{"id":163,"date":"2026-10-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:00:00","slug":"seller-concessions-reach-a-new-us-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/seller-concessions-reach-a-new-us-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Seller Concessions Reach a New US Peak"},"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\/douglas-converse\/seller-concessions-peak-remotion-videos-a033\" 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 the rolling 3-mo period ending Mid-Q3, sellers gave concessions in ~45% of US home sales, the highest Mid-Q3 share recorded since at least 2020.<br \/>\nThat share was up from ~43% a yr earlier, showing buyers gained more leverage as elevated inventory and lighter competition shifted the national market.<br \/>\nConcessions included help with repairs, closing costs, or mortgage-rate buydowns, giving buyers multiple ways to lower total purchase costs beyond straight price cuts.<br \/>\nSellers increasingly competed through closing-cost credits and rate buydowns, not just price cuts, reshaping negotiations and creating more flexible deal structures for buyers.<br \/>\nNationally, ~16% of homes sold in Mid-Q3 paired a price reduction with a concession, offering another path to reduce buyer entry costs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the rolling 3-mo period ending Mid-Q3, sellers gave concessions in ~45% of US home sales, the highest Mid-Q3 share recorded since at least 2020. That share was up from ~43% a yr earlier, showing buyers gained more leverage as elevated inventory and lighter competition shifted the national market. Concessions included help with repairs, closing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}