{"id":4,"date":"2026-03-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:00:00","slug":"spring-housing-hopes-rest-on-one-missing-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Spring housing hopes rest on one missing piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Existing-home sales started 2026 weakly at 3.9 million annualized, the lowest in over two years, due to harsh winter weather and affordability issues. Inventory improved by 9% year-over-year to about 1.22 million homes, offering buyers more choices and 12% better buying power. However, new listings were down 4%, limiting market recovery. Mortgage credit availability rose slightly, easing lending conditions. The market&#039;s growth depends on more homeowners deciding to sell.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/us\/news\/general\/spring-housing-hopes-rest-on-one-missing-piece\/567828\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing-home sales started 2026 weakly at 3.9 million annualized, the lowest in over two years, due to harsh winter weather and affordability issues. Inventory improved by 9% year-over-year to about 1.22 million homes, offering buyers more choices and 12% better buying power. However, new listings were down 4%, limiting market recovery. Mortgage credit availability rose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","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\/4","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=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}