75231 Home Values
75231 Market Snapshot
| Active 207 listings | New 40 30 days | Closed 20 30 days | Pending 5 30 days | Supply 9.3 months | Absorption 3.9% monthly | Over List 0.8% sold above | Under List 46% sold below | Concessions 37.7% % of solds | Avg Concession $8,330 seller paid |
Source: NTREIS MLS • Excludes leases • Sep 2026
75231 Market Trends
Lake Highlands Buyers Hold the Cards
The 75231 housing stock splits into two distinct worlds. West of Greenville Avenue, Merriman Park and its surrounding streets serve up mid-century ranches on generous lots, mostly three-bedroom brick homes from the late 1950s through the 1970s that have been heavily renovated. East toward Midtown Park, newer gated townhome communities like Merion bring multi-story contemporary builds on compact lots. Sprinkled throughout are condo complexes from the early 1980s near Royal Lane and Skillman.
Nearly half of 75231 closed sales landed below asking this quarter, while barely any cleared above it, leaving buyers steady room to negotiate. Based on MLS data for 2026-09 closings in 75231, sellers received roughly ninety-five and a half cents on the dollar, and concessions appeared in about a third of deals, averaging around $4,000, well under the near-$7,700 average across the trailing year. Price per square foot near $275 held above the annual baseline of about $265, and the median sale price of roughly $619,000 sat well above the roughly $546,000 annual figure. With seventy closings, the pattern is directional rather than definitive.
Supply in 75231 stayed heavy relative to demand: about 190 active listings sat against fewer than ten pending contracts, and months of supply near eight remained above Dallas County's roughly six and a half to seven. New listings, near 125 for the quarter, again outran contracts by a wide margin, though both active inventory and listing pace eased modestly from last month. Median time on market stretched slightly to roughly four weeks, a small step back from August's faster pace, keeping the pipeline tilted toward buyers heading into the fall.
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Nearly half of 75231 closed sales landed below asking this quarter, while barely any cleared above it, leaving buyers steady room to negotiate. Based on MLS data for 2026-09 closings in 75231, sellers received roughly ninety-five and a half cents on the dollar, and concessions appeared in about a third of deals, averaging around $4,000, well under the near-$7,700 average across the trailing year. Price per square foot near $275 held above the annual baseline of about $265, and the median sale price of roughly $619,000 sat well above the roughly $546,000 annual figure. With seventy closings, the pattern is directional rather than definitive.
Supply in 75231 stayed heavy relative to demand: about 190 active listings sat against fewer than ten pending contracts, and months of supply near eight remained above Dallas County's roughly six and a half to seven. New listings, near 125 for the quarter, again outran contracts by a wide margin, though both active inventory and listing pace eased modestly from last month. Median time on market stretched slightly to roughly four weeks, a small step back from August's faster pace, keeping the pipeline tilted toward buyers heading into the fall.
Time on closed sales in 75231 compressed to roughly twenty-six days this quarter, continuing a pickup flagged last month and now faster than Dallas County's broader median near twenty-seven days. Based on MLS data for 2026-08 closings in 75231, price per square foot held near $270, a modest step up from the trailing 12-month baseline near $261, while the quarter's median sale price of roughly $622,000 sat well above the annual figure near $526,000. Sellers received close to ninety-seven cents on the dollar, and concessions appeared in roughly three in ten sales, down from nearly four in ten across the trailing year, with no closings clearing above list. The quarter's seventy-plus closings keep the shift directional rather than definitive.
The pipeline tells a quieter story than the closing pace above: with only about ten homes pending against 204 active listings, absorption in 75231 lags noticeably behind Dallas County's broader pending-to-active ratio. New listings, near 135 for the quarter, continued to outnumber pending contracts by a wide margin, and months of supply near 8.3 remains well above the county's roughly 6.5. The faster closing timelines have not yet translated into a tighter pipeline, a gap worth watching as fall approaches.
While Dallas County closings settled near $206 per square foot in the latest quarter, 75231 cleared better than a third higher. Based on MLS data for 2026-07 closings in 75231, the median sale price near $560,000 also ran roughly half again above the countywide figure. Sellers in the zip gave back slightly more ground at the table than their county counterparts, closing near 96 cents on the dollar against a county rate closer to 98. Concessions showed up in just under a third of 75231's closings, well below the county's near-half rate, and no transactions cleared above list this quarter. Year-over-year, sale prices in the zip remain up by double digits, keeping the premium over county pricing intact.
The pipeline in 75231 carries more slack than the county overall: months of supply near 8.3 sit well above Dallas County's roughly 6.4, even as the zip's price premium holds. Active listings in the zip numbered near 219 against about 28 pending contracts, a thinner absorption ratio than the county's broader pipeline. New listings during the quarter, near 167, continued to build faster than pending contracts could absorb, widening the local supply cushion relative to county conditions. Time-to-contract has also compressed versus the trailing annual pace, a velocity signal running counter to the still-elevated supply overhang.
The negotiation gap in 75231 narrowed measurably this quarter, though buyers retained meaningful ground at closing. Based on MLS data for 2026-06 closings in 75231, roughly four in ten completed sales came in below list — down from nearly half the prior period, but still a sizable share in a zip where no transactions cleared above asking. Sellers received about 96 cents on the dollar, a modest improvement over the trailing-year average, while the share of deals with concessions declined to roughly a third of all closings. When sellers did offer relief, it averaged just under ,000 — a pullback from the prior period's roughly ,000. Price per square foot climbed to approximately 89, up from 55 in the annual baseline, placing 75231 well above county-level values even as buyers continued extracting below-list closes.
Months of supply in 75231 fell to roughly 7.5 — a notable retreat from the double-digit readings in the trailing annual window — yet the pipeline geometry still favors patience for buyers. Active listings held near 195 homes against only about 54 pending contracts, a ratio of roughly one pending for every 3.5 actives. New listing activity added approximately 158 homes during the period, outpacing pending demand by nearly three-to-one. While the supply overhang is compressing, absorption has not yet caught up, and the month-of-supply reading still sits above the county benchmark of roughly 6.3 months.
Price per square foot in 75231 runs roughly 42 percent above the Dallas County median, based on MLS data for recent closings in the zip — a premium that persists even as overall transaction volume remains modest. Completed sales show sellers receiving about 95 to 96 cents on the dollar at closing, a gap notably wider than the county benchmark of roughly 97 cents. Fewer than four in ten closed transactions included seller concessions, a lower rate than the county-wide average of nearly half of all deals, yet the average concession when offered approached $6,000 — suggesting targeted rather than broad relief. Year-over-year, sale prices in 75231 have risen by more than ten percent, outpacing the countywide trajectory on a percentage basis.
The ratio of pending contracts to active listings in 75231 sits well below one-to-one, with roughly 51 pending transactions against 175 active listings — a posture that mirrors Dallas County's broader supply-heavy conditions but signals limited near-term absorption pressure at the premium tier. New listing activity during the period added approximately 141 homes, outpacing the pending pipeline by a factor of nearly three. Months of supply in 75231 slightly exceeds the county average, indicating that the elevated pricing tier is absorbing supply at a pace comparable to — but not faster than — the broader Dallas market.
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Market data last updated Oct 1, 2026, 6:00 AM CDT · Editorial updated Sep 28, 2026, 7:28 PM CDT
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