{"id":21,"date":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/realestateconstruction-co\/2026\/10\/04\/us-housing-comps-need-context\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:00:00","slug":"us-housing-comps-need-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/2026\/10\/04\/us-housing-comps-need-context\/","title":{"rendered":"US Housing Comps Need Context"},"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\/matthew-walker\/housing-year-context-0a5e\" 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>Purchase applications softened after mortgage rates moved above ~6.5%. Recently, applications rose ~2% weekly and were flat yearly, despite comparisons and near 7% borrowing costs.<br \/>\nRecent pending sales were 64.4K versus 65.2K a year earlier, showing a modest cooling trend for the US rather than a sharp retreat.<br \/>\nInventory growth stayed mild, but upcoming yearly comparisons should look easier because last year&#039;s demand improved as rates eased. New listings remained healthiest since 2022.<br \/>\nIn a recent week, inventory edged up to 883.7K, while new listings reached 68.1K. Price cuts were ~42%, nearly on par with yearly levels.<br \/>\nFor the rest of 2026, tougher yearly comparisons may challenge application data, but inflation reports and rate behavior should remain the key signals to watch.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchase applications softened after mortgage rates moved above ~6.5%. Recently, applications rose ~2% weekly and were flat yearly, despite comparisons and near 7% borrowing costs. Recent pending sales were 64.4K versus 65.2K a year earlier, showing a modest cooling trend for the US rather than a sharp retreat. Inventory growth stayed mild, but upcoming yearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestateconstruction.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}