{"id":60,"date":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:00:00","slug":"maryland-home-prices-rise-as-market-remains-competitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/maryland-home-prices-rise-as-market-remains-competitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Home Prices Rise as Market Remains Competitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>August brought a noticeable shift in Maryland\u2019s housing landscape. New listings across the state fell sharply\u2014down 23.6%\u2014and active inventory was also leaner by 13.7%. Yet, even with fewer homes available, the median price reached $445,000, and both median and average prices climbed around 2.4%. Home sales dipped 8.5%, with pending sales down just 1%. Having spent years navigating the Baltimore, Baltimore County, Harford County, Anne Arundel, and Howard real estate markets, I keep a close eye on these numbers to help clients understand what\u2019s driving local trends and how scarcity can impact both buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/thebaynet.com\/where-are-the-homes-maryland-new-listings-drop-23-6-in-august-median-price-hits-445000\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August brought a noticeable shift in Maryland\u2019s housing landscape. New listings across the state fell sharply\u2014down 23.6%\u2014and active inventory was also leaner by 13.7%. Yet, even with fewer homes available, the median price reached $445,000, and both median and average prices climbed around 2.4%. Home sales dipped 8.5%, with pending sales down just 1%. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","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\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisdrewer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}