San Antonio 78256

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX · Bexar County, TX · 2,613 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

18affordability /100

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

Payment burden

50.8%

severe

Days on market

124

daily

Price cuts

22.9%

of active

Valuation

-6.9%

vs assessor

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/100

Weak

cooling · balanced · 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

Negotiate Hard

Needs 40.9% correction for affordability

DOM: 55d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)100

Valuation Gap (25%)10

Supply & Demand (20%)100

Buy vs Rent (15%)100

Cancellation Rate (10%)100

Days on Market (5%)60

Moderate buyer leverage in 78256. Room to negotiate 5-10% below list. Payment burden: 50.1% of median income. A 30% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 55. Renting is approximately 170% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 32.4).

What to Offer

Offer 5-10% below list. You have room to negotiate.

Conditions resemble 2019 pre-pandemic levels — moderate overvaluation with slowing demand. Negotiation room exists.

COOLINGBALANCED

Market is cooling with expanding inventory. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers.

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$596,260

▾ 0.9% YoY

Days on market

124

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$1,557

ZORI

Investor score

27/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

-6.9%

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

Avg assessor$555,030

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$215

Price-to-income8.2×

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How 78256 ranks in TX

percentile vs all Texas ZIPs · n=1763

Market velocity19%

Supply tightness72%

Affordability3%

Investment yield8%

Appreciation43%

Affordability, supply & momentum

20SUPPLY

OversuppliedSupply Tightness

Ample inventory — buyers have time and leverage to negotiate.

Months of Supply34.2 mo

Days on Market124d

Inv vs History+14.7%

Listing Density8.0/1k

Affordability — payment burden

Monthly payment (P&I)$3,081

Payment burden50.8%

Median income · ZIP$72,797

Mortgage rate6.71% · 30yr

Total monthly own$3,677

Monthly rent$1,557

Market dynamics

Price cut %22.9%

Momentumcooling

LeverageBALANCED

Months of supply34.2

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$1,557

Price-to-rent32.4

Est. cap rate2.0%

Buy vs rentfavors renting

Livability

Walk score11

Transit score—

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 78256.

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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 (52.9%) and Bexar (47.1%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.

Bexar (52.9%)

Bexar (47.1%)

ZIP 78256→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