{"id":7,"date":"2026-09-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/stanavukajlovicrealestateagent-com\/2026\/09\/03\/existing-home-sales-slip\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:00:00","slug":"existing-home-sales-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/existing-home-sales-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"Existing Home Sales Slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/stana-vukajlovic-1\/us-existing-home-sales-fall-17-amid-record-prices-remotion-videos-7491\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>US existing-home sales slipped 1.7% in Early-Q3 to a 4.06M annual pace, slightly above economists&#039; expectations and still \u21910.7% on a yearly basis.<br \/>\nMedian existing-home prices reached a record for Early-Q3 at $434.1K, while the benchmark 30-yr fixed mortgage rate climbed near 7%, highest in &gt;1 yr.<br \/>\nInventory stayed tight at 1.54M unsold homes in Early-Q3, \u21931.9% MoM and \u21930.6% yearly, leaving a 4.6-mo supply at current sales pace.<br \/>\nAn economist said owners with ultra-low pandemic-era mortgages had little incentive to sell, helping keep listings scarce and limiting how many buyers completed purchases.<br \/>\nFirst-time buyers made up 29% of purchases in Early-Q3, down from Late-Q2 and still below the historical norm of ~40% of sales.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US existing-home sales slipped 1.7% in Early-Q3 to a 4.06M annual pace, slightly above economists&#039; expectations and still \u21910.7% on a yearly basis. Median existing-home prices reached a record for Early-Q3 at $434.1K, while the benchmark 30-yr fixed mortgage rate climbed near 7%, highest in &gt;1 yr. Inventory stayed tight at 1.54M unsold homes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stanavukajlovicrealestateagent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}