{"id":158,"date":"2026-10-31T12:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/31\/19-of-20-top-housing-markets-are-in-the-midwest-or-northeast\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:50:38","slug":"19-of-20-top-housing-markets-are-in-the-midwest-or-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/31\/19-of-20-top-housing-markets-are-in-the-midwest-or-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"19 of 20 top housing markets are in the Midwest or Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Appleton, Wisconsin, ranks No. 1 in the Fall 2026 U.S. Housing Market Ranking, leading 19 Midwest and Northeast metros. Its median listing price is $404,950, below the national median, with active listings doubling and homes selling in 40 days. The unemployment rate is 2.8%. Higher mortgage rates (7.40%) have increased monthly payments by 12%, driving buyers to markets offering better value and strong local economies.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stocktitan.net\/news\/NWS\/appleton-wis-claims-no-1-spot-in-fall-2026-wall-street-journal-and-8iurawczfzsj.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appleton, Wisconsin, ranks No. 1 in the Fall 2026 U.S. Housing Market Ranking, leading 19 Midwest and Northeast metros. Its median listing price is $404,950, below the national median, with active listings doubling and homes selling in 40 days. The unemployment rate is 2.8%. Higher mortgage rates (7.40%) have increased monthly payments by 12%, driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","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\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}