{"id":45,"date":"2026-10-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:00:00","slug":"starter-home-market-cools-buyers-gain-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/04\/starter-home-market-cools-buyers-gain-leverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Starter-home market cools, buyers gain leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>We&#039;re seeing a shift in the starter-home market: more affordable listings are popping up, price cuts are becoming common, and bidding wars have eased up. This has contributed to a 5.4% drop in sales for starter homes, while luxury sales actually increased by 6.2%. Mortgage rates are hovering near 6.8%, which is still a challenge for many, but the upside is that buyers have more leverage and less competition than before. Let&#039;s get you home.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.briefs.co\/news\/starter-home-market-is-finally-cooling-a-bit-and-first-time\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#039;re seeing a shift in the starter-home market: more affordable listings are popping up, price cuts are becoming common, and bidding wars have eased up. This has contributed to a 5.4% drop in sales for starter homes, while luxury sales actually increased by 6.2%. Mortgage rates are hovering near 6.8%, which is still a challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorielayman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}