Oak Ridge Home Values
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Oak Ridge Market Snapshot
| Active 16 listings | New 5 30 days | Closed 1 30 days | Pending 0 30 days | Supply 9.6 months | Absorption 0% monthly | Over List 0% sold above | Under List 69.7% sold below | Concessions 60.6% % of solds | Avg Concession $15,009 seller paid |
Source: NTREIS MLS • Excludes leases • Sep 2026
Oak Ridge Market Trends
Builder Inventory Crowds Out Resale in Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge is essentially a new-build community bolted onto Kaufman County ranchland. Riverside Homebuilders dominates active inventory with single-story plans on three-quarter to full-acre homesites, all emphasizing oversized kitchen islands, owner's suites tucked to the rear, and covered porches. No HOA governance means shops, outbuildings, and extended driveways are standard. Scattered among the production homes are custom builds with Tudor stone accents, scored concrete floors, and private ponds. The housing stock skews heavily post-2020, with very little resale inventory from before 2017.
Only eight homes closed in Oak Ridge this quarter, a sample thin enough to widen the confidence interval around any single figure — but the pace shift stands out regardless. Those sales closed in a median 49 days, less than half the trailing year's 134-day mark, based on MLS data for 2026-09 closings in Oak Ridge, and faster than Kaufman County's roughly 47-day median. Price per square foot eased to roughly $158, part of a trailing-year trend still running about 4% below last year's levels. Sellers kept giving ground at the table — well over three in five deals included a concession, averaging close to $15,600 — while still collecting close to 98 cents on the dollar at closing.
Oak Ridge's pending pipeline sits empty for a third straight month, with zero contracts working against twenty active listings. New listing activity stayed muted, adding just six homes to the pool this quarter — a fraction of Kaufman County's broader new-listing pace. Months of supply crept up to roughly seven and a half, edging closer to the county's own reading near eight, narrowing the tightness advantage Oak Ridge held earlier in the year. With so few contracts moving, the faster closing pace on the sales side has yet to show up in fresh pipeline activity.
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Only eight homes closed in Oak Ridge this quarter, a sample thin enough to widen the confidence interval around any single figure — but the pace shift stands out regardless. Those sales closed in a median 49 days, less than half the trailing year's 134-day mark, based on MLS data for 2026-09 closings in Oak Ridge, and faster than Kaufman County's roughly 47-day median. Price per square foot eased to roughly $158, part of a trailing-year trend still running about 4% below last year's levels. Sellers kept giving ground at the table — well over three in five deals included a concession, averaging close to $15,600 — while still collecting close to 98 cents on the dollar at closing.
Oak Ridge's pending pipeline sits empty for a third straight month, with zero contracts working against twenty active listings. New listing activity stayed muted, adding just six homes to the pool this quarter — a fraction of Kaufman County's broader new-listing pace. Months of supply crept up to roughly seven and a half, edging closer to the county's own reading near eight, narrowing the tightness advantage Oak Ridge held earlier in the year. With so few contracts moving, the faster closing pace on the sales side has yet to show up in fresh pipeline activity.
Down about 8% from the trailing-year mark, price per square foot in Oak Ridge settled near $189 this quarter, based on MLS data for 2026-08 closings in Oak Ridge, continuing the softening flagged last month. The bigger shift sits in timing: the eight homes that closed did so in about 66 days on average, roughly half the trailing-year pace of 131 days, extending the acceleration first noted in July. Sellers still gave ground — nearly two-thirds of deals included a concession, averaging close to $15,600 — yet collected close to 98 cents on the dollar, a notch above the trailing-year norm, suggesting homes that do sell are pricing more accurately from the outset.
For a second consecutive month, Oak Ridge's pending pipeline sits empty, with zero contracts working against sixteen active listings — the same standoff first flagged in July. New listing activity slowed further, adding just six homes to the pool this quarter versus a pace of roughly ten per quarter over the trailing year. Months of supply held at six, still comfortably tighter than Kaufman County's nearly nine, preserving a structural edge for local sellers even as deal flow shows no sign of restarting. The faster closing pace evident in recent sales has yet to translate into fresh pending activity.
Concession activity among Oak Ridge sellers rebounded this quarter after last month's pullback, with more than one in three closed transactions including a seller concession — still well short of Kaufman County's roughly two-in-three rate, based on MLS data for 2026-07 closings in Oak Ridge. With only eight sales in the trailing quarter, the swing carries wide confidence intervals, but sellers continued giving back close to four cents on the dollar at the table, in line with the county norm, while roughly three in five deals closed under list. Per-square-foot values settled near $177, down from the trailing year's roughly $208 mark, and average concession dollars held close to $15,000, little changed from the annual figure.
Oak Ridge's near-term pipeline complicates the seller story. Pending contracts fell to zero against sixteen active listings, the thinnest conversion signal in recent memory, even as new-listing activity arrived close to the trailing-year pace. Months of supply loosened to six — still comfortably tighter than Kaufman County's more than eight, preserving a structural edge for local sellers. Closing timelines quickened modestly, edging below the trailing-year average, suggesting homes that do move are moving faster even as the stalled pending count raises questions about near-term deal flow heading into fall.
While Kaufman County's broader market settled closings at roughly $300 per square foot, Oak Ridge recorded a median of about $216 per square foot over the trailing quarter — a notable premium that has persisted across the trailing year as well. Based on MLS data for 2026-06 closings in Oak Ridge, the seven transactions that did close reflected sellers giving back roughly five and a half cents on the dollar, with nearly nine in ten deals finishing below asking. The concession rate fell sharply compared to the prior period — dropping from about one in three to roughly one in four — suggesting some incremental firming even as buyers retained the upper hand. Median days on market ran to about 150, more than double the county-wide figure, underscoring that Oak Ridge homes take considerably longer to clear than the Kaufman average.
Oak Ridge's pipeline remains thin relative to its active supply. With 19 active listings and only 3 pending contracts, the absorption pace points toward continued buyer-favorable conditions heading into the next quarter. New listing activity added 11 homes against a single-digit pending pool, widening the already-extended supply gap. At roughly 8 months of supply — matching the county average — Oak Ridge is not an outlier on that metric, but the combination of slow velocity and a small transaction base means that conditions can shift materially with just a few additional contracts. The thin volume warrants caution in reading any single month's data as a definitive trend.
With only 6 closings in the trailing quarter, Oak Ridge, TX carries wide confidence intervals — but the completed-sale data tells a consistent story. Based on MLS data for recent closings in Oak Ridge, buyers negotiated from a position of clear advantage: sellers received roughly 94 and a half cents on the dollar at closing, and more than four in five transactions closed below asking. The concession rate among closed deals ran at about one in three, with sellers contributing roughly $12,500 on average. Price per square foot came in around $211, essentially flat with the trailing-year average, while the median closed price of roughly $485,000 sits meaningfully above the annual baseline — a reflection of the small sample rather than a sustained shift.
With 8.5 months of supply and only 3 pending contracts against 17 active listings, Oak Ridge's pipeline strongly favors buyers heading into the near term. New listing activity added 10 homes to the pool against just a handful of pending agreements, further widening the absorption gap. The limited transaction volume in this small market makes definitive signals difficult — Kaufman County's broader supply picture, at nearly 10 months, suggests the slack-demand environment extends well beyond Oak Ridge and is unlikely to resolve quickly.
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Market data last updated Oct 1, 2026, 6:00 AM CDT · Editorial updated Sep 23, 2026, 11:31 PM CDT
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