{"id":21,"date":"2026-09-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/hansafsharrealestate-com\/2026\/09\/17\/us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low-for-more-info-please-visit-me-here-https-hansoregonhomes-com\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:00:00","slug":"us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low-for-more-info-please-visit-me-here-https-hansoregonhomes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/17\/us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low-for-more-info-please-visit-me-here-https-hansoregonhomes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"US Confidence Hits Seven-Mo Low | For more info please visit me here: https:\/\/hansoregonhomes.com\/"},"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\/hans-afshar\/consumer-confidence-just-hit-a-seven-month-low-heres-whats-driving-it-3c3d\"\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>Recently, we\u2019ve seen US consumer confidence dip to a seven-month low\u2014an important trend to keep in mind if you\u2019re navigating real estate decisions here in Salem or throughout the Willamette Valley. In mid-Q3, people generally felt pretty positive about their current situations, but their outlook for the next few months\u2014especially around income, business, and job stability\u2014turned more cautious. The present-conditions index rose by about 7 points to 121, while the expectations gauge fell roughly 6 points to 68. That\u2019s a threshold often associated with recession risk. At the same time, early Q3 saw employers cut 23,000 jobs and unemployment tick up to around 4%, mostly because more folks left the workforce rather than hiring picking up. Still, despite the softer confidence, homebuying expectations barely slipped and even continued rising in mid-Q3, with about 61% of consumers anticipating higher interest rates. With federal policymakers holding rates steady and markets not expecting much near-term relief, it looks like borrowing costs will remain elevated for buyers through year-end. As someone who guides clients through these shifts every day, I\u2019m always here to help you interpret what these trends might mean for your next move.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we\u2019ve seen US consumer confidence dip to a seven-month low\u2014an important trend to keep in mind if you\u2019re navigating real estate decisions here in Salem or throughout the Willamette Valley. In mid-Q3, people generally felt pretty positive about their current situations, but their outlook for the next few months\u2014especially around income, business, and job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":51,"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.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}