{"id":9,"date":"2026-09-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/obxlifestyles-com\/2026\/09\/05\/us-home-sales-remain-strong-despite-record-high-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:00:00","slug":"us-home-sales-remain-strong-despite-record-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/05\/us-home-sales-remain-strong-despite-record-high-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"US Home Sales Remain Strong Despite Record-High Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>July brought a 1.7% dip in U.S. existing home sales, bringing the annual rate to 4.06 million. Meanwhile, the median home price climbed to a record $434,100\u2014up 2%\u2014while mortgage rates reached 6.69%, making affordability an even greater challenge for many buyers. With inventory still tight at 1.54 million homes, these numbers reflect a market defined by competition and limited choices. Here in the Outer Banks\u2014especially in distinctive communities like Carova\u2014I&#039;ve seen how these national trends play out on a local scale. Every transaction requires careful strategy and local insight to help clients navigate these unique conditions and maximize value, whether buying or selling along our one-of-a-kind coastline.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/finance\/streettalk\/home-sales-mortgage\/2026\/08\/11\/id\/1265723\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July brought a 1.7% dip in U.S. existing home sales, bringing the annual rate to 4.06 million. Meanwhile, the median home price climbed to a record $434,100\u2014up 2%\u2014while mortgage rates reached 6.69%, making affordability an even greater challenge for many buyers. With inventory still tight at 1.54 million homes, these numbers reflect a market defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obxlifestyles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}