{"id":87,"date":"2026-09-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/25\/home-purchase-loans-increased-in-nearly-80-of-major-metropolitan-areas-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:00:00","slug":"home-purchase-loans-increased-in-nearly-80-of-major-metropolitan-areas-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/25\/home-purchase-loans-increased-in-nearly-80-of-major-metropolitan-areas-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Home-Purchase Loans Increased in Nearly 80% of Major Metropolitan Areas in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>It\u2019s encouraging to see that home-purchase mortgage applications climbed by 2% to 6.68 million, with 3.6 million loans originated and the average mortgage rate dropping to 6.4%. Nearly 80% of major metropolitan areas experienced a rise in applications, even though activity is still a bit shy of what we saw before the pandemic. Having spent over three decades living and working in Northern Arizona, I\u2019ve witnessed many changes in the real estate landscape, and I know how much these shifts can impact your plans. My commitment is always to provide you with honest guidance and a smooth experience\u2014whether you\u2019re buying your first home or making your next move.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/news\/economists-outlook\/home-purchase-loans-increased-in-nearly-80-of-major-metropolitan-areas-in-2025\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s encouraging to see that home-purchase mortgage applications climbed by 2% to 6.68 million, with 3.6 million loans originated and the average mortgage rate dropping to 6.4%. Nearly 80% of major metropolitan areas experienced a rise in applications, even though activity is still a bit shy of what we saw before the pandemic. Having spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","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\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azdealsbydenise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}