{"id":9762,"date":"2026-07-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisamillerpllc.com\/staging\/?p=9762"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:00:00","slug":"housing-market-normalizes-in-h1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamillerpllc.com\/staging\/housing-market-normalizes-in-h1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Market Normalizes in H1 2026"},"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\/lisa-miller-2\/first-half-housing-lessons\"\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>H1 2026 showed normalization, not a boom or bust, as higher rates, improving choice, and resilient demand created a more balanced market.<br \/>\nAvg. H1 inventory reached 731K homes, with 2.44 mo of supply, giving buyers more choice as the market became more balanced overall.<br \/>\nDemand stayed resilient: weekly absorbed inventory averaged ~78K homes in H1, showing buyers remained active even as affordability pressures persisted across the market.<br \/>\nRecent data showed ~82K new listings and &gt;420K homes under contract, pointing to present demand and limited listing activity shaping market capacity.<br \/>\nFor H2, watch whether listings recover, homeowner mobility improves, and local fundamentals keep shaping outcomes beyond any single market narrative for buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H1 2026 showed normalization, not a boom or bust, as higher rates, improving choice, and resilient demand created a more balanced market. Avg. H1 inventory reached 731K homes, with 2.44 mo of supply, giving buyers more choice as the market became more balanced overall. Demand stayed resilient: weekly absorbed inventory averaged ~78K homes in H1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paOTA9-2xs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9888,"url":"https:\/\/lisamillerpllc.com\/staging\/us-housing-prices-keep-climbing\/","url_meta":{"origin":9762,"position":0},"title":"US Housing Prices Keep Climbing","author":"admin","date":"August 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many buyers hoped for better affordability, but home prices stayed resilient nationally as demand held up after the pandemic buying frenzy cooled. 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