08/25/2026
DFW sellers pulled back on everything last week — and buyers kept right on closing.
Fewer homes hit the market (7,040, down 4.4%). Fewer sellers cut their price (9,511, down 8.4%). And yet closings rose 3.5% to 4,312 — the strongest week this month and the second straight weekly gain.
The full week ending August 25:
• New Listings: 7,040 (down 4.4%)
• Back on Market: 866 (up 3.1%)
• Price Reductions: 9,511 (down 8.4%)
• Active Option: 1,459 (down 3.2%)
• Pending: 4,061 (up 0.5%)
• Closed: 4,312 (up 3.5%)
Two things I want you to understand about this week.
First, some genuine good news for sellers. The quit rate improved. Last week 2,166 DFW listings were canceled, 631 expired and 439 were withdrawn — 3,236 homes that left the market without selling, against 4,312 that closed. That works out to about seven and a half sellers giving up for every ten sales, down from eight and a half the week before. Absorption improved too: nearly six of every ten new listings found a buyer, up from five and a half.
Second, the number almost nobody reads. Active option contracts fell 3.2% to 1,459. Those are accepted offers sitting in inspection right now — the front of the pipeline.
Closings are backward-looking. A home that closed last week went under contract 30 to 45 days ago, which means the strong closing week you’re reading about is really July’s news. Active option is the opposite end: it’s what closes next month. So the week behind us was strong, and the pipeline feeding September is thinner.
My take: this is a buyer’s market and it is not tightening. Sellers stepped back, buyers kept closing, and what’s under contract right now is a smaller number than what just delivered.
For buyers: fewer new listings cost you nothing. If anything, September should give you more room, not less.
For sellers: don’t read a strong closing week as a recovery. Those deals were signed in July. Price to what’s under contract now, not to the headline.
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Jay Singh Team
Keller Williams Realty Allen
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