{"id":41,"date":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/heres-how-much-the-us-housing-market-shifted-last-quarter\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:00:00","slug":"heres-how-much-the-us-housing-market-shifted-last-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/heres-how-much-the-us-housing-market-shifted-last-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how much the US housing market shifted last quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Home prices rose in 80% of metro areas in Q2 2026, with the national median price at $434,900, up 1.5% year-over-year. The Northeast had the highest median price at $547,200, while the West saw a slight decline. Mortgage rates increased, raising monthly payments and straining first-time buyers, whose payments consumed 35.9% of income. Rising incomes help affordability, but higher mortgage rates remain a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/us\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/heres-how-much-the-us-housing-market-shifted-last-quarter\/584857\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home prices rose in 80% of metro areas in Q2 2026, with the national median price at $434,900, up 1.5% year-over-year. The Northeast had the highest median price at $547,200, while the West saw a slight decline. Mortgage rates increased, raising monthly payments and straining first-time buyers, whose payments consumed 35.9% of income. Rising incomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}