{"id":39,"date":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/teitsmateam-com\/2026\/10\/09\/what-did-pending-home-sales-look-like-in-august-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","slug":"what-did-pending-home-sales-look-like-in-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/09\/what-did-pending-home-sales-look-like-in-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"What did pending home sales look like in August 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>August 2026 brought a slight uptick in pending home sales nationwide, with a 0.3% monthly increase, though year-over-year numbers dipped by 4.7%. The West and South regions experienced modest gains, while the Midwest and Northeast\u2014including our own communities along the lakeshore\u2014saw a decline. With mortgage rates averaging 6.67%, we\u2019re seeing fall and winter shaping up as seasons where buyers may have a bit more room to negotiate. As someone who\u2019s guided clients through all sorts of market shifts across Spring Lake, Grand Haven, and Muskegon, I know how important it is to stay informed and ready to adapt\u2014especially if you\u2019re considering a move in our ZIPs (49456, 49417, 49442, 49444, 49460).<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rate.com\/mortgage\/resource\/housing-report-09-17-26\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2026 brought a slight uptick in pending home sales nationwide, with a 0.3% monthly increase, though year-over-year numbers dipped by 4.7%. The West and South regions experienced modest gains, while the Midwest and Northeast\u2014including our own communities along the lakeshore\u2014saw a decline. With mortgage rates averaging 6.67%, we\u2019re seeing fall and winter shaping up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teitsmateam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}