{"id":4,"date":"2026-08-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/davidmaldonadorealtor-com\/2026\/08\/30\/us-homebuyers-find-opportunities-as-market-cools\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:00:00","slug":"us-homebuyers-find-opportunities-as-market-cools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/30\/us-homebuyers-find-opportunities-as-market-cools\/","title":{"rendered":"US Homebuyers Find Opportunities as Market Cools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>July marked a significant turning point in the US housing market, with home sales dropping to a two-year low. Pending sales fell by 2.5%, as buyers faced record-high median prices of $407,730 and saw the 30-year mortgage rate climb to 6.54%. In this kind of market, negotiation and strategy are more important than ever. As someone who\u2019s spent years honing my negotiation skills\u2014first in the Army and now as your local DC and Maryland realtor\u2014I know that staying proactive and putting clients first can make all the difference. Challenges like these are where a solid approach and determination really pay off for homebuyers and sellers alike.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/us\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/us-home-sales-hit-two-year-low-as-prices-and-rates-bite\/585928\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July marked a significant turning point in the US housing market, with home sales dropping to a two-year low. Pending sales fell by 2.5%, as buyers faced record-high median prices of $407,730 and saw the 30-year mortgage rate climb to 6.54%. In this kind of market, negotiation and strategy are more important than ever. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmaldonadorealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}