{"id":17,"date":"2026-09-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/hansafsharrealestate-com\/2026\/09\/12\/home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:00:00","slug":"home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/12\/home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Prices Rise 2.6% YoY Despite Expanding Inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>July brought some interesting movement in the housing market: national home prices climbed 2.6% year-over-year, reaching a median of $400,000. We also saw home sales increase by 2.9% and inventory grow by 4.4%. What stands out is how price growth differed by property type\u2014single-family homes saw a 2.5% rise, condos were up 2.3%, and townhomes edged up by 0.8%. As someone who helps clients across Salem, Aumsville, and the Willamette Valley make sense of these numbers, I find it helpful to track how shifting inventory and sales trends shape opportunities for both buyers and sellers. Staying informed about these details can really make a difference when planning your next move in our local market.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink.mba.org\/mba-newslinks\/2026\/august\/\/home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory-homes-com-finds\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July brought some interesting movement in the housing market: national home prices climbed 2.6% year-over-year, reaching a median of $400,000. We also saw home sales increase by 2.9% and inventory grow by 4.4%. What stands out is how price growth differed by property type\u2014single-family homes saw a 2.5% rise, condos were up 2.3%, and townhomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}