{"id":59,"date":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/homesbyericanicolai-com\/2026\/09\/30\/three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:00:00","slug":"three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Three U.S. Housing Signals for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/erica-nicolai\/us-housing-september-remotion-videos-ef8d\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Pending home sales turned slightly negative yearly in the latest reading, ending an 8 mo streak of gains as higher borrowing costs cooled buyer momentum.<br \/>\nContract signings also softened yearly, homes took 60 days to sell, and mortgage rates climbed from ~6% in Late-Q1 to the high-6% range recently.<br \/>\nBuyers gained some leverage: median list price slipped to $424.5K, price cuts reached ~20% of listings, delistings fell yearly, and active inventory \u2191~4%.<br \/>\nEven with more listings, national inventory stayed ~11% below typical pre-pandemic levels, showing the US still faced a persistent housing shortage beneath current buyer hesitation.<br \/>\nCurrently, experts are watching seller delistings, pricing strategy, and whether regional differences keep narrowing as buyers and sellers adjust to firmer borrowing costs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pending home sales turned slightly negative yearly in the latest reading, ending an 8 mo streak of gains as higher borrowing costs cooled buyer momentum. Contract signings also softened yearly, homes took 60 days to sell, and mortgage rates climbed from ~6% in Late-Q1 to the high-6% range recently. Buyers gained some leverage: median list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}