{"id":9,"date":"2026-09-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/fahadinam-com\/2026\/09\/05\/u-s-home-sales-defy-affordability-crunch\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:00:00","slug":"u-s-home-sales-defy-affordability-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/05\/u-s-home-sales-defy-affordability-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Home Sales Defy Affordability Crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>U.S. existing-home sales fell 1.7% in July to 4.06 million, slightly above expectations and 0.7% higher than last year. The median home price rose 2% to $434,100, highlighting affordability challenges amid elevated mortgage rates, which reached 6.66%. Sales varied regionally, with increases in the Northeast and declines in the Midwest and South. A drop in borrowing costs could boost demand and support the housing market.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/u-home-sales-defy-affordability-191731884.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. existing-home sales fell 1.7% in July to 4.06 million, slightly above expectations and 0.7% higher than last year. The median home price rose 2% to $434,100, highlighting affordability challenges amid elevated mortgage rates, which reached 6.66%. Sales varied regionally, with increases in the Northeast and declines in the Midwest and South. A drop in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fahadinam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}