{"id":6,"date":"2026-03-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:00:00","slug":"existing-home-sales-tick-higher-as-affordability-shows-rare-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Existing-home sales tick higher as affordability shows rare relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Existing-home sales in the U.S. rose 1.7% in February to an annual rate of 4.09 million, aided by slightly lower mortgage rates and modest price easing. Inventory increased 4.9% year-over-year but remained low at 3.8 months&#039; supply, favoring sellers. The median home price was $398,000, up 0.3% annually. Affordability improved, yet demand stayed muted despite wage growth and job gains. Regional sales varied, with the West seeing an 8.2% rise and the Northeast a 6% decline.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/us\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/existing-home-sales-tick-higher-as-affordability-shows-rare-relief\/567987\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing-home sales in the U.S. rose 1.7% in February to an annual rate of 4.09 million, aided by slightly lower mortgage rates and modest price easing. Inventory increased 4.9% year-over-year but remained low at 3.8 months&#039; supply, favoring sellers. The median home price was $398,000, up 0.3% annually. Affordability improved, yet demand stayed muted despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","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\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}