Real estate
BY TOMER RONEN
Home Edition
2025
Welcome to the annual CI Home Edition! This guide highlights the rise of middle housing options expected to come to the Sugar Land and Missouri City areas. These housing types include townhouses, complexes, duplexes and small lot homes. The edition also covers area housing market trends and the state’s upcoming Nov. 4 election with property tax-related propositions. Updates on Fort Bend County’s 2025 appraisal values round out this edition highlighting a decrease in value for nearly 60% of residents.
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What's inside
Learn more about property tax propositions (Page 19)
Explore incoming middle housing in the area (Page 20)
See how the area’s real estate market has changed (Page 22)
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Nearly 60% of property values decrease
Fort Bend County residential value trends, 2024 vs. 2025
Had nominal
Despite Fort Bend County seeing an average increase of 1.9% for residential properties values from 2024 to 2025, only 37.9% of homeowners saw their properties increase in value, according to an April news release from the Fort Bend Central Appraisal District. The average increase is also down from last year’s 4.4% increase. “The real estate market is stabilizing following the turbulent COVID[-19] years,” FBCAD Chief Appraiser Jordan Wise said in the release. “Overall, residential property saw modest gains while com- mercial property has declined slightly, led largely by faltering o ce and retail markets.” Wise said key market drivers for property values increasing include: • Interest rates and in ation shaping markets on national and local levels • Levels of available houses in Fort Bend County climbed
• Increasing interest in real estate • Low inventory and strong demand for houses By the numbers Homes valued under $200,000 saw the biggest negative shift among the ve property value ranges, with 74.6% of houses decreasing in value, appraisal data shows. Meanwhile, homeowners with properties valued over $750,000 were the only group to see more than half their values increase, at 63.1%. Despite the drop in the values of most homes, single-family home sales, median prices and months’ supply of homes in Fort Bend County all increased from 2024 to 2025. The amount of homes added to the county rose, seeing a 4.5% increase, from 7,360 to 7,691, according to FBCAD data.
Home values
Increased Decreased change in
in value
in value
value
Less than
3,184
13,000
1,226
$199,999 $200,000- 15,137 $299,999 $300,000- 36,309 $449,999 $450,000- 33,300 $749,999 $750,000+ 14,815
41,614
1,024
57,391
2,326
41,531
1,823
8,200
447
Total single-family homes sold in Fort Bend County
95,302 85,163 83,854
2022 2023 2024
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