Balch Springs home sales, the last twelve months.
197 homes sold in Balch Springs — $53.9M in all. The middle price was $255,000 (≈ $1,489/mo with 10% down), a typical home found its buyer in 30 days, and prices here run 36% below the DFW median.
The average runs 7% above the middle, which is the high end of Balch Springs pulling it up. The median is the better read on a typical home; the average is the better read on how much money is moving.
Whose market is Balch Springs?
Fewer homes for sale than buyers to absorb them — sellers hold the edge on price and terms. Right now that's 58 homes on the market against a pace of 16 sales a month, median asking $299,450.
Balch Springs against the cities next door.
The alternative to a house here is usually a house one town over. Here is what that trade actually costs.
Median sale price over the window, for Balch Springs and every city that borders it — it follows the Median/Average switch at the top of the page. The towns next door are usually the real alternative — a few minutes' drive can be worth a hundred thousand dollars in either direction.
How Balch Springs moved, month by month.
Each calendar month averaged across the two years of data above, for Balch Springs. A pattern, not a promise — the right time to move is when your life says so.
What homes here sold for.
Every sale in the window, sorted into price ranges — where the middle of this market actually lives.
Where Balch Springs actually trades.
The city median is one number stretched over very different neighborhoods. Here it is broken apart two ways — by area on the map, and by the subdivisions with the most sales.
| Neighborhood | Homes sold | Median price | $ / sq ft | Days on market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mckenzie Trails | 71 | $249,999 | $156 | 8 |
| Arcadia Trails Classic 60 | 17 | $429,990 | $177 | 97 |
Pricing right in Balch Springs.
What happened to homes that sold for their first asking price, and to homes that did not.
Every home was first listed at some price. In Balch Springs, 24.4% of homes sold for that first number or better. The other 75.6% sold for less than they first asked. On a $255,000 home, here is how those two endings differ.
Read it as a pattern, not a promise. Some homes sell under their first price for reasons no strategy would fix: condition, a hard location, a seller who had to move fast. But the split looks like this in every city in this report, and the first number is the one thing a seller gets to choose. Based on 197 sales in Balch Springs over the window.
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What a typical Balch Springs home looks like.
Medians across every Balch Springs sale in the window — half of what sold was bigger, half smaller.
Balch Springs, in plain questions.
These numbers set the scene — pricing a specific home, or winning one, is a conversation. That part is on us.
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