{"id":189,"date":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/05\/u-s-population-growth-reshapes-housing-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:00:00","slug":"u-s-population-growth-reshapes-housing-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/05\/u-s-population-growth-reshapes-housing-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Population Growth Reshapes Housing | 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\/jpmorgan-demographic-homes-remotion-videos-8ab6\" 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>An expert projected slower US population growth could limit demographic demand to 320K new homes annually over the next few years nationwide.<br \/>\nUsing annual population growth of 800K and ~2.5 people per household, the outlook implied demand for 320K additional housing units each year.<br \/>\nThat 320K figure measured demand implied by population growth, not the existing housing shortage, highlighting that separate metrics answer different national housing questions.<br \/>\nThe latest weekly survey showed 30-yr fixed mortgage rates easing slightly but staying in the low-7% range, a financing change separate from demographic demand.<br \/>\nThe outlook projected housing starts at 1.32M in 2026 and 1.24M in 2027, underscoring that construction forecasts and demographic demand measure different things.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert projected slower US population growth could limit demographic demand to 320K new homes annually over the next few years nationwide. Using annual population growth of 800K and ~2.5 people per household, the outlook implied demand for 320K additional housing units each year. That 320K figure measured demand implied by population growth, not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","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\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}