Springtown

Springtown sits in north Parker County, between Azle and Weatherford, about 35 miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth. It's a rural market that builders have moved into in a big way: 58% of the houses sold here in the last three years were built this decade, and most of them came with an acre of land rather than a subdivision lot.

Over the three years ending September 2026, Springtown produced 1,451 closed sales at a median of $383,725 on a median lot of one acre. I'm a Texas broker and a Certified Residential Appraiser. Here is what those sales show.

Flat, with new construction giving back a little

Controlling for house size, lot size and build year, Springtown's site-built values have moved −0.91% a year (p = 0.14), which is not distinguishable from flat. Resales are flat too (−0.60%), and so are houses on an acre or more (−1.05%) and houses on smaller lots (−0.44%).

The one measurable move is in brand-new houses, down 2.30% a year (p = 0.02). Even there, the builders aren't discounting hard: new houses closed at 97.9% of original list, and new-home price per foot has actually edged up, from $194 in late 2023 to $200 in 2026. What came down was the price of what they're building, from a $433,000 median in 2023 to about $400,000 now.

That's a much gentler decline than the small-lot builder towns south of Fort Worth, where new construction is falling 3–6% a year. The difference is the land: 59% of Springtown's new houses came with an acre or more. Builders can add subdivision lots quickly, but acreage is harder to produce. In Poolville, next door, where every sale is on acreage, new houses are rising about 5% a year.

The land is doing the work

Price per foot of house rises by about $100 from the smallest lots to the largest, and that difference is the ground, not the house. It's why an acreage property can't be priced from a citywide per-foot figure.

Land sales

Springtown had 246 closed land sales over the same three years.

An acre in Springtown runs about $76,000, against about $115,000 in Weatherford and about $46,000 in Poolville. Controlling for acreage, Springtown land prices have fallen about 6.5% a year (p = 0.02), the opposite of Weatherford's, where land is up about 14% a year. That may be part of why Springtown houses are flat while Weatherford's are rising.

Across Parker County land sales, Springtown ISD land sells about 18% below Weatherford ISD land, and Aledo ISD land about 67% above it. The Weatherford page has the full district comparison.

Land is hard to sell here: 43% of land parcels that came to market never sold, and most buyers paid cash.

Manufactured homes: one sale in nine

Manufactured homes are 159 of 1,451 sales, about 11%. Twenty-seven of those were entered in the MLS as "single family" and identified as manufactured only in the description, so a search by property type misses them.

• Median $230,000 on 1,680 square feet, about $142 a foot
• 97% on an acre or more, at a median lot of about 1.25 acres
• About 37% less than a comparable site-built house, controlling for size, lot and age
• Closed at 93.8% of original list; 28% of manufactured-home properties that came to market never sold
• 38% of buyers used FHA

On an acre here, where bare land runs about $76,000, the land is often a third or more of a manufactured home's price. Compare them only with other manufactured homes, and settle the financing questions before setting a price: foundation, HUD labels, whether the home has been moved, and its real-property status.

What it costs

• Median close $383,725 on 2,004 square feet, about $196 per foot
• Median lot one acre; 71% of sales on an acre or more
• Closed prices ran up to $2,200,000
• Median 65 days on market at 97.1% of original list; only 9% under contract within a week
• 51% of sales carried seller concessions, at a $9,507 median
• Effective property tax rate on resales about 1.38%, among the lowest I've measured
• Only 19% carry HOA dues
• Parcel-level failure rate 22.3%

The low tax rate and the near-absence of HOA dues make the carrying cost here attractive. The trade is speed and certainty: more than two months to contract on a typical sale, and more than one property in five that came to market never sold.

Most of Springtown is Springtown ISD (1,144 site-built sales), with about 100 sales in Weatherford ISD and smaller pieces of Poolville and Bridgeport ISDs. None of the district differences held up across the ways I measured them on houses, so I'm not reporting a school effect. The largest subdivisions are Covenant Park, Boardwalk Estates, Sculptor's Park, Inheritance Estates and The Ranches at Valley View, none with more than about 60 sales.

How Springtown compares

Crowley and Springtown both have more than half their sales built this decade. Crowley is falling 3.6% a year and Springtown is flat. The difference is mostly the lot: builders here are selling acres, not subdivision lots.

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%.

What I look at in a Springtown house

• The land, valued separately, including fencing, barns, shops, ponds and how much of the acreage is usable.
• Septic and well: type, age, capacity and condition.
• Deed restrictions on animals, outbuildings, manufactured homes and further division.
• Any agricultural exemption on the tax record, which comes off on sale if the new owner doesn't qualify.
• Site-built or manufactured, whatever the MLS property type says.
• Road access, utilities and internet, which vary at this distance from town.

If you're selling in Springtown

Values are holding and builders aren't undercutting you the way they are south of Fort Worth. But the market is slow and selective: more than two months to contract, and one listing in five doesn't sell. Price from recent sales on similar land, not from the best sale nearby, and market the things acreage buyers actually look for.

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.

Buying or selling in Springtown

Fourteen hundred sales, seven in ten on an acre or more, builders selling land and mostly holding their prices, a low tax rate, and a buyer pool small enough that a fifth of listings never find one.

What I can tell you is what the closed sales on houses like yours, on land like yours actually support, what the land alone is worth, and how long it's realistic to expect to wait.

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, closed sales and land sales with a Springtown address for the three years ending September 2026, reported in aggregate. "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, 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.