New Waverly had more listings and more sales in motion
The number that stands out most in New Waverly right now is pending sales. The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 34 homes under contract in the three months ending August 31, 2026. That is up 142.9% from the same months a year before. Buyers are still stepping forward, and that matters if you are thinking about selling.
More homes came to market too. The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 45 homes for sale in New Waverly, up 73.1% from a year before. New listings reached 28, up 64.7%. If you are buying in New Waverly, you have more to look at now than you did last year.
Homes that did sell in New Waverly closed at a median of $387,000, according to the Real Estate Data Aggregator. That is down 5.1% from the same period last year. Sellers got back 93.9% of their list price on average, down 2.9 points from a year before. Pricing carefully from the start makes a real difference in a market like this.
One number to watch: the Real Estate Data Aggregator put the median days on market in New Waverly at 132 days. That is 57 days longer than the same period a year before. Homes are taking more time. That is not unusual given how much more supply has entered the market.
How Willis compares
Willis is a larger market. The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 194 homes sold and 441 for sale in the three months ending August 31, 2026. The median sale price there was $329,995, down 2.4% from a year before. Pending sales came in at 208, up 7.8%. Homes sat on the market a median of 85 days, which is 11 days longer than the year before.
South Huntsville
The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 60 homes sold in South Huntsville in the three months ending August 31, 2026, down 11.8% from a year before. The median sale price was $296,200, up 2.1%. Pending sales came in at 62, down 7.5%. Homes took a median of 88 days to sell, 23 days longer than the year before.
The three markets together
Across Willis, New Waverly, and South Huntsville combined, the Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 272 homes sold in the three months ending August 31, 2026, down 1.8% from a year before. Pending sales across all three reached 304, up 10.9%. Homes for sale totaled 620, up 7.3%. New listings came in at 401, down 7.2%.
What the wider picture says
Mortgage rates are a factor for every buyer right now. CNBC reported the average contract rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage with a conforming loan balance rose to 7.49% as of the week ending October 7, 2026. Realtor.com reported rates topped 7% in September 2026. That affects how much buyers can borrow, and it shapes how long homes take to sell.
Realtor.com also reported the South region's median list price was $379,000 in September 2026, and that homes in the South region sat on the market a median of 68 days. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported U.S. house prices rose 2.6% from July 2025 to July 2026, and 0.3% from June to July 2026 on a seasonally adjusted basis.
| Willis | New Waverly | South Huntsville | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $329,995 | $387,000 | $296,200 |
| Homes sold | 194 | 18 | 60 |
| Median days on market | 85 | 132 | 88 |
| Sale to list price | 97.3% | 93.9% | 95.5% |
| Months of supply | 7 | 7.7 | 6.8 |
- New Waverly had the sharpest jump in both listings and pending sales.
- Willis handled the most volume.
- South Huntsville saw the only price gain of the three.
- Across all three markets, buyers are still making moves, even as homes take longer to sell than they did a year ago.
- One street can read very differently from the ZIP code as a whole, so the numbers above are a starting point, not the whole story for your home.
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Text me- Real Estate Data Aggregator numbers for ZIPs 77318, 77358 and 77340, the three months ending August 31, 2026, compared with the same months of 2025. Real Estate Data Aggregator last updated them on Oct 7, 2026.
- Realtor.com: September 2026 Monthly Housing Trends: Price Cuts Hit 4-Year Highs as Mortgage Rates Top 7%, Sep 30, 2026
- Federal Housing Finance Agency: FHFA House Price Index® Up 0.3 Percent in July; Up 2.6 Percent from Last Year | FHFA, Sep 29, 2026
- Redfin: Soft September Jobs Report May Give Fed Reason to Pause Rate Hikes, Slowing Ascent of Mortgage Rates, Oct 2, 2026
- Realtor.com: August 2026 Rental Report: Rents Fall for 37th Straight Month as Concessions Give Renters More Leverage, Sep 17, 2026
- CNBC: Refinance demand is now half what it was a year ago, as mortgage rates rise again, Oct 7, 2026