{"id":5,"date":"2026-09-28T19:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/the-best-cities-to-buy-a-home-this-summer-according-to-new-data\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:31:49","slug":"the-best-cities-to-buy-a-home-this-summer-according-to-new-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/the-best-cities-to-buy-a-home-this-summer-according-to-new-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Cities to Buy a Home This Summer, According to New Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Top affordable U.S. cities include Akron, Ohio, with a cost of living 10% below average and median home price of $252,000; Rockford, Illinois, with homes around $265,000; Lynchburg, Virginia, near the Blue Ridge Mountains at $367,000; and Manchester, New Hampshire, with tax benefits and $600,000 median home price. Other cities are Reading, PA ($355,000), Springfield, MA ($380,000), Canton, OH ($251,000), Lancaster, PA ($417,000), Oshkosh, WI ($400,000), and South Bend, IN ($341,000).<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.housebeautiful.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/a73295587\/best-housing-markets-summer-2026\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top affordable U.S. cities include Akron, Ohio, with a cost of living 10% below average and median home price of $252,000; Rockford, Illinois, with homes around $265,000; Lynchburg, Virginia, near the Blue Ridge Mountains at $367,000; and Manchester, New Hampshire, with tax benefits and $600,000 median home price. Other cities are Reading, PA ($355,000), Springfield, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","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\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}