{"id":163,"date":"2026-10-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/chrisdrewer-com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:00:00","slug":"homeowners-report-greater-financial-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/22\/homeowners-report-greater-financial-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners Report Greater Financial Satisfaction"},"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\/chris-drewer\/homeowners-financial-satisfaction-remotion-videos-cd3a\" 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>A survey found near 70% of homeowners felt financially satisfied, versus under 50% of nonhomeowners, suggesting ownership often aligned with stronger money confidence.<br \/>\nFinancial strain still showed up: the survey found low-40% of homeowners lived paycheck to paycheck, compared with just over 60% of nonhomeowners.<br \/>\nThe bigger advantage came over time, as homeownership was presented as a path to equity growth and broader wealth accumulation beyond monthly budgets.<br \/>\nResearch from a Real Estate portal linked buying by age 30 to ~23% higher net worth by age 50, or ~$119K more.<br \/>\nKey caution: stretching too far to buy can squeeze other priorities, since housing costs in the ~30% to 40% range may limit savings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey found near 70% of homeowners felt financially satisfied, versus under 50% of nonhomeowners, suggesting ownership often aligned with stronger money confidence. Financial strain still showed up: the survey found low-40% of homeowners lived paycheck to paycheck, compared with just over 60% of nonhomeowners. The bigger advantage came over time, as homeownership was presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"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.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}