{"id":11,"date":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/umavadher-com\/2026\/09\/06\/home-sales-on-the-rise-but-momentum-may-be-fading\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","slug":"home-sales-on-the-rise-but-momentum-may-be-fading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/home-sales-on-the-rise-but-momentum-may-be-fading\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Sales on the Rise, but Momentum May Be Fading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Home sales rose 7% in July, driven by earlier pent-up demand and improving rates, but new pending listings grew only 0.3% year over year, suggesting a peak. U.S. home values increased 1.1% annually, with a typical home value at $371,757. Mortgage payments were 0.9% lower than last year but may rise due to higher rates. Inventory rose slightly, with 1.41 million homes for sale. Median days to pending increased to 25, and 27.1% of listings had price cuts. Typical rent rose 2.3% annually.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/themortgagepoint.com\/2026\/08\/06\/sales-surge-7-in-july-but-leading-indicators-portend-a-slower-second-half\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home sales rose 7% in July, driven by earlier pent-up demand and improving rates, but new pending listings grew only 0.3% year over year, suggesting a peak. U.S. home values increased 1.1% annually, with a typical home value at $371,757. Mortgage payments were 0.9% lower than last year but may rise due to higher rates. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umavadher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}