{"id":15,"date":"2026-09-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/chrisdrewer-com\/2026\/09\/14\/three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:00:00","slug":"three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Three U.S. Housing Signals for September"},"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\/chris-drewer\/us-housing-september-remotion-videos-ef8d\"\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>September brought some notable shifts in the U.S. housing landscape. After eight months of steady momentum, pending home sales finally dipped year-over-year\u2014reflecting how higher borrowing costs have taken some steam out of buyer activity. We\u2019re also seeing contract signings ease off, homes taking around 60 days to sell, and mortgage rates rising from about 6% in late Q1 up into the high-6% range.<\/p>\n<p>For buyers, though, there\u2019s a bit more negotiating power out there. The median list price inched down to $424,500, price reductions are now seen on roughly 20% of listings, and delistings have dropped compared to last year. Active inventory has also crept up by about 4%, yet nationwide, we\u2019re still about 11% below the inventory levels we saw before the pandemic\u2014reminding us just how persistent the housing shortage remains, even as some buyers rethink their timing.<\/p>\n<p>Industry watchers are keeping a close eye on seller delistings, pricing tactics, and whether local market differences start to narrow as everyone adjusts to firmer borrowing costs. My experience across Baltimore and surrounding counties puts me in a strong position to help clients interpret these shifts for their own real estate decisions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September brought some notable shifts in the U.S. housing landscape. After eight months of steady momentum, pending home sales finally dipped year-over-year\u2014reflecting how higher borrowing costs have taken some steam out of buyer activity. We\u2019re also seeing contract signings ease off, homes taking around 60 days to sell, and mortgage rates rising from about 6% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}