Is it a buyer's or a seller's market? Six dials, updated monthly — speed, supply and seller behaviour, not just prices.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Beaumont listings, and the typical home goes pending in 30 days — the market is roughly in balance.
Zillow's own model expects Beaumont home values to change +1.9% over the year to Sep 2027. A forecast, not a promise — it is revised every month, and Zillow publishes it with that caveat.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$374 (+62%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,793 +4%
- $179,511$186,305 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,107 +3%
- $180,197$186,305 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Beaumont$978
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Beaumont, TX rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Beaumont, TX rose 2.6% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Beaumont runs $87/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $255 in Oct 2022.
That is $1,395 a month against $1,308 rent: a $978 mortgage payment, plus $218 property tax and $199 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Beaumont
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,395
- Renting$1,308
- Mortgage only$978
Property tax · $218/mo 1.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 3 counties
Insurance & upkeep · $199/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Beaumont23.62%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Beaumont30
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Beaumont1,598
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Beaumont376
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Beaumont$224,779
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Beaumont96.97%