{"id":31,"date":"2026-09-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/martygum-com\/2026\/09\/26\/will-a-cooling-labor-market-keep-mortgage-rates-below-7-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:00:00","slug":"will-a-cooling-labor-market-keep-mortgage-rates-below-7-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/26\/will-a-cooling-labor-market-keep-mortgage-rates-below-7-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a cooling labor market keep mortgage rates below 7% in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>As someone who\u2019s watched the Lake of the Ozarks market evolve for over four decades, I keep a close eye on how broader economic shifts might impact our local real estate landscape. Recent labor data is pointing to slower job growth, and while unemployment has dipped a bit, that\u2019s largely due to fewer people participating in the workforce. These trends can influence mortgage rates, and it\u2019s worth noting that rates may remain below 7% into 2026. However, with inflation pressures still on the horizon and the Fed targeting 2% inflation\u2014especially given ongoing geopolitical and AI-related risks\u2014we could see a rate hike as early as 2027. Staying informed about these changes is just one way I work to keep your real estate experience as smooth and stress-free as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/will-a-cooling-labor-market-keep-mortgage-rates-below-7-in-2026\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who\u2019s watched the Lake of the Ozarks market evolve for over four decades, I keep a close eye on how broader economic shifts might impact our local real estate landscape. Recent labor data is pointing to slower job growth, and while unemployment has dipped a bit, that\u2019s largely due to fewer people participating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}