{"id":36,"date":"2026-09-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/rhondamusch-com\/2026\/09\/15\/housing-options-expand-offering-buyers-more-choices-in-august\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:00:00","slug":"housing-options-expand-offering-buyers-more-choices-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/15\/housing-options-expand-offering-buyers-more-choices-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Options Expand, Offering Buyers More Choices in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>In August, U.S. housing market listings showed mixed signals as mortgage rates rose above last year&#039;s levels. Active listings increased 1.2% from July and over 3% annually, despite a 5% monthly drop in new listings. New listings rose 1.5% in the West. Pending sales fell 0.2% annually, ending eight months of growth. Median list prices declined 1.3% year-over-year, with one-fifth of listings reduced. Rising mortgage rates challenge buyers and sellers, slowing housing activity.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsmanguide.com\/news\/housing-inventory-grows-as-sales-momentum-fades-in-august\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, U.S. housing market listings showed mixed signals as mortgage rates rose above last year&#039;s levels. Active listings increased 1.2% from July and over 3% annually, despite a 5% monthly drop in new listings. New listings rose 1.5% in the West. Pending sales fell 0.2% annually, ending eight months of growth. Median list prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhondamusch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}