The Rio Grande Valley housing market saw 563 single-family home sales in September across the two metro areas, down 4.7% year over year, according to the most recent REALTOR data compiled by the Texas A&M University Real Estate Center.
Total sales across the two metro areas through September were about 5% higher than last year, with about 5,400 homes sold in 2026.
The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metro saw about 8% fewer home sales in September compared to last year, and sales were flat in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area.
In the McAllen metro, there were 333 homes sold in September, down from 361 in September 2025, according to REALTOR data. Year-to-date sales reached 3,294, up 6.4% from the same period last year.
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza
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Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza is a versatile multimedia news reporter who lives and works along the Texas-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. Mosbrucker-Garza is a news reporter for the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. During her career she's worked for the McAllen Monitor, San Antonio Business Journal, The Advocate Newspaper in Louisiana, Phoenix New Times, and public media outlets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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