{"id":15,"date":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/drhomesrealtor-com\/2026\/09\/06\/homebuyers-enjoy-more-choices-as-pending-sales-slow\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:00:00","slug":"homebuyers-enjoy-more-choices-as-pending-sales-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/06\/homebuyers-enjoy-more-choices-as-pending-sales-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebuyers Enjoy More Choices as Pending Sales Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Pending home contracts are 30% below pre-pandemic levels, while payroll employment is 5% higher, indicating strong pent-up demand. The US lost 23,000 jobs in July, with 234,000 leaving the labor force, keeping unemployment at 4.1%. Some metro areas saw gains in pending sales, led by Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk at 17.2%. The Midwest had the smallest monthly decline at 0.7% and showed 1.7% annual growth.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/us\/mortgage-industry\/market-updates\/pending-home-sales-hit-2026-low\/586540\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pending home contracts are 30% below pre-pandemic levels, while payroll employment is 5% higher, indicating strong pent-up demand. The US lost 23,000 jobs in July, with 234,000 leaving the labor force, keeping unemployment at 4.1%. Some metro areas saw gains in pending sales, led by Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk at 17.2%. The Midwest had the smallest monthly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drhomesrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}