What homes here actually sell for
West U Market Update, September 2026: Prices, Sales and Ten-Year Trends
Updated August 2026
Bottom line: The median West U home sold for $2,057,500, an average of $543 per square foot, with 203 sales in the trailing twelve months and about 4.1 months of supply. Figures as of September 2026.
By the numbers
West U Real Estate Market, September 2026
- $2,057,500
- Median sale price
- 32
- Median days on market
- 203
- Homes sold, trailing 12 months
- $543
- Average price per square foot
West U market data as of September 2026.
What is a West U home worth right now?
On this page, West U means the City of West University Place; Southampton, Boulevard Oaks and Rice Village sit inside the City of Houston. The median sale price is $2,057,500, measured across homes sold since March 2026, at an average of $543 per square foot. 203 homes changed hands in the trailing twelve months. The median home went under contract after 32 days and homes closed at about 99.8 percent of their asking price, against about 4.1 months of supply. Every figure here is as of September 2026 and is recomputed overnight rather than typed in by hand.
Read the time on market and the sale-to-list ratio together, because each explains the other. A short median time to contract alongside a ratio a little under asking describes homes priced close to the market and then negotiated modestly. That is an ordinary pattern rather than a distressed one, and it is not a bidding war either.
The median also hides what it is a median of. This market contains original houses on full-size sites and recently built houses on the same streets, and the two are priced by different logics: one largely land, the other largely building. When the mix of what sold changes, the headline figure moves without anything about the market having moved.
Which market do these figures actually cover?
West University Place together with the Southside area beside it, as the market-statistics feed behind this site defines the boundary. That is wider than the city whose ordinance the rest of this site is about, and it is worth saying plainly rather than leaving a reader to assume the two are the same set of houses.
The practical consequence is small but real. The zoning, tree and permit rules described elsewhere on this site apply inside West University Place and nowhere else, while the price figures above describe a slightly larger area. For a conversation about the band this market occupies, the difference does not matter. For pricing a specific address, the comparable set that matters is drawn street by street rather than from either boundary.
Have West U prices risen over the last ten years?
Yes, on every series the feed carries. The median sale price and the median rate per square foot have both risen substantially across the decade, and the rate per square foot has climbed more smoothly than the price median, for the ordinary reason that it adjusts for the size of what sold.
The number of sales has gone the other way over the same period, falling by roughly half from the start of the series to the most recent full year. A rising price on falling volume is the normal signature of a built-out market: West University Place has fixed boundaries and effectively no vacant land, so its housing stock changes by replacement rather than by addition.
The feed also carries a ten-year series for median lot value per square foot, which has risen across the decade while moving unevenly year to year. That series is the one most directly about this site's subject, and it is also the one least safe to quote about any particular property, because a market-wide median lot value is computed across whatever happened to trade.
How much weight can these figures carry?
Enough for context, not enough for a decision about one property. A market producing a couple of hundred sales a year gives a median a stable base, so month-to-month movement in the headline figure is usually mix rather than direction, and this site does not publish a month-over-month reading.
What that volume does buy you is comparables. In a market this active, four similar recent sales usually exist for most kinds of property, and pricing a house against those four is a different exercise from pricing it against a market average. It is also the only one of the two that produces a number you can defend in a negotiation.
For an owner weighing a house against a lot, the figures above are the wrong instrument on their own. A market median averages together the house value and the land value of everything that sold. Separating the two for a specific address is what the rest of this site is for.
What can this page not tell you?
How the market splits between houses and lots. The feed reports sale prices, not what the buyer intended to do with the property afterwards, so nothing here separates a sale to an owner-occupier from a sale to a builder. That split is the most useful cut of this data and it is not in the data.
What is on the market today. These are trailing figures recomputed overnight, not a listing feed, and standing inventory turns over faster than any published median does.
And what a particular home is worth. Every figure above describes a market rather than an address. Your own depends on your site, your house, and which of the two a buyer is paying for.
Questions & answers
West U questions, answered
What is the median home price in West U?
$2,057,500, measured across homes sold since March 2026 in the market that covers West University Place and the Southside area beside it. The average rate is $543 per square foot. Both figures come from the market-statistics feed behind this site and carry the date September 2026.
A median at this level mixes two quite different products. An original house on a full-size site and a recently built house on the same street are both in the sample, and they are priced by different logics: one is largely land, the other largely building. That is why the median moves when the mix of what sold changes, even in a quarter when nothing about the market moved. The rate per square foot smooths part of that effect but not all of it, because a new house is not merely a bigger old one, which is where the house-or-lot question starts.
What is the price per square foot in West U?
$543 on average across homes sold since March 2026, as of September 2026. That is the figure to reach for when comparing this market against another one, and the figure to be most careful with when comparing two houses inside it, because it treats a square foot of new construction and a square foot of unrenovated original house as the same unit.
The distortion runs in a specific direction here. In a market where a meaningful share of sales are new houses built to the permitted envelope, the rate per square foot is pulled upward by product rather than by land, and an owner of an older house who applies the market rate to their own floor area will overstate what the house is worth and understate what the site is worth. Reading the rate alongside the replacement record is the correction, and the two together are more informative than either alone.
How many homes sell in West U each year?
203 in the trailing twelve months to September 2026, across the market that covers West University Place and the Southside area beside it. That is enough annual turnover for a median to describe something real, which is not true of every market this site's operator covers, and it supports about 4.1 months of supply.
Volume matters more than it looks here. A market producing a couple of hundred sales a year gives a median a stable base, so month-to-month movement in the headline figure is usually mix rather than direction. It also means comparable sales exist for most kinds of property, which is the practical thing an owner needs: pricing a house against four similar recent sales is a different exercise from pricing it against a market average, and in a market with this much turnover the four usually exist.
How long do homes take to sell in West U?
The median home went under contract after 32 days, and homes closed at about 99.8 percent of their asking price, as of September 2026. Read those two together: a short median time to contract alongside a ratio just under asking describes homes priced close to the market and then negotiated modestly.
The median hides a wide spread, and in this market the spread has a pattern. Homes that are competing on land tend to transact against a small set of informed buyers who have already underwritten the site, while homes competing on the building compete with new construction and with each other. Those are different sale processes with different timelines, and which one a property runs is settled by the house-or-lot question rather than by the median of both.
Have West U prices risen over the last ten years?
Yes, on every series the market-statistics feed behind this site carries. Median sale price and median rate per square foot have both risen substantially across the decade, and the rate per square foot has risen more smoothly than the price median has, for the ordinary reason that it adjusts for the size of what sold.
The number of sales has moved in the other direction over the same period, falling by roughly half from the start of the series to the most recent full year. A rising price on falling volume is a normal pattern in a built-out market with no room to add housing, and West University Place is built out by definition: it has fixed boundaries and no vacant land to speak of. The housing stock changes by replacement rather than by addition, and that shows up in the eleven-year record of new homes authorized.
Has the land's share of a West U home's value been rising?
The feed behind this site carries a ten-year series for median lot value per square foot in this market, and it has risen over the decade, but unevenly, with the most recent year lower than the one before it. It is a shape worth knowing and a figure not worth quoting about any particular site.
The unevenness is the informative part. A market-wide median lot value is computed across whatever traded, so a year with more small sites in the sample reads as a fall in land value when nothing about land values moved. What the ten-year shape supports is the general claim: land here has appreciated over the decade, which is the condition under which replacement stays economic. What it cannot support is an answer about your own site, whose established date, dimensions and tree cover are specific to it and are the things a builder actually underwrites.