{"id":17,"date":"2026-09-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/kathystockley-com\/2026\/09\/13\/u-s-home-sales-defy-affordability-crunch\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:00:00","slug":"u-s-home-sales-defy-affordability-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/13\/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>Despite affordability concerns, July saw U.S. existing-home sales dip by 1.7%, landing at 4.06 million homes sold nationwide. At the same time, the median price rose 2% to $434,100, while mortgage rates hit 6.66%. The Northeast experienced a bump in sales, but the Midwest and South\u2014regions that often mirror trends I see here in Michigan\u2014saw declines. After more than 35 years guiding buyers and sellers in the Oxford, Metamora, Goodrich, Brandon, and Lapeer areas, I\u2019ve learned how market shifts can affect each community differently. My priority is always to keep clients fully informed, so you can navigate these changes with confidence, whether you\u2019re buying or selling.<\/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>Despite affordability concerns, July saw U.S. existing-home sales dip by 1.7%, landing at 4.06 million homes sold nationwide. At the same time, the median price rose 2% to $434,100, while mortgage rates hit 6.66%. The Northeast experienced a bump in sales, but the Midwest and South\u2014regions that often mirror trends I see here in Michigan\u2014saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","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\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}