Collin County median listing price slips to $517,500

Asking prices in Collin and Denton counties are slightly lower than a year ago and far below their 2022 highs. That gives buyers in the northern suburbs a little more leverage than they had at the top of the market.

In Collin County, the median listing price was $517,500 in September 2026. That is down 1.0% from $522,500 in September 2025.

In Denton County, the median listing price was $472,495, down 0.4% from a year earlier. The typical asking price in both counties is close to where it stood last fall.

Together, Collin and Denton counties cover much of the northern Metroplex, from Plano and Frisco to Prosper. They also include parts of the city of Dallas.

Far below the 2022 peak

The bigger drop is measured from the top. Collin County's median listing price peaked at $621,888 in 2022. September's figure is 16.8% below that high.

Denton County followed a similar path. Its median listing price also peaked in 2022, at $548,937. It now sits 13.9% below that mark.

Collin's asking prices are still higher than Denton's, but they have fallen further from the top. Both counties rose and cooled along similar lines.

That gap from the peak matters most for people who bought near it. A housing analyst quoted by Dallas Express said some sellers in Frisco, Prosper and Plano are taking losses on homes bought near the peak of 2022 and 2023 (dallasexpress.com).

The same analyst called the area's current year-over-year correction its largest since at least 2000 (dallasexpress.com). Listing prices track what sellers ask. They can move differently from measures of what homes sell for or are worth.

Listings are no longer piling up

Supply in Collin County has built up over several years, but it did not keep growing this year. The county had 4,951 active listings in September 2026, down 0.5% from a year earlier.

That count is still 8.5% higher than in September 2019. Buyers have more homes to choose from than they did before prices took off, but not more than last fall.

Sellers also put 1,420 new listings on the market in Collin County in September. That is the flow of fresh homes buyers saw as the fall market opened.

So the answer to whether listings are still stacking up in Collin County is no. Inventory sits above its September 2019 level but slipped slightly from a year ago.

Realtor reports for the wider region point in a similar direction. MetroTex Association of Realtors reported North Texas active listings down from a year earlier (mymetrotex.com). Pending sales fell year over year, and new listings fell as well (mymetrotex.com).

In that same MetroTex report, the regional median sales price held unchanged (mymetrotex.com). Across North Texas, fewer buyers and fewer sellers are stepping in, and prices are holding roughly level.

Why demand cooled

Higher mortgage rates and more homes for sale have softened demand in a market that favored sellers in recent years, according to a Dallas Express report (dallasexpress.com).

Local Realtors describe the shift as a return to normal. The Greater Denton/Wise County Association of Realtors said inventory was continuing to expand across North Texas, moving away from the ultra-tight conditions of prior years (gdwcar.com).

The group called the market more normalized, a market where well-priced homes continue to attract buyer interest (gdwcar.com).

For buyers, asking prices well below the 2022 high may leave more room to bargain than at the peak. Prices that are slightly lower than last year mean sellers are not gaining ground.

For sellers, the message from Realtors is that price matters. Homes listed at the right number still draw interest, according to the Denton-area Realtors group (gdwcar.com).

That mix — slightly lower asking prices and roughly flat supply — does not clearly favor either side. It looks more like a market where buyers and sellers are both waiting.

Next to watch: the October listing data, due in the next monthly update. It will show whether Collin's active listings keep slipping and whether asking prices in either county move further from last year's levels as the fall market goes on.

How we did this

We used monthly county-level data on median listing prices, active listings and new listings for Collin and Denton counties, available from July 2016 onward. We compared September 2026 with September 2025 to avoid seasonal swings, measured each county's current price against its series peak, and compared Collin County's active listings with September 2019.

Median listing price: The middle asking price among homes listed for sale in a month. As many listings ask more as ask less. Active listings: Homes listed for sale during the month that have not gone under contract or been taken off the market. New listings: Homes newly put up for sale during the month. Pending sales: Homes that have gone under contract but have not yet closed.

Limitations

• Listing prices are what sellers ask, not what homes sell for. Final sale prices can be higher or lower.
• The figures are not seasonally adjusted, so we compare the same month across years rather than month to month.
• County medians blend many cities and neighborhoods. Prices in Frisco, Plano or Denton may differ from the county figure.
• Active and new listing counts were available here only for Collin County, not Denton County.
• Figures cited from Dallas Express, MetroTex Association of Realtors and the Greater Denton/Wise County Association of Realtors may use different measures, areas and time periods than our listing data.
• This data shows what changed, not why. Explanations come from the cited reports.
• Recent monthly listing figures can be revised in later releases.

Sources

• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED): Housing Inventory: Median Listing Price in Collin County, TX, latest period September 2026, released Oct. 1, 2026; retrieved Oct. 12, 2026. Data
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED): Housing Inventory: Median Listing Price in Denton County, TX, latest period September 2026, released Oct. 1, 2026; retrieved Oct. 12, 2026. Data
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED): Housing Inventory: Active Listing Count in Collin County, TX, latest period September 2026, released Oct. 1, 2026; retrieved Oct. 12, 2026. Data
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED): Housing Inventory: New Listing Count in Collin County, TX, latest period September 2026, released Oct. 1, 2026; retrieved Oct. 12, 2026. Data