The story of this market
The typical home in College Station, Texas sells for about $350,000, or $184 per square foot.
Prices are down 4.2% from a year ago, which gives buyers more room to negotiate. Homes take about 65 days to sell, which is slow. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,650 a month.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+1.1%
TX · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
College Station, Texas
College Station has transitioned into a more balanced, buyer-friendly housing market as rising inventory and elevated mortgage rates softened buyer demand throughout mid-2026. Active inventory has surged nearly 30% year-over-year while homes are lingering on market for longer stretches, prompting roughly a third of active sellers to institute price cuts to secure contracts.
No ARED county foreclosure postings attributed to College Station yet — the verified ledger covers every county the foreclosure ingest has read, attributed by published city area. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
Deterministic aggregate of 6 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Median prices moved down 11.9% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 34 days on market with 5.0 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
3% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 65.1% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.8% · poverty 29.2% — a mixed stability profile.
- Santa's Wonderland4.39.3 mi
- Grand Station Entertainment4.41.6 mi
- Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park4.52.3 mi
- Jumping World4.32.9 mi
- Chuck E. Cheese4.11.4 mi
- Kyle Field4.81.2 mi
- Reed Arena4.61.6 mi
- Brazos County Expo Complex4.65.4 mi
- Grand Station Entertainment4.41.6 mi
- Lake Bryan4.410.1 mi
- Santa's Wonderland4.39.3 mi
- George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum4.72.4 mi
- Cinemark College Station and XD4.61.7 mi
- Aggie Park4.91 mi
- Grand Station Entertainment4.41.6 mi
- George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum4.72.4 mi
- Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site4.722.8 mi
- Museum of the American GI4.89.7 mi
- Old Baylor Park4.721 mi
- Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History4.63.2 mi
- Veterans Park and Athletic Complex4.72.2 mi
- Aggie Park4.91 mi
- Stephen C. Beachy Central Park4.62 mi
- Lake Bryan4.410.1 mi
- Lick Creek Park4.67.8 mi
- Topgolf Bryan4.32.6 mi
- The Golf Club at Texas A&M3.70.6 mi
- Pebble Creek Country Club4.36.5 mi
- Miramont Country Club4.93.7 mi
- Phillips Event Center and Maddens casual gourmet4.42.7 mi
- Post Oak Mall41.3 mi
- T.J. Maxx4.21.1 mi
- Ross Dress for Less4.20.7 mi
- Kohl's4.30.5 mi
- Marshalls4.32.2 mi
- Easterwood Airport4.33.1 mi
- Astin Aviation (CLL)4.92.9 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
The amenity base that shapes daily life and property demand in this city — what residents actually live with, and what the pipeline is adding.
Iconic 102,733-capacity home of Texas A&M football, driving significant hospitality and short-term rental revenue during home game weekends.
A 515-acre nature park offering extensive multi-use equestrian and pedestrian trails that preserve native Post Oak Savannah habitat.
National cultural anchor located on the Texas A&M campus featuring archival research facilities, permanent historical exhibits, and landscaped grounds.
A prominent central urban park with an outdoor festival amphitheater, paved trail network, greenbelts, and disc golf facilities.
A 150-acre premier sports tournament venue hosting regional youth soccer, softball, and lacrosse events alongside dedicated veteran memorial plazas.
College Station appeals strongly to academic faculty, healthcare professionals, and young families seeking top-rated CSISD campuses in master-planned south subdivisions, as well as real estate investors focused on single-family 'Ag-shack' student rentals and game-day short-term rentals near Kyle Field.
College Station Independent School District (CSISD) consistently ranks among the upper tier of public school districts in Texas, earning TEA 'A' accountability ratings and driving robust residential demand across South College Station.
Primary vehicular mobility relies on State Highway 6 and State Highway 47, linking the city to Bryan, Houston, and Austin. The Texas A&M transit system operates extensive campus-oriented bus routes that service residential neighborhoods throughout the central and western corridors.
College Station boasts an extensive municipal parks system featuring Lick Creek Park, Veterans Park & Athletic Complex, and Wolf Pen Creek Park and Amphitheater, along with direct proximity to campus cultural and sporting venues like Kyle Field and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.
The city maintains one of the largest single-family and purpose-built student housing rental inventories in Central Texas, driven by over 70,000 Texas A&M students. Rent growth has moderated due to recent private off-campus multifamily deliveries, though stabilized multi-bedroom detached rentals proximate to campus shuttle routes maintain solid year-round tenancy.
College Station's economic base is anchored by Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M University System, which together employ over 20,000 personnel. Growth in research, biotechnology, engineering, and regional healthcare systems—notably Baylor Scott & White and CHI St. Joseph—provides steady non-cyclical employment stability.
Economic and development momentum is anchored by Texas A&M University's expanding student and research base, ongoing buildouts in the biomedical and defense manufacturing sectors at RELLIS and Lake Walk, and continuous retail expansion along the State Highway 6 corridor.
Municipal planning guidelines emphasize low-density neighborhood conservation in established interior subdivisions via single-family overlay zones, while steering high-density multifamily construction toward major thoroughfares and university edge districts.
Property parcels in College Station are assessed primarily by Brazos County, the City of College Station, and College Station ISD, with select newer southern and western subdivisions encumbered by municipal utility districts (MUDs) or public improvement districts (PIDs) that fund trunk water, storm drainage, and road infrastructure.
College Station records violent crime rates well below both the Texas and national averages, though property crime rates are moderately elevated around high-density student residential corridors near campus.
The primary localized hazard consists of riverine and urban flash flooding along tributaries of the Navasota River, Carter's Creek, and Wolf Pen Creek during heavy convective rainstorms, while wildfire risk remains low.
Homeowners insurance rates in College Station have experienced double-digit percentage increases in recent years due to severe hail, windstorm, and convective weather patterns across Central and East Texas.
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. State (Texas) — Senior (65+) and Disabled Homestead Exemption and School Tax Ceiling: Grants an additional mandatory $10,000 exemption from ISD appraised value (Taxable Value_ISD = Appraised Value - $100,000 - $10,000) and establishes an absolute statutory tax freeze (school tax ceiling): total ISD property taxes cannot exceed the dollar ceiling established in the… State (Texas) — General Residence Homestead Exemption and 10% Valuation Growth Cap: Imposes mandatory state-level valuation deductions and growth limitations on the qualifying homestead: (1) Mandates a $100,000 deduction from appraised value for independent school district (ISD) maintenance and operations/debt taxation: Taxable Value_ISD = Appraised Value - $100… State (Texas) — Ad Valorem Real Property Taxation and Assessment Ratio: Mandates ad valorem appraisal of all real property at 100% of fair market value as of January 1 each tax year (Assessment Ratio = 1.00).
Researched annual trajectory for this city, from published historical series
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 6.6%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Median annual property tax paid on this city's residential parcels
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 5.0%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Retrieved from Census Bureau QuickFacts and ACS 5-year demographic summaries for College Station city, Texas.
Public schools whose reported address is in this area (NCES). Not attendance boundaries — schools that serve residents may sit outside it. Check the district's address locator for assignment.