San Antonio 78251

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX · Bexar County, TX · 14,189 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

66affordability /100

Buyer leverage is buyer advantage; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.

Payment burden

20.9%

affordable

Days on market

daily

Price cuts

26.9%

of active

Valuation

+3.1%

vs assessor

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/100

Stable

stable · buyer advantage · prices easing year-over-year.

Price trend

Affordability

Valuation

Economic health

Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.

Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens

Balanced Market

DOM: 77d (falling) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)0

Valuation Gap (25%)10

Supply & Demand (20%)100

Buy vs Rent (15%)50

Cancellation Rate (10%)75

Days on Market (5%)75

Balanced market in 78251. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 20.5% of median income. Median days on market: 77. Renting is approximately 56% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 18.7).

Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.

STABLEBUYER ADVANTAGE

Market is holding steady with balanced conditions. Buyers have strong negotiating leverage. Prices down 1.4% YoY.

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$263,084

▾ 1.4% YoY

Days on market

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$1,207

ZORI

Investor score

53/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

115

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

+3.1%

Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.

Avg assessor$271,240

county CAMA · properties_v

vs income

—

Fair-value model not available for this market.

fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage

vs county comps

+55.2%

County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.

Bexar+55.2%

Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap

Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.

Pricing detail

Price / sqft$136

Price-to-income3.4×

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How 78251 ranks in TX

percentile vs all Texas ZIPs · n=1763

Market velocity66%

Supply tightness51%

Affordability61%

Investment yield43%

Appreciation37%

Affordability, supply & momentum

34SUPPLY

BalancedSupply Tightness

Supply and demand are roughly even — standard negotiation dynamics.

Months of Supply17.3 mo

Days on Market55d

Inv vs History-4.1%

Listing Density5.3/1k

Affordability — payment burden

Monthly payment (P&I)$1,359

Payment burden20.9%

Median income · ZIP$78,025

Mortgage rate6.71% · 30yr

Total monthly own$1,623

Monthly rent$1,207

Market dynamics

Price cut %26.9%

Momentumstable

LeverageBUYER ADVANTAGE

Months of supply17.3

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$1,207

Price-to-rent18.7

Est. cap rate3.5%

Buy vs rentneutral

Livability

Walk score2

Transit score2

Bike score—

Historical trends

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Price bandsmix-shift

Price Bands — the median behind the median

A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Bexar.

Current tiers · 12 months to Invalid Datefloor 10 sales/tier

7 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.

Tier	Median	$/sqft	Sales	Share	Source
Under $250k	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$500k–$750k	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level

No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.

National context — not local

NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 78251.

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Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.

Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.

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Bexar County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration

ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.

This ZIP code crosses county lines. Property data shows Bexar (79.3%) and Bexar (20.7%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.

Bexar (79.3%)

Bexar (20.7%)

ZIP 78251→2 counties

12-Month Direction

-14Moderate Deterioration

Confidence

100%

DeterioratingStableImproving

BuildersLens Market Intelligence

Market Score

45· Weak

Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.

Payment Burden63

22.5%

affordable

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Buy vs Rent45

1.33x

rent advantage

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Valuation15

+55.2%

overvalued

Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15

Supply/Demand24

5.2 mo

buyer

Source: Lotvox MLS · Updated 2026-05-15

Insurance Risk

43/100

low_risk

Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04

County distress indicators

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.

Unemployment Rate

Near national averages

Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0667d ago

Poverty Rate

Near national averages

Median Household Income

Near national averages

Cost of Living (RPP)

Near national averages

Home Value (ZHVI)$257,675

County data: BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors