{"id":75,"date":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","slug":"housing-market-peaks-in-2026-as-sales-surge-but-pending-listings-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/housing-market-peaks-in-2026-as-sales-surge-but-pending-listings-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing market peaks in 2026 as sales surge but pending listings fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Watching the local and national housing market, I\u2019ve noticed some telling shifts this summer. July saw completed home sales rise by 7%, thanks to contracts signed back in June when mortgage rates hovered around 6.5%. But as rates ticked up to 6.69%, both pending sales and new listings took a dip. Inventory edged up just a bit, while home price growth slowed to 2.1%\u2014the lowest increase we\u2019ve seen in ten years. As someone guiding buyers and sellers throughout Salem, Aumsville, and the Willamette Valley, I\u2019m always keeping a close eye on trends like these to help clients navigate the changing landscape with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/eciks.org\/23774-housing-market-peaks-2026-sales-pending\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the local and national housing market, I\u2019ve noticed some telling shifts this summer. July saw completed home sales rise by 7%, thanks to contracts signed back in June when mortgage rates hovered around 6.5%. But as rates ticked up to 6.69%, both pending sales and new listings took a dip. Inventory edged up just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","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\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansafsharrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}