{"id":29,"date":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/randyodell-com\/2026\/10\/02\/august-2026-homebuyers-benefit-from-more-affordable-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","slug":"august-2026-homebuyers-benefit-from-more-affordable-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/august-2026-homebuyers-benefit-from-more-affordable-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2026: Homebuyers Benefit from More Affordable Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Housing activity slowed in August due to rising mortgage rates hitting a 2026 high and seasonal factors. Median list prices fell for the 10th consecutive month but at a slower rate (-1.3% YoY). Price cuts matched last year&#039;s levels for the first time in 2026, and pending sales declined slightly (-0.2% YoY), ending eight months of growth. Inventory rose regionally, while delistings dropped 12.6% YoY, indicating less market frustration.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/research\/August-2026-data\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing activity slowed in August due to rising mortgage rates hitting a 2026 high and seasonal factors. Median list prices fell for the 10th consecutive month but at a slower rate (-1.3% YoY). Price cuts matched last year&#039;s levels for the first time in 2026, and pending sales declined slightly (-0.2% YoY), ending eight months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}