{"id":1844,"date":"2026-10-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:00:00","slug":"us-home-prices-what-the-median-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/19\/us-home-prices-what-the-median-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"US Home Prices: What the Median Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/marisa-cain\/new-existing-prices-remotion-videos-1523\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Q2 2026, the US median new single-family price was $410.7K, while the existing-home median reached $435.7K, a $25K national gap that quarter.<br \/>\nThat marked the biggest separation in national medians, extending a reversal that began in Q2 2024, when existing-home prices started topping new homes.<br \/>\nMany owners with pandemic-era low mortgage rates stayed put, limiting supply, while builders used smaller lots, smaller homes, and incentives to reach buyers.<br \/>\nThe national gap did not describe every US market; regional mix, home types, lot sizes, and rising construction costs all shaped median comparisons.<br \/>\nBy Q2 2026, new-home prices were \u2193~1% yearly, while existing-home yearly growth slowed to ~2% after twelve straight quarters of increases nationally.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Q2 2026, the US median new single-family price was $410.7K, while the existing-home median reached $435.7K, a $25K national gap that quarter. That marked the biggest separation in national medians, extending a reversal that began in Q2 2024, when existing-home prices started topping new homes. Many owners with pandemic-era low mortgage rates stayed put, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marisacainhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}