The number of residential properties sold in Texas to international buyers is up by nearly 9% year-over-year, according to the 2025 Texas International Residential Transactions Report released by Texas Realtors.
The new report found nearly 7,500 buyers from other countries purchased Texas residential properties from April 2024 to March 2025, resulting in $4.8 billion if total dollar volume – a $1.3 billion-dollar increase from the previous reporting period.
The $420,800 median price of homes purchased by international buyers was up 12% from last year and is $82,300 higher than the median for all Texas homes sold during the same time. International homebuying activity accounted for 2.3% of the total number of residential transactions, up slightly from the 2.1% share from one year before.
Most of the international buyers of Texas houses came from Mexico (30%), followed by Canada and China (each at 8%), India (7%), and Nigeria (6%). Texas was also the top state in the US for homebuyers from Mexico, accounting for 40% of all purchases, according to the National Association of Realtors 2025 International Transactions in US Residential Real Estate. The next closest state, California, had 17% of all purchases by Mexican buyers.
