Texas Manufactured Housing Market Report October 2025 - Sales Data & Analysis

October

September

Annual Totals

New home sales for 2025 are now up +6.3% for all retail sales titled through this point in the calendar. Multi-section sales are currently up +12.5% while single-section sales are down -1.6%.

The increased speed in title work submission is likely pushing year-over-year sales up some, but the effects should not be as strong as we’re seeing in the individual month figures as sales that otherwise would have been dated earlier in the year when sales agreements were signed are now coming in with a later sales date of when the transfer of ownership actually occurred.

New Home Characterstics

The shift in title cadence has really pulled down the median age of multi-section homes to the shortest amount of days in our records, but that same dynamic should apply to single-section homes yet their median age remains tied for the longest length of time on record at 124 days.

New Home Placement Locations

Here are the breakdowns in year-over-year changes for the top 10 counties in new home placements this year across home section types.

Shipment Comparison

August marked the second time that retail sales outpaced shipments for a month in 2025. That usually occurs in July, but the shift in title cadence likely pushed what would have been reported July sales forward into August. The last third of the year is usually a period of aggregate inventory build up, so not having the typical drawdown in inventory that we usually see in July is putting downward pressure on shipments for the remainder of 2025.

The 12-month moving average for shipments peaked in July of 2025 for this last production expansion cycle and has been moving lower through October.

The 12-month moving average for retail sales is currently plotted through July but the title cadence shift is pulling that line lower as homes are being titled with later transfer of ownership dates than they would have before this year.

Used Homes

The used home retail sales data is noisy as it includes commercial purchases of park-owned homes after a manufacured home property is sold to a new buyer, but there has been a clear downward trend in total transactions in the higher interest rate environment from 2022 on.

Revised Monthly Totals

Because titles continue to come in for past sales months, here are all prior months for the year and what their current sales totals are at this report release.