{"id":429,"date":"2025-12-28T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:00:00","slug":"nar-forecast-home-sales-expected-to-jump-14-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nar-forecast-home-sales-expected-to-jump-14-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NAR Forecast: Home Sales Expected to Jump 14% in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Existing-home sales are expected to rise about 14% in 2026, driven by easing mortgage rates, job growth, and market stability. Home prices are forecast to increase 4%, supported by steady demand and supply shortages. Mortgage rates may modestly decline to around 6%, improving affordability, especially in high-construction areas like Houston. First-time buyers face challenges due to affordability and debt, while agent use remains strong among buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/newsroom\/nar-forecast-home-sales-expected-to-jump-14-in-2026\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing-home sales are expected to rise about 14% in 2026, driven by easing mortgage rates, job growth, and market stability. Home prices are forecast to increase 4%, supported by steady demand and supply shortages. Mortgage rates may modestly decline to around 6%, improving affordability, especially in high-construction areas like Houston. First-time buyers face challenges due [&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-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vahidshams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}