlier.
New-build listings that failed to sell fell from 77 to 15. For a resale owner, the number that matters is the flat one.
What do homes that fail to sell have in common?
Here is what I tell sellers who were told it was the market.
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. The homes that sold in this ZIP in the same ninety days sold at metro speed. 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.
The homes that sold in the last ninety days took a median 56 days to go under contract, against 53 for the metro.
Most of them, 117 of the 140, closed below the price they first listed at.
What happens to a listing after it fails to sell?
Over the last six months, 214 listings failed to sell in the ZIP, and 155 of those are not back on the market or sold since. The table has the dates and the definitions.
Table 2. Listings that failed to sell in 78653 over the 180 days from April 6 to October 2, 2026. This period ends one day after the 90-day tables on this page, so its counts do not add to them. A count of listings is not a count of homes, because some homes failed to sell more than once. Not back on the market or sold since means no later listing at the same address is active, under contract, pending or closed. Source: Unlock MLS, pulled October 2, 2026.
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Listings that failed to sell | 214 (84 expired, 130 withdrawn) |
| Resale / new build | 167 / 47 |
| Addresses those listings cover | 184 |
| Listings not back on the market or sold since | 155 (142 resale, 13 new build) |
Those 155 are listings, not owners, and some homes failed more than once. A failed attempt does not end the wish to sell. If one of those listings was yours, the useful question is what the first attempt got wrong. Whether to try again now is on Should you sell your Manor home now, or wait?
How do I fix a listing that isn’t selling?
I start with the first price. Then I look at how the listing reached buyers, and then at what a buyer saw when they compared it with the finished homes nearby. What decides how fast a home sells is on How long does it take to sell a home in Manor?. What to spend before relisting is on How much should you spend fixing up your Manor home before selling?, and whether to cut the price is on Do you have to cut your price to compete with Manor’s builders?
Is it the market, or is it your listing?
It points to your listing when homes at your size and price sold in the same ninety days, because buyers were buying at that price. It points to the market when few homes near your price sold at all. Run your address to see which side you are on.
The ZIP reads balanced overall, and your price range can read as a buyer’s market. A range with few sales tells you less than the ZIP does, so I look at your range first.
Your situation
If your listing expired or you took it off the market, you know what the first price brought. The next question is which homes a buyer saw beside yours, and how your home compared with them.
The report below shows those homes for your address, so you can see the comparison a buyer made.
Before You Put Your Home on the Market, See the Homes You’ll Have to Beat
If your home did not sell, or you are afraid it will not, start by seeing the homes a buyer compared with yours. Request my complimentary Home Competitor Analysis for your address. You get:
- The homes currently competing for buyers in your area
- What they’re asking
- How long they’ve been sitting on the market
- Which homes have already reduced their price
- How your home may compare
Your report arrives instantly as a PDF, and someone from my team will call you within 24 hours to walk through it.
No obligation. The report shows the homes competing with yours. It does not include a price opinion or a valuation, and nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome. 124 homes sold by Watters International Realty in 78653 (Unlock MLS, all time).About Watters International Realty in Manor
Watters International Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage, and I am its broker of record. 124 homes sold by Watters International Realty in 78653 (Unlock MLS, all time).
See the homes you’d be competing against
The report shows the competing listings near you and how fast homes like yours have been selling. A walkthrough comes before any pricing talk.
Your report arrives instantly as a PDF, and someone from my team will call you within 24 hours to walk through it.
No obligation. The report shows the homes competing with yours. It does not include a price opinion or a valuation, and nothing here promises a price, a timeline, or an outcome.More for Manor sellers
- What the Manor housing market looks like for sellers
- How is the Manor ZIP code market doing?
- How long does it take to sell a home in Manor?
- How much should you spend fixing up your Manor home before selling?
- What is your Manor home competing against?
- Do you have to cut your price to compete with Manor’s builders?
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