What do golf course homes sell for in Rivercrest, Fort Worth?
Eleven homes fronting the River Crest Country Club course closed between May 2022 and July 2025, at a median of $2,000,000, $442 per square foot, and 89.6% of the original asking price — not one of the eleven reached its opening number. On the surrounding streets, 26 homes closed in the twelve months ending 18 September 2026 at a $840,000 median and $339 a foot, and the per-foot figure runs close to double from the streets nearest the course to those furthest away. Both samples are small, and much of this neighborhood never reaches the MLS.
Written by Eric Duran — Founder and Realtor, The Fort Real Estate | October 29, 2026
Rivercrest sits in 76107, wrapped around the oldest country club in Fort Worth. I lifeguarded at River Crest in high school, which is why the neighborhood and the course read as one thing to me, not two.
That also makes Rivercrest hard to measure, which is the point here. Frontage lots trade roughly twice a year, so twelve months of data on them is an anecdote. The figures below use two windows: five years for the frontage, the shortest span that produces a data set at all, and twelve months for everything else.
Not one frontage sale in five years closed at its asking price
| Golf-frontage single-family closings, May 2022 – July 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Closed sales | 11 |
| Median close price | $2,000,000 (range $700,000 – $4,500,000) |
| Median price per square foot | $442 |
| Median size, lot, year built | 4,116 sq ft · 0.244 acres · 1984 |
| Median days on market | 46 |
| Median % of original list price | 89.6% (range 70.7% – 97.3%) |
The median gave up 10.4 points. The west-side markets this blog has pulled closed between 95% and 98% of the original ask; Rivercrest’s own non-frontage streets came in at 94.2%. The most expensive real estate on the west side showed the widest asking-to-closing gap of any of them.
The likeliest reason is arithmetic, not the houses. Two sales a year means a seller pricing a frontage lot has no recent comparable to work from — the same problem the River District runs into for the opposite reason. Opening prices then come from what a house feels like it should be worth, and the eleven that closed got there by coming down.
Two de-identified sequences show it better than the median does. A 1936 frontage house closed in November 2022 at $700,000 against a $990,000 ask — 70.7%, the weakest ratio in the file — resold four months later at $900,000, then returned in 2026 expanded to about 5,270 square feet, opened at $4,999,000, cut to $3,999,000, and withdrew after 133 days out of a pending contract. That first discount was a project house priced as one, so it stays in: dropping it moves the median two tenths of a point.
A second frontage house, roughly 3,900 square feet, sold twice in the window. July 2022: $1,650,000, after seven days. January 2025: $1,607,750, after 185 days. Identical reported square footage, less money, two and a half years later. Frontage is scarce and expensive. It is not a guarantee that a number goes up.
The honest limit, and it cuts against the headline. Much of Rivercrest changes hands privately and never appears in MLS data, so every figure here is a floor — and the frontage homes that closed through the MLS may be the ones that did not sell quietly first, tilting the sample toward the harder sales. Read 89.6% as what the public record shows about eleven transactions, not as what a frontage seller gets. What it does show plainly: nothing above $4,500,000 has closed on the frontage in five years, while asks of $6,950,000 and $10,000,000 came off unsold.
Inside one neighborhood, the per-foot price nearly doubles
On the non-frontage streets, 26 single-family homes closed in the twelve months ending 18 September 2026: a $840,000 median, $339 per square foot, 2,542 square feet, built 1972, 69 median days on market, 94.2% of the original ask, range $365,000 to $2,720,000.
That median describes almost nobody. Across the fifteen streets with a closing in the window, median price per square foot ran from about $485 at the top to $254 at the bottom, descending broadly with distance from the course grounds. The three closings on the plats immediately around the club came in at $467 a foot; the wider polygon, on 23 closings, at $329. That spread is the club premium, measured — and why one Rivercrest median cannot price a specific house in a neighborhood holding both post-war houses on tenth-acre lots and 9,000-square-foot houses on the course.
Read the shape, not the order: most of those streets carried one to three sales — enough to show a gradient, not enough to rank one street against its neighbor. Reported square footage is also not measured to one standard across MLS and county records, a main reason a near-identical house closes at a different number.
Townhomes are reported separately: six closed at a $580,000 median, $268 a foot, 98.3% of ask, in a median nine days — the firmest segment in either file. Only two condominiums closed, too few to report.
What separated the sellers who closed from the ones who didn’t was price, not price per foot
Of the 49 distinct non-frontage properties that finished a listing in the window, 23 never closed — 46.9%, counting a property unsold only if none of its listings closed. That is more than double Crestwood’s 19.4% on the same calculation.
Here is the part worth knowing if you are pricing here. The properties that failed and the ones that sold opened at essentially the same price per square foot — a $372 median original ask among the 23 no-sales against $372 among the 26 closings. In dollars they were nowhere near each other: $1,450,000 against $950,000. Sorted by what they asked, it is a staircase:
- Under $600,000 — 2 of 9 properties never closed (22%)
- $600,000 to $1,000,000 — 7 of 15 (47%)
- $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 — 4 of 10 (40%)
- Over $1,500,000 — 10 of 15 (67%)
So here the price level, not the per-foot ask, tracked a no-sale — the same absolute-price gradient that showed up in Monticello and North Hi Mount, and the opposite of what a per-foot screen found a mile away in Crestwood. One finding does not travel between neighborhoods, even inside one ZIP code.
Most failures also never tried a different number. Eleven of the 23 never reduced their asking price before withdrawing, after a median 85 days. At the top of a thin market, waiting is not a pricing strategy.
For outside scale: Redfin’s 76107 page, read 29 October 2026, shows a $269 median sale price per square foot for the three months ending July 2026. Rivercrest’s non-frontage closings ran about 26% above that and its frontage closings roughly 64% above — which is what a ZIP-level average does to a neighborhood like this. Note that Redfin’s sale-to-list ratio measures against the final list price; every percentage here measures against the original.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do homes in Rivercrest, Fort Worth cost?
On the non-frontage streets, 26 single-family homes closed in the twelve months ending 18 September 2026 at a median of $840,000 and $339 a foot, range $365,000 to $2,720,000 (NTREIS). Golf frontage is a separate market: eleven closed over five years at a $2,000,000 median and $442 a foot.
Do golf course homes in Rivercrest sell for a premium?
Per square foot, yes — $442 on the frontage against $339 on the surrounding streets, with the gradient descending as you move away from the course. What the frontage did not get was its asking price: all eleven closings came in below their original list, at a median 89.6%.
Why do so many Rivercrest listings come off the market without selling?
Over the twelve months ending September 2026, 23 of 49 distinct non-frontage properties that finished a listing never closed. Part of that is a small buyer pool at these price points — the rate reached 67% above $1,500,000 — and part is that some were followed by a private sale the MLS never records.
Is price per square foot a good way to value a Rivercrest home?
It is a screen, and here a weak one: the figure ran from roughly $254 to $485 across fifteen streets, and it did not separate the listings that sold from the ones that failed. Use it to notice an outlier opening price, then price off adjusted comparable sales.
Is a neighborhood snapshot like this the same as a valuation of my house?
No. These are neighborhood-level medians from closed MLS records, and no median describes a specific property. A comparative market analysis is the next step down in specificity, and even a CMA is not an appraisal — that is a separate opinion of value from a licensed Texas appraiser.
Source and method. NTREIS, both files pulled 26 October 2026 from map polygons rather than subdivision names, because in 76107 the recorded plat name does not track the neighborhood. Golf frontage: 17 listing records, 13 distinct properties, all Fort Worth 76107, all single-family, closings 18 May 2022 to 31 July 2025. Non-frontage: 85 records, closings 13 November 2025 to 18 September 2026. Every figure was recomputed from the raw exports. Excluded: one listing whose city is Westover Hills, a separate municipality inside the 76107 ZIP, and one closed record with days on market of −2, dropped from days-on-market figures only. No-sale rates group listings by normalised address, counting a property unsold only if none of its listings closed. Properties are described by year, size, days on market and price behaviour only — no addresses or MLS numbers.
If you own on or near the course, the number that matters is not the neighborhood median — it is what the last comparable sale was, how old it is, and what that gap means for your opening price. In a market that produces two frontage sales a year, that is worth working out before anything goes live. Text The Fort, or call 817-703-1333 — the Rivercrest neighborhood page carries the current snapshot.
About Eric Duran
Eric Duran is the founder and Realtor behind The Fort Real Estate, a boutique brokerage in Fort Worth, Texas. A former firefighter and paramedic, he’s guided buyers and sellers across West Fort Worth since 2020 — from TCU, Colonial, and Tanglewood to Ridglea, Arlington Heights, and the new builds out in Aledo. He has been recognized as a Fort Worth Real Producers Top Agent in 2025 and 2026, a list ranked by yearly MLS sales volume and limited to the top 1,000 agents in the market, and was featured in the magazine as an “Agent on the Rise” in May 2025. Eric is a Realtor and is not an attorney, appraiser, inspector, or tax professional. Reach Eric at 817-703-1333 or thefortre.com.