Fastest to Slowest: Ranking the Territory's Housing Markets by Days on Market

Here's the criterion: rank every market in the territory by median days on market for the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, fastest to slowest, using MLS sold data. That's the plain measure of how long a typical listing sat before it went under contract.

Roanoke comes in first. Homes there sold in a median of about 53 days, the quickest pace anywhere in the territory this period.

Right behind that pace is Weatherford. Not all of Weatherford, though. One part of the Weatherford market moved in a median of about 57 days this period, nearly matching the fastest pace in the territory.

Another part of Weatherford wasn't far off either, posting a median of about 63 days.

That's the twist worth sitting with before we go further down the list: Weatherford shows up again at the very bottom of this ranking, and it isn't the same market behaving consistently.

Azle sits in the middle of the pack. Homes there sold in a median of about 86 days this period.

Bridgeport landed close by, with a median of about 89 days.

Aledo came in a touch slower still, at a median of about 90 days.

Boyd came in slower than that. Homes there sold in a median of about 93 days.

Springtown trailed further behind, with a median of about 96 days.

Decatur was slower yet, at a median of about 97 days, the second-slowest market in the territory this period.

Then there's the other Weatherford. A separate part of that same market posted a median of about 116 days on market this period, the slowest number anywhere in the territory.

More than double the pace of the fastest Weatherford pocket, and more than double Roanoke's pace, all carrying the same city name on the sign.

That's the real story here. A ranking that just said "Weatherford: 81 days" would have buried the fact that two homes in that same market can sell at completely different speeds.

Across the whole territory, the median for all 977 sales this period was about 81 days. So the fastest pockets were meaningfully ahead of that territory-wide pace, and the slowest pocket lagged well behind it.

One more territory-wide figure is worth naming plainly. Only about 1% of the 977 sales in the territory this period closed within seven days of listing. Fast sales happened, but they were rare everywhere, even in the quickest markets. The difference between fast and slow here is measured in weeks and months, not days.

It's also worth saying what the data ruled out. None of the current inventory in the territory, in any market tracked here, is showing as absentee-owned. Whatever is driving these speed differences, it isn't a wave of investor-owned homes sitting empty.

What this means depends on where you're sitting. If you're listing in the slower Weatherford pocket, in Decatur, or in Springtown, this period's pace argues for pricing that respects how long homes there have actually been taking, not how fast a neighboring market moved. If you're a buyer working the faster corners of Weatherford or Roanoke, expect less room to sit on a decision than a buyer working the slower markets nearby.

What I'll be watching next period is whether that split inside Weatherford itself holds or narrows. A single market moving in two directions at once tends to either correct quickly or turn out to be the real story underneath everything else. Either way, it's worth watching one place, not the whole territory, to find out.

Source: MLS sold data via Redfin ZIP-level aggregates, twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026.