Kemp Home Values

Price per square foot in Kemp landed at roughly $159 this quarter, within a couple percent of Kaufman County's own $156 median — a level of parity in valuation that belies wider gaps everywhere else in the closed-sale data. Sellers here collected close to 99 cents on every dollar asked, outpacing the county's roughly 96-cent average, even as barely more than a third of Kemp's closings carried a concession versus nearly seven in ten countywide. Closings also took just over two weeks longer to finalize than the county's pace. Based on MLS data for 2026-09 closings in Kemp, the 41-transaction sample remains directional rather than definitive.

Kemp's pipeline reflects a wider imbalance than Kaufman County's overall market: months of available supply here run close to double the county's own reading, and pending contracts represent a thinner slice of active listings than the countywide ratio. New listings are entering at a comparatively slower clip relative to Kemp's existing active inventory than they are countywide, tempering — but not resolving — the gap. The divergence points to a market absorbing new supply more slowly than its parent county even as available listings pile up locally.

Closings in Kemp cleared faster this quarter, with days on market at closing settling near 47 — down from the roughly 56-day pace embedded in the trailing annual figures. Price per square foot, the more reliable valuation read, priced out near $171, a step up from about $162 across the trailing year. Sellers received close to 98 cents on every dollar asked, and almost a third of closed sales carried a concession, up from roughly a quarter last month, though the average payout held near $9,500. Based on MLS data for 2026-08 closings in Kemp, the 46-transaction sample stays thin enough that the faster pace should be read directionally rather than as a settled trend.

Pending contracts in Kemp thinned out this quarter, running well below the pace embedded in the trailing annual figures, even as new listing volume eased only modestly from its year-long rate. Faster closings — reflected in the shorter days-on-market read — haven't yet translated into a deeper pipeline of contracts waiting to close. Months of available supply eased slightly from the annual figure but remains well above Kaufman County's own reading, suggesting the slower pending pace in Kemp reflects softer demand rather than a shrinking backlog of listings.

While Kaufman County's price per square foot held effectively flat against Kemp's own $162 median this quarter, the two markets are pulling apart everywhere else. Based on MLS data for 2026-07 closings in Kemp, roughly a quarter of closed sales still carried a concession, a rate barely a third of the county's roughly two-in-three share — sellers here are giving back less, even as the broader county negotiates harder. Nothing sold above list again this quarter, continuing the pattern from June, while the share closing below asking eased to roughly thirty-seven percent from about half. With just over fifty closings, the sample is thinner than the county's, so the comparison should be read directionally rather than definitively.

Trailing Kaufman County's new-listing pace relative to active stock, Kemp's pipeline is absorbing pending contracts at a rate only modestly slower than the county's own. Months of available supply here run roughly four months longer than the county benchmark — a gap the pipeline confirms rather than resolves. Active listings continue to outnumber pending contracts by a wide margin, though not dramatically wider than Kaufman County's own imbalance, suggesting Kemp is riding the same regional overhang rather than facing a uniquely local one. The slower new-listing pace offers a partial brake against further buildup.