{"id":23,"date":"2026-09-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/kathystockley-com\/2026\/09\/20\/housing-market-peaks-in-2026-as-sales-surge-but-pending-listings-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:00:00","slug":"housing-market-peaks-in-2026-as-sales-surge-but-pending-listings-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/20\/housing-market-peaks-in-2026-as-sales-surge-but-pending-listings-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing market peaks in 2026 as sales surge but pending listings fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>July brought a 7% increase in completed home sales, thanks to contracts locked in during June when mortgage rates stood at 6.5%. However, as rates nudged up to 6.69%, both pending sales and new listings took a dip. Inventory has inched up a bit, while home price growth has eased back to 2.1%\u2014the slowest pace we\u2019ve seen in the past ten years. As someone who\u2019s guided buyers and sellers through countless market cycles across Oxford, Lapeer, and Lake Orion, I know these shifts can feel overwhelming. My goal is always to keep you informed and prepared at every step, ensuring your real estate journey is as smooth as possible, whatever the market brings.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/eciks.org\/23774-housing-market-peaks-2026-sales-pending\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July brought a 7% increase in completed home sales, thanks to contracts locked in during June when mortgage rates stood at 6.5%. However, as rates nudged up to 6.69%, both pending sales and new listings took a dip. Inventory has inched up a bit, while home price growth has eased back to 2.1%\u2014the slowest pace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","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\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}