{"id":130,"date":"2026-10-26T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/us-housing-market-tilts-toward-buyers-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:09:03","slug":"us-housing-market-tilts-toward-buyers-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/us-housing-market-tilts-toward-buyers-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"US Housing Market Tilts Toward Buyers | Strategically priced. Expertly marketed. Under agreement in less than two days."},"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\/maher-khatib\/market-rates-leverage-remotion-videos-a96a\" 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>The national housing clock sat at 4 o&#039;clock in Early-Q4, a late balanced market trending toward buyers after moving one hour quarterly.<br \/>\nOver the past 12 mo, seller&#039;s markets from 39 to 27 while buyer&#039;s markets from 13 to 17 nationwide, showing the map shifting toward buyers.<br \/>\nThrough the latest reading, 27 metros favored sellers, 49 were balanced and loosening, 17 favored buyers, and 6 were balanced and tightening.<br \/>\nMortgage rates moved from ~6% in Mid-Q1 to above 7% by Late-Q3 and mid-7% in Early-Q4, giving buyers leverage but reducing affordability.<br \/>\nFor buyers with a $2K monthly principal-and-interest budget, that rate jump cut purchasing power by &gt;$22K in home price, even as negotiating room improved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national housing clock sat at 4 o&#039;clock in Early-Q4, a late balanced market trending toward buyers after moving one hour quarterly. Over the past 12 mo, seller&#039;s markets from 39 to 27 while buyer&#039;s markets from 13 to 17 nationwide, showing the map shifting toward buyers. Through the latest reading, 27 metros favored sellers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}