San Antonio homeowners are staying put
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San Antonio-area homeowners are staying in their houses for the longest time in at least 25 years, largely thanks to their low mortgage rates, data shows.
By the numbers: San Antonio metro sellers at the end of 2025 had owned their homes for an average of 7.4 years.
- In the second quarter of 2025, they had owned their homes for 7.5 years — a record in data going back to early 2000, when the average was just 1.8 years.
What they're saying: Homeowner tenure has increased steadily in almost every major metro area over the past two decades, according to ATTOM, an industry data provider.
Yes, but: Many Sun Belt and Midwest markets are still seeing comparatively shorter ownership periods than those in coastal and Northeast metro areas, ATTOM CEO Rob Barber tells Axios.
Zoom out: Before changing hands in Q4 2025, homes in Barnstable, Massachusetts (14.1 years), Springfield, Massachusetts (13.5 years), and New Haven, Connecticut (13.4 years) saw the longest average ownership among metros with at least 200,000 residents.
- Provo, Utah (6.9 years), Crestview, Florida (7 years) and Oklahoma City (7.3 years) posted the shortest tenures — not that far behind San Antonio.
The bottom line: "[M]arkets with historically longer or shorter ownership cycles have largely stayed that way, even as tenure has increased overall," Barber says.