{"id":107,"date":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:00:00","slug":"4-questions-shaping-us-housing-affordability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/4-questions-shaping-us-housing-affordability\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Questions Shaping US Housing Affordability"},"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\/theresa-miller\/america-housing-deflation-remotion-videos-70e4\" 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>Recent signs pointed to housing disinflation, with buyers and sellers increasingly mismatched and sellers offering more concessions, creating potential savings for households chasing homeownership.<br \/>\nThe clearest current hurdle remained borrowing costs: benchmark Treasury yields hovered near ~5%, while the avg. 30-yr mortgage rate moved above low-7%.<br \/>\nIn the four weeks ending Sept. 13, the median monthly mortgage payment reached ~$2.6K, \u2191~3% yearly, reflecting how financing costs kept affordability stretched for buyers.<br \/>\nThe resale market stayed sticky, with many owners holding low-rate loans and keeping listings scarce, while sellers still sought pandemic-era pricing in many deals.<br \/>\nIndustry voices described the US market as a correction toward stability, not a crash, with strong equity, sound lending, and opportunities for buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent signs pointed to housing disinflation, with buyers and sellers increasingly mismatched and sellers offering more concessions, creating potential savings for households chasing homeownership. The clearest current hurdle remained borrowing costs: benchmark Treasury yields hovered near ~5%, while the avg. 30-yr mortgage rate moved above low-7%. In the four weeks ending Sept. 13, the median [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddobossierrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}