Texas Manufactured Housing Market Report May 2026 - Sales Data & Analysis

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Annual Totals

New home sales in 2026 are showing a 5.8% gain year-over-year for titles processed through this point compared to 2025.

Multi-section sales are up 12.3% year-over-year while single-section sales are down 3.3%.

As noted above, the titling phase shift should be inflating 2026 year-over-year comparisons somewhat through this first half of 2026, but some of that is simply pushing sales into June that a year ago would have been tallied as revisions to earlier months. The effect shouldn’t be as pronounced at the cumulative annual total as it is at the comparative month level.

TMHA Member’s Retailer Annual Sales Totals Report

New Home Characteristics

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, and the same dynamic had not been showing with single-section homes until this last month of titling data pulled their median down for the first time in years. Given how much the median has moved for multi-section homes, we suspect the change in date of sale guidance had an outsized effect on those home sale transactions, but the single-section market has also underperformed the multi-section market for several years now, so it makes sense they are taking longer to turn.

Beyond the age of homes at purchase, the square footage plot below shows a structural shift in Texans downsizing new home purchases when the affordability squeeze set in. The break is sharp and lands in a single year: both section types held their long-run size through 2022 and stepped down together in 2023. Multi-section medians moved from roughly 1,790 square feet to about 1,700, and single-section homes from roughly 1,150 to 1,080, where both have held since. Multis are running 1,717 so far this year, a modest uptick, though 2026 is a partial year and still settling.

New Home Placement Locations

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

Midland, now fifth in volume, leads the top 10 in year-over-year growth at +27.0%, well clear of Brazoria at +13.4%; Hidalgo (+2.9%) and Ector (+2.2%) are the only other counties running ahead of last year’s pace through July 17. The remaining six are behind, with Bastrop down 27.6% and Liberty down 13.2% showing the steepest declines.

TMHA Member’s Total Annual Retail Sales per County Report

Shipment Comparison

The slowdown in titles issued with March sales dates have now pulled the shipment less retail sales total to an elevated position. Still below the March peak in 2022, but above the previous three years. The title date changes are certainly pushing this metric up to some extent as titles that would have been stamped with a purchase agreement date in March in previous years are now being titled with a later transfer of ownership date.

Used Homes

The used home retail sales data is noisy as it includes commercial purchases of park-owned homes after a manufactured home property is sold to a new buyer, but there was a clear downward trend in total transactions in the higher interest rate environment from 2022 through 2024 and have been roughly flat since.

Revised Monthly Totals

Because titles continue to come in for past sales months, here are the prior 12 months and what their current sales totals are at this report release.