{"id":69,"date":"2026-09-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:00:00","slug":"us-buyers-navigate-14-month-cost-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/us-buyers-navigate-14-month-cost-high\/","title":{"rendered":"US Buyers Navigate 14-Month Cost High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/janine-gershon\/mortgage-costs-high-0a00\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>By Late-Q3, the typical US buyer&#039;s monthly payment reached $2.6K, a 14-mo high, as mortgage costs climbed and median sale prices held firm.<br \/>\nThe national median home-sale price \u2191~2% yearly to ~$399K, adding affordability pressure and helping keep pending sales flat MoM and lower yearly.<br \/>\nMortgage-purchase applications were slightly lower recently, while new listings fell MoM around holiday timing but still stayed modestly above the comparable 2025 period.<br \/>\nSeller strategy mattered more: ~21% of active listings cut prices, and an agent noted sharper pricing helped attract attention while overpricing created hesitation.<br \/>\nInventory also improved, with active supply \u2191~2% yearly to 1.5M homes and supply near 4 mo, still shy of a balanced market.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Late-Q3, the typical US buyer&#039;s monthly payment reached $2.6K, a 14-mo high, as mortgage costs climbed and median sale prices held firm. The national median home-sale price \u2191~2% yearly to ~$399K, adding affordability pressure and helping keep pending sales flat MoM and lower yearly. Mortgage-purchase applications were slightly lower recently, while new listings fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janineg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}