Azle home values, based on 1,733 closed sales. Lake frontage adds about 64%, values are flat, and the Parker County side has a noticeably lower tax rate.
Azle sits northwest of Fort Worth on the west shore of Eagle Mountain Lake, where Tarrant, Parker and Wise counties meet. The Eagle Mountain page covers the Fort Worth side of the lake. This is the other shore: a different city, a different school district, and a different tax rate.
Over the three years ending September 2026, Azle produced 1,733 closed sales at a median of $331,685. I'm a Texas broker and a Certified Residential Appraiser. Here is what those sales show.
73 site-built sales were waterfront, and 59 of those were private lakefront, not common-area access. Controlling for house size, lot size, build decade and date of sale:
The medians show it plainly: waterfront houses sold at $293 a foot against $189 for everything else, at a $655,000 median on 2,289 square feet. Most of them are older houses, with a median build year of 1982, in subdivisions like Snug Harbor Village, Oak Harbor Estates and Timberlake Estates. About a third of waterfront buyers paid cash.
On the Fort Worth side of the same lake, frontage roughly doubles the price. The Azle side comes in a little lower, about 64–82% depending on the frontage. On Lake Granbury, main-body lakefront adds about 80%. Across three lakes, private frontage is worth roughly 60–100%, and common-area access is worth close to nothing.
The details still matter within the lakefront group: bulkhead or retaining-wall condition, the dock and any lift, water depth, the view, and whether the shoreline is private or controlled by the water district. Several Azle waterfront subdivisions carry "Water Board" in their legal names. That's worth asking about: find out who controls the shoreline and what can be built at the water's edge before relying on a lakefront comparison.
Without separating the waterfront, Azle looks like it's rising about 1.5% a year. With waterfront controlled for, the trend is +0.53% a year (p = 0.34), which is flat. It stays flat off the water (+0.14%), for resales (+0.65%), for brand-new houses (+0.61%) and excluding the largest subdivision, Azle Grove (+0.15%).
That's a composition effect worth knowing about. When a few more lakefront houses sell in one year than another, a citywide average moves even if no individual house is worth more. It's the same trap I found in Joshua with manufactured homes.
549 sales were brand-new houses, about a third, and 153 of them were in Azle Grove alone. Here's the unusual part:
New and resale are selling at almost exactly the same price, and new houses are selling faster. On the south side of Fort Worth, when builders came down to resale prices, both fell. In Azle they haven't. New-home prices are flat, and they closed at about 98% of original list.
So Azle is an exception to the pattern I've described elsewhere, and I'd rather say so than force it to fit. New construction priced at resale levels doesn't always pull a market down. What Azle has that Crowley and Cleburne don't is a third of its new houses on an acre or more, and a lake that holds up the older stock.
Azle is split between Tarrant County (944 site-built sales), Parker County (680) and a small piece of Wise County (33). The two main sides are different markets:
The Parker County side is newer and more expensive, and much of it is on acreage. Controlling for size, lot, build decade and water, the Tarrant side sells about 2.6% lower (p = 0.02). The larger practical difference is the tax: on a $400,000 house, the gap between 1.87% and 1.49% is about $1,500 a year.
Nearly all of Azle is Azle ISD (1,660 sales). The small Springtown ISD portion is mostly two subdivisions, so there's no school effect to measure.
As in Weatherford, price per foot of house rises with the land under it:
Lot | Sales | Median price | Median $/ft of house |
Under half an acre | 978 | $307,689 | $175 |
Half an acre to 1 acre | 257 | $532,000 | $227 |
1 to 2 acres | 256 | $483,000 | $218 |
2 to 5 acres | 128 | $651,000 | $245 |
5 acres or more | 38 | $773,500 | $322 |
The half-acre-to-acre group includes many of the lake lots, which is why it sells higher than the one-to-two-acre group. On acreage away from the water, the pattern is the same as Weatherford's: the land is a large part of the price and needs to be valued on its own.
Manufactured homes are 76 sales, about 4%, and 22 of them were entered in the MLS as "single family." Controlling for size, lot and age, they sell for about 41% less than a comparable site-built house. Their share of sales has risen slightly, from about 2% to 5%. Compare them only with each other, and settle the financing questions first: foundation, HUD labels, whether the home has been moved, and its real-property status.
Azle had 183 closed land sales over the same three years, at a median of $125,000 on 1.25 acres.
Parcel size | Sales | Median price | Per acre |
Half an acre to 1.5 acres | 58 | $86,500 | about $91,000 |
1.5 to 3 acres | 39 | $150,000 | about $62,000 |
3 to 6 acres | 36 | $238,000 | about $52,000 |
6 to 15 acres | 6 | $454,500 | about $47,000 |
15 acres or more | 4 | $918,750 | about $26,000 |
An acre in Azle runs about $88,000. Land prices have been flat over the window (not significant).
About 47% of land parcels that came to market never sold, and 68% of the ones that did were bought with cash. The median land sale took 63 days. Price acreage from closed land sales, not from what's listed.
City | Sales | Median | Waterfront premium | Tax | Annual trend |
Azle | 1,733 | $331,685 | +64% (private +82%) | 1.69% | flat |
3,658 | — | about +105% | — | −1.0 to −1.4% | |
3,968 | $345,000 | +80% main body, +46% canal | 1.11% | −2.34% | |
3,538 | $439,000 | — | 1.54% | +1.52% |
This isn't just a local quirk. I tested it across 19 markets and 40,703 closed sales: the size of the lot predicts which houses are losing value better than the town does, with subdivision lots down about 1% a year and acreage up about 1%.
Off the water, the market is flat and steady, and your competition is new construction at almost exactly your price that sells a little faster. What a resale house offers is usually a larger lot, mature trees and no wait. Price it from recent sales on your side of the county line.
On the water, the frontage sets the price. Build the comparable set from other private-frontage sales, and document the shoreline, the dock and any shoreline rules before you list.
On pre-listing work, the order matters more than the budget. What to fix before you list, and in what order tests fourteen improvements against 33,000 closings. If the work needs doing and the cash is tied up, Compass Concierge covers it up front and is repaid at closing.
Seventeen hundred sales, a lakefront premium of about two-thirds, three counties with different tax rates, flat values once the water is separated out, and new construction selling at resale prices without dragging the market down.
What I can tell you is what the closed sales on houses with your kind of frontage, or none, on your side of the county line actually support.
Browse active listings in this price range, or call or text (682) 207-4310, or send me a note.
Figures are medians and model results from NTREIS listings and closed sales with an Azle address for the three years ending September 2026, reported in aggregate. Waterfront categories follow the listing's waterfront features field. "New construction" means a house sold in or within a year after its build year. Manufactured-home figures include homes identified in the listing description as well as by property type. School attendance boundaries, tax rates, HOA dues, financing rules and market conditions change. Confirm current figures for a specific address before relying on them. Nothing here is an appraisal or a valuation of any particular property.
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