{"id":179,"date":"2026-11-03T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/03\/u-s-home-prices-gain-real-value-lags-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:03:22","slug":"u-s-home-prices-gain-real-value-lags-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/03\/u-s-home-prices-gain-real-value-lags-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Home Prices Gain, Real Value Lags | 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\/modest-home-gains-remotion-videos-45b7\" 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>In Early-Q4, 30-yr fixed mortgage rates briefly reached the mid-7% range before easing slightly, signaling a more challenging financing backdrop for US buyers.<br \/>\nAn economist said affordability would remain challenging as households balanced inflation, energy costs, and persistently high home prices alongside nationwide borrowing costs &gt;7%.<br \/>\nInventory reached its highest level since 2019, giving buyers more homes to choose from even as higher financing costs limited what many could afford.<br \/>\nAnother economist cautioned that the index lagged current conditions, reflecting earlier summer closings while the rate environment had already become more difficult.<br \/>\nThe economist said the financing backdrop had become considerably more challenging since the closings captured in the latest release, reinforcing caution around current affordability.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Early-Q4, 30-yr fixed mortgage rates briefly reached the mid-7% range before easing slightly, signaling a more challenging financing backdrop for US buyers. An economist said affordability would remain challenging as households balanced inflation, energy costs, and persistently high home prices alongside nationwide borrowing costs &gt;7%. Inventory reached its highest level since 2019, giving buyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","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\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}