{"id":324,"date":"2025-09-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:00:00","slug":"houston-home-affordability-climbs-to-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/houston-home-affordability-climbs-to-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston home affordability climbs to 39%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>In greater Houston, 39% of households could afford a median-priced home at $349,000, up from 37% last year, due to a 0.6% price decline and mortgage rates dropping to 6.79%. The average monthly mortgage payment fell to $2,460, requiring an annual income of $98,400. Houston is more affordable than the U.S. average, where only 34% can afford the median home. Rental affordability also improved, with 46% able to afford average rent of $2,100.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2025\/08\/13\/har-affordability-report-q2-2025\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In greater Houston, 39% of households could afford a median-priced home at $349,000, up from 37% last year, due to a 0.6% price decline and mortgage rates dropping to 6.79%. The average monthly mortgage payment fell to $2,460, requiring an annual income of $98,400. Houston is more affordable than the U.S. average, where only 34% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}