{"id":32,"date":"2026-09-14T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/homesbykatrinaromero-com\/2026\/09\/14\/three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:00:00","slug":"three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/three-u-s-housing-signals-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Three U.S. Housing Signals for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/katrina-romero-jones\/us-housing-september-remotion-videos-ef8d\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>September brought a few notable shifts in the U.S. housing market. Pending home sales turned slightly negative year-over-year, which ended an eight-month stretch of gains. It\u2019s a sign that higher borrowing costs have started to cool buyer activity, and I\u2019ve seen similar patterns here in Colorado. Contract signings softened compared to last year, homes now take about 60 days to sell, and mortgage rates have moved up\u2014from around 6% in late Q1 to the high-6% range recently.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, buyers have found a bit more leverage. The median list price slipped to $424,500, price cuts are happening on nearly 20% of listings, delistings have decreased, and active inventory is up about 4%. Yet even with more homes available, national inventory remains roughly 11% below typical pre-pandemic levels. Beneath the surface, the U.S. still faces an ongoing housing shortage despite buyers\u2019 hesitation.<\/p>\n<p>Industry experts, myself included, are keeping a close eye on seller delistings, shifts in pricing strategies, and how regional trends might continue to narrow as both buyers and sellers adapt to firmer borrowing costs. After nearly three decades in real estate, I know that understanding these signals is key to making informed decisions, no matter which side of the transaction you\u2019re on.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September brought a few notable shifts in the U.S. housing market. Pending home sales turned slightly negative year-over-year, which ended an eight-month stretch of gains. It\u2019s a sign that higher borrowing costs have started to cool buyer activity, and I\u2019ve seen similar patterns here in Colorado. Contract signings softened compared to last year, homes now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbykatrinaromero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}