{"id":53,"date":"2026-10-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/martygum-com\/2026\/10\/07\/us-existing-home-sales-hit-a-14-month-low-let-me-put-my-30-years-of-experience-in-lake-of-the-ozarks-real-estate-to-work-for-you\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:00:00","slug":"us-existing-home-sales-hit-a-14-month-low-let-me-put-my-30-years-of-experience-in-lake-of-the-ozarks-real-estate-to-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/07\/us-existing-home-sales-hit-a-14-month-low-let-me-put-my-30-years-of-experience-in-lake-of-the-ozarks-real-estate-to-work-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"US Existing Home Sales Hit a 14-Month Low | Let me put my 30+ years of experience in Lake of the Ozarks real estate to work for you!"},"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\/marty-gum-2196801\/existing-home-sales-hit-14-month-low-remotion-videos-09ef\" 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>Existing-home sales across the US have dropped to a 14-month low, dipping just below 4 million at a 3.98M annual pace in mid-Q3\u2014down 2% from the previous month. For buyers, this means a shifting landscape: with a 30-year fixed mortgage averaging close to 7% and inventory growing to 4.9 months of supply, there are now more choices on the market than we&#039;ve seen in a while. Interestingly, the median price reached $429,100\u2014a new mid-Q3 record\u2014driven largely by the continued strength of higher-priced homes. Rising wages and steady job growth are still fueling demand, but with more listings, buyers are finding better room for negotiation. First-time buyers accounted for 30% of purchases, and cash deals made up 27%, with homes spending an average of 31 days on the market. As someone who\u2019s navigated many changing markets over four decades at the Lake of the Ozarks, I always keep an eye on these national trends to help clients move forward with confidence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing-home sales across the US have dropped to a 14-month low, dipping just below 4 million at a 3.98M annual pace in mid-Q3\u2014down 2% from the previous month. For buyers, this means a shifting landscape: with a 30-year fixed mortgage averaging close to 7% and inventory growing to 4.9 months of supply, there are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","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\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martygum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}