{"id":186,"date":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","slug":"which-city-sits-atop-the-fall-2026-wall-street-journal-realtor-com-housing-market-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/05\/which-city-sits-atop-the-fall-2026-wall-street-journal-realtor-com-housing-market-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Which City Sits Atop the Fall 2026 Wall Street Journal, Realtor.com Housing Market Ranking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Appleton, Wisconsin, ranks as the nation&#039;s top housing market due to a strong local economy, low housing and living costs, steady demand, improving inventory, and high quality of life. The 30-year mortgage rate averages 7.40%, raising monthly payments by 12%, making affordability a challenge. Most top markets are in the Midwest and Northeast, with homes spending less time on the market and offering lower monthly payments than the national average.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/themortgagepoint.com\/2026\/10\/30\/which-city-sits-atop-the-fall-2026-wall-street-journal-realtor-com-housing-market-ranking\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appleton, Wisconsin, ranks as the nation&#039;s top housing market due to a strong local economy, low housing and living costs, steady demand, improving inventory, and high quality of life. The 30-year mortgage rate averages 7.40%, raising monthly payments by 12%, making affordability a challenge. Most top markets are in the Midwest and Northeast, with homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","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\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}