{"id":26,"date":"2026-08-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:00:00","slug":"u-s-home-affordability-income-stays-near-110k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/u-s-home-affordability-income-stays-near-110k\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Home Affordability Income Stays Near $110K"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/douglas-converse\/households-afford-us-remotion-videos-6c9d\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Affordability had largely stabilized after several difficult years, but the typical US household still earned well below what was needed to comfortably buy a home.<br \/>\nThe gap narrowed because household income growth slightly outpaced housing costs, making purchase budgets somewhat easier to manage even as overall affordability remained strained.<br \/>\nHousing costs took a smaller share of buyer income than a year earlier, and a larger share of listings fit median-income budgets.<br \/>\nAn economist said conditions had become more manageable for house hunters, with a buyer&#039;s market across most of the country, more choices, and negotiating power.<br \/>\nLooking ahead, economists said affordability could improve slightly by year-end, though higher rates, oil-price jumps, or stronger inflation could reverse that progress.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affordability had largely stabilized after several difficult years, but the typical US household still earned well below what was needed to comfortably buy a home. The gap narrowed because household income growth slightly outpaced housing costs, making purchase budgets somewhat easier to manage even as overall affordability remained strained. Housing costs took a smaller share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","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\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}