{"id":1040,"date":"2026-07-15T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:00:00","slug":"us-buyers-gain-leverage-despite-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/us-buyers-gain-leverage-despite-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"US Buyers Gain Leverage Despite Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/mark-mallorca\/housing-sales-prices-remotion-videos-a00b\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>The median US home-sale price reached $400.9K, \u2191~2% yearly, for the four weeks ending June 7, crossing $400K for the first time.<br \/>\nTypical monthly payments sat near an 11-mo high at $2.6K, with stubborn prices and mid-6% mortgage rates stretching budgets for many buyers.<br \/>\nPending sales registered \u2193&lt;1% recently, while total homes for sale stayed essentially flat and new listings were slightly higher, keeping supply tight.<br \/>\nPrices reflected deals negotiated in Early-Q2, when rates were lower and demand was stronger, so current closings may lag today&#039;s conditions for buyers.<br \/>\nBuyer\u2019s market conditions are giving many US buyers room to negotiate, ask for seller concessions, and seek terms fitting current budgets more closely.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The median US home-sale price reached $400.9K, \u2191~2% yearly, for the four weeks ending June 7, crossing $400K for the first time. Typical monthly payments sat near an 11-mo high at $2.6K, with stubborn prices and mid-6% mortgage rates stretching budgets for many buyers. Pending sales registered \u2193&lt;1% recently, while total homes for sale stayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markmallorca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}