{"id":120,"date":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","slug":"housing-data-gives-buyers-more-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/22\/housing-data-gives-buyers-more-leverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Data Gives Buyers More Leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/michael-tran-1\/september-housing-leverage-remotion-videos-361c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Late-Q3, ~21% of active listings had price cuts, while inventory topped 1.16M homes and moved within ~9% of typical pre-pandemic levels.<br \/>\nBuyer activity stayed cautious as homes under contract \u2193~4% yearly for a second straight month, showing higher mortgage costs still limited affordability.<br \/>\nThe national median list price was ~$419K, down ~1% MoM and yearly, marking an 11 mo stretch of yearly declines; price per sq-ft \u2193~2% yearly.<br \/>\nSellers largely stayed in the market: ~6% of listings were delisted, roughly flat yearly, while more owners reduced prices and opened negotiation room.<br \/>\nThe next key test is whether additional price cuts bring more signed contracts, or whether rising supply and softer demand extend this adjustment period.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Late-Q3, ~21% of active listings had price cuts, while inventory topped 1.16M homes and moved within ~9% of typical pre-pandemic levels. Buyer activity stayed cautious as homes under contract \u2193~4% yearly for a second straight month, showing higher mortgage costs still limited affordability. The national median list price was ~$419K, down ~1% MoM and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}