Single-Family Renters in Texas Get Some Relief
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Single-family renters in the Lone Star State are having an easier time of it as the market heads into correction territory, with homes in Dallas renting for 4.4% less in 2025 than the previous year.
Texas saw 61% of its cities clock the same or declining rents year-over-year. Only three other states logged bigger shares: Arizona (89%), Florida (67%), and Alaska (67%).
“For many Texas renters, especially in large metros, 2025 marked a meaningful change in leverage. With rents flat or falling in cities like Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, households gained more negotiating power than at any point in recent years,” reads the latest market report by Rentometer.
Data used for the report consists of the median advertised rents for three-bedroom single-family homes across the United States. Three-bedroom homes are the most common layout in the single-family rental market. Roughly two out of five renters in the country live in single-family homes.
Out of the biggest cities in Texas, Dallas logged the biggest rent reduction at 4.4%, followed by Austin at 3.6%, San Antonio at 1.5%, Fort Worth at 1.2%, and Houston at 0.5%. Austin posted the highest median rent in 2025, coming in at $2,400 per month. Dallas came in second at $2,295. Both were higher than the national median of $2,100.
With so many would-be homebuyers locked out of the market because of high prices and elevated mortgage rates, the dips in median rent in the Lone Star State’s urban centers are no doubt welcome. But there are still cities seeing rising rents, and some clocked pretty steep hikes.
Texarkana logged a whopping 14.3% year-over-year increase. San Angelo posted a 11.7% bump. And the median rent in Abilene went up by 8.2%.
“These markets tend to share tighter supply conditions and more stable demand drivers, allowing rents to rise even as larger metros struggle,” the report reads.
It looks like landlords are going to have a hard time jacking up rent, at least in the state’s bigger cities. While single-family home construction isn’t quite where many would like it to be, multifamily delivery has been high in places like Austin and Dallas, offering renters alternatives, even in the three-bedroom category.
The two metros came in No. 2 and No. 3 in a ranking last summer counting the number of expected unit deliveries in 2025.
