Thirteen homes closed in Nottingham Country this month. Kelliwood Nottingham properties were excluded.
A note on the data: one outlier sale on Kempsford Drive carried 357 days on market, an Opendoor-held property that sat for over a year before closing. That single listing skews the average significantly, so median is the more honest number here.
Here is what the home sales show:
13 homes sold
Median sold price: $425,000
Sale price range: $325,000 to $730,000
Median days on market: 14
Median SP/SF: $154.35
Average sale-to-list ratio: 97%
April delivered exactly what the five-year pattern predicts. The market showed up. Sellers who were ready for it were rewarded.
Market Brief: April 2026
A Recent case study
What the days on market are really telling us
a look at the last 30 days
Five of the thirteen homes that closed this month went under contract in six days or less. Three days. Four days. Five. Six. Six. Those are not outliers. That is what happens in April in Nottingham Country when a home is priced right and presented well.
The two homes that sat, at 72 days and 357 days, tell a different story. One had been through a long journey of price reductions before finally closing. One sat for nearly a full year under institutional ownership before finding a buyer at a discount. Neither reflects the condition of the market. Both reflect the condition of the listing.
The median of 14 days is the real number. And in the context of this neighborhood's history, 14 days in April is a healthy, functioning market.
Two homes closed this month that tell the full story of where this market rewards and where it pushes back.
1306 Shillington Drive listed at $349,900 and went under contract in four days over $356k, coming in at 102% of list price. Three bedrooms, 2,141 square feet, a 1979 build with no pool. On paper it is not the home you would expect to generate a bidding situation. But it had things buyers respond to without always being able to articulate why. Vaulted ceilings that made the space feel larger than the square footage suggests. Thoughtful updated choices throughout that felt intentional rather than flipped. And a large lot backing up to the bayou, giving the backyard a sense of openness and privacy - coveted in this neighborhood. It was priced honestly and it was ready, and buyers responded the same week it hit the market. The seller walked away with more than they asked for.
1118 Sherfield Ridge Drive is a different story, and it is worth telling honestly. A four-bedroom, 3,444-square-foot home built in 1989, it listed at $499,900. The cumulative days on market tell you something the current DOM number alone does not. While it shows 72 days in this listing period, the cumulative count sits at 177 days, meaning this home had already been through one round on the market before relisting. It ultimately closed below ask, in a range that reflected what the market was willing to confirm rather than what the seller had hoped to achieve.
What makes that worth pausing on is what else sold in the same size range this month. Comparable homes in the 3,000 to 3,900 square foot range closed anywhere from the mid $400s to over $700,000, with price per square foot ranging from the mid $130s to over $200. The spread is wide, and it is not random. The homes that achieved the higher end of that range were the ones buyers could see themselves in immediately. The ones that landed at the lower end asked buyers to do more work, mentally and financially, to get there.
The market was willing to pay for square footage in Nottingham Country this April. Sherfield had the square footage. The gap between what it achieved and what comparable homes achieved points to something that had less to do with the market and more to do with how the home met buyers when they walked through the door.
That is not a judgment. It is just what the numbers say when you put them side by side.
Both homes sold in the same spring market, in the same neighborhood, in the same month. The outcome had nothing to do with timing or rates or luck. It came down to how each home entered the market and what it asked buyers to overlook.
That gap is where the preparation conversation lives. And it is worth having before the sign goes in the yard.
The pipeline into spring is more active than the headlines might suggest.
Right now, 16 homes in Nottingham Country are either pending or under option. The median days on market for pending homes is 7. Seven days. That's not a slow market. That's a market that rewards preparation.
Where things are sitting is telling, too. The homes that are lingering (some well over 200 days, many of them relisted) are largely concentrated above $460,000. In that range, buyers are patient and particular. Presentation and pricing have to work together, or the home waits.
Below $430,000, the story is different. Homes are going under contract in days, not months. Buyers are active, they're ready, and when the right home shows up at the right price, they move.
Inventory is building across the broader Katy area, and the Market Action Index for Houston sits at 30, which signals a more balanced environment overall. But balanced doesn't mean slow. It means intentional. The sellers winning right now are the ones who are strategic and paying attention to what buyers are signaling in the market.
If you'd like to know where your home fits in the current Nottingham landscape, I'm always happy to provide a private, neighborhood-specific value review.
