8/15-8/22 Howe Real Estate Report: 135 Listings, Sale Price Down 20.7%
Realtor.com counted 135 Howe, TX homes for sale as of August 2026, while Redfin reported 22 homes sold in May 2026 and a median sale price of $232,860.
Garrett Pruitt
August 22, 2026/2 min read
Howe housing market. Illustration: Jake Team LLC
This weekly housing report covers Howe, TX, in the Sherman-Denison region for howe.city. It uses Realtor.com local-market data, Zillow home-value data, Redfin's May 2026 housing-market data and Freddie Mac's weekly mortgage survey. Nearby city sites in the network include Van Alstyne, Sherman, Denison, Gunter and Tom Bean.
Realtor.com counted 135 homes for sale in Howe as of August 2026. The average home value was $245,868, down 7.9% from a year earlier, and Realtor.com listed the median asking price at $429,250.
Redfin's May 2026 market page reported 22 homes sold, compared with 26 a year earlier. Redfin's median sale price was $232,860, down 20.7% from a year earlier, and average days on market were 63 days, compared with 128 days last year.
Market snapshot charts
The three charts below break out inventory and sales counts, average days on market and the published price measures.
Howe listings and sales chart. Realtor.com active listings as of August 2026, Redfin homes sold in May 2026.Howe average days on market chart. Realtor.com August 2026 versus the year-earlier figure.Howe price metrics chart. Realtor.com median list price, Redfin median sale price, and Zillow average home value where published.
By the numbers
Realtor.com listed the median list price at $429,250 as of August 2026. Redfin's median sale price was $232,860 in May 2026. Zillow's average home value was $245,868. Realtor.com reported average days on market at 65 days in August 2026.
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey put the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.65% as of August 20, 2026, down from 6.67% a week earlier and below 6.58% a year earlier.
What changed from last year
Redfin's year-over-year sales count decreased from 26 to 22. Realtor.com average days on market fell from about 66 days to 65 days. Redfin's median sale price was down 20.7% from a year earlier.
Realtor.com's August 2026 inventory figure and Redfin's May 2026 sold-home figure measure different parts of the market: active supply versus closed transactions. This report keeps those figures separate because they do not describe the same set of homes.
Signed minutes from the Aug. 18 council meeting, posted Tuesday, record a unanimous vote on an agreement letting ICE hand certain immigration enforcement duties to trained Howe police officers.
The 2026-27 budget the city posted Oct. 1 totals about $9 million in spending. A state law tied to a late audit required the no-new-revenue tax rate of about 46.8 cents per $100.
PepsiCo is recalling 122,021 cases of four 28-ounce Gatorade flavors because labels did not list Yellow No. 5 or No. 6 dyes. Texas is among 37 states that received them.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened a formal investigation into UnitedHealth Group, issuing Civil Investigative Demands under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act over alleged deceptive coverage denials, nursing home delays, and improper prior-authorization revocations.
A federal judge in El Paso has granted a preliminary injunction temporarily halting border barrier construction and ground-clearing activity across the Big Bend region of West Texas.
