{"id":10,"date":"2026-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/kathystockley-com\/2026\/09\/06\/what-did-existing-home-sales-look-like-in-july-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:00:00","slug":"what-did-existing-home-sales-look-like-in-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/what-did-existing-home-sales-look-like-in-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"What did existing home sales look like in July 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Existing home sales rose 0.7% year-over-year in July, despite a 1.7% monthly decline nationwide. Median home prices increased for the 37th consecutive month, reaching $434,100, while housing affordability improved across all regions. Total homes for sale decreased slightly to 1.54 million. Mortgage rates averaged 6.69%, up slightly from the previous week and year. Regional sales changes varied, with the Northeast up 2%, the West stable, the Midwest down 2%, and the South down 3.1%.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rate.com\/mortgage\/resource\/housing-report-08-11-26\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing home sales rose 0.7% year-over-year in July, despite a 1.7% monthly decline nationwide. Median home prices increased for the 37th consecutive month, reaching $434,100, while housing affordability improved across all regions. Total homes for sale decreased slightly to 1.54 million. Mortgage rates averaged 6.69%, up slightly from the previous week and year. Regional sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}