{"id":9,"date":"2026-10-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/jocelynminiernyhomes-com\/2026\/10\/15\/september-2026-more-affordable-homes-as-choices-expand\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:00:00","slug":"september-2026-more-affordable-homes-as-choices-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/15\/september-2026-more-affordable-homes-as-choices-expand\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2026: More Affordable Homes as Choices Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>September housing data show a market slowed by rising mortgage rates, with new listings down and pending sales falling 4.1% year-over-year. Price cuts hit 20.8%, the highest since 2022, surpassing 2025 levels for the first time in 2026. Inventory grew 5.5%, nearing pre-pandemic norms. Median list prices fell in three regions, while price per square foot declined in 37 of 50 metros. Sellers face tougher conditions; buyers should budget for higher rates.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/research\/September-2026-data\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September housing data show a market slowed by rising mortgage rates, with new listings down and pending sales falling 4.1% year-over-year. Price cuts hit 20.8%, the highest since 2022, surpassing 2025 levels for the first time in 2026. Inventory grew 5.5%, nearing pre-pandemic norms. Median list prices fell in three regions, while price per square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jocelynminiernyhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}