Frisco has been ranked the best midsize real estate market in the United States in WalletHub's 2026 study, with a score of 70.72 out of 100. McKinney finished second at 69.83 and Denton fifth at 68.08.
The most interesting thing about the result is that Frisco earned it during a year when prices here softened.
Homes in Frisco sold for a median of roughly $675,000 over the three months ending in June, down about 2.1 percent from the same period a year earlier, according to Redfin. Properties took a median of about 42 days to sell and drew an average of two offers. That is a functioning market, not the bidding-war market of a few years ago.
How the ranking is built
WalletHub compared 300 U.S. cities on 17 metrics grouped into two dimensions. The housing market itself carries 80 of the 100 points, covering things like the Zillow-based home value forecast, median days on the market and the share of mortgages that are seriously underwater. Affordability and the local economic environment account for the other 20.
That weighting matters when reading the result. A high placement describes a market that looks healthy and is expected to hold its value. It is not a finding that homes are cheap.
Cities are graded within population brackets: large is above 300,000 residents, midsize is 150,000 to 300,000, and small is under 150,000.
Read that way, first place is not a claim that Frisco is affordable. It is a statement that the market is stable, expected to hold value, and not carrying the distress signals that drag other cities down.
The economy underneath it
Frisco's employment base is unusual for a city its size, and it explains some of the market's resilience.
