{"id":16,"date":"2026-04-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:00:00","slug":"appraisal-gap-what-buyers-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Appraisal Gap: What Buyers Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>An appraisal gap occurs when a property&#039;s appraised value is lower than the agreed purchase price, requiring buyers to cover the difference. Factors include tight housing inventory, low interest rates, and high demand. To bridge the gap, buyers can explore alternative financing, negotiate with sellers, or seek a second appraisal. Sellers can price properties appropriately and make improvements. Understanding market conditions and contract clauses is essential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exprealty.com\/guides\/appraisal-gap-what-buyers-need-to-know\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appraisal gap occurs when a property&#039;s appraised value is lower than the agreed purchase price, requiring buyers to cover the difference. Factors include tight housing inventory, low interest rates, and high demand. To bridge the gap, buyers can explore alternative financing, negotiate with sellers, or seek a second appraisal. Sellers can price properties appropriately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}