{"id":8,"date":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/kathystockley-com\/2026\/09\/04\/opportunities-abound-14-5-million-homes-for-buyers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","slug":"opportunities-abound-14-5-million-homes-for-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/04\/opportunities-abound-14-5-million-homes-for-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities Abound: 14.5 Million Homes for Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The national vacancy rate dropped by 0.31% between 2023 and 2024, resulting in about 302,000 fewer vacant homes, indicating some improvement in the housing market. Areas with low vacancy rates have median home values averaging $435,118, significantly higher than the $267,440 average in high-vacancy states, highlighting the impact of inventory shortages on home prices.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/us\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/what-the-145-million-vacant-homes-figure-actually-means-for-your-buyers\/582806\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national vacancy rate dropped by 0.31% between 2023 and 2024, resulting in about 302,000 fewer vacant homes, indicating some improvement in the housing market. Areas with low vacancy rates have median home values averaging $435,118, significantly higher than the $267,440 average in high-vacancy states, highlighting the impact of inventory shortages on home prices. Continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","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\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathystockley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}