{"id":21,"date":"2026-09-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/homeswithdarlene-net\/2026\/09\/20\/summer-homebuyers-find-creative-solutions-amid-rising-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:00:00","slug":"summer-homebuyers-find-creative-solutions-amid-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/20\/summer-homebuyers-find-creative-solutions-amid-rising-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Homebuyers Find Creative Solutions Amid Rising Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>This summer, many folks are feeling the pinch as rising costs put the brakes on home sales. Existing-home sales slid by 1.7% from June to July, though they\u2019re actually up 0.7% from last year. With fewer homes available and mortgage rates hovering around 6.6%, buyers are finding it harder to make a move. The median home price now sits at $434,100, and first-time buyers especially are running into affordability challenges. As someone who truly enjoys guiding people through these ups and downs, I\u2019m always here to bring a little more ease and reassurance to the process\u2014no matter what the numbers say.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/news\/real-estate-news\/economy\/rising-costs-are-weighing-on-home-sales-this-summer\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, many folks are feeling the pinch as rising costs put the brakes on home sales. Existing-home sales slid by 1.7% from June to July, though they\u2019re actually up 0.7% from last year. With fewer homes available and mortgage rates hovering around 6.6%, buyers are finding it harder to make a move. The median [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeswithdarlene.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}