{"id":17614,"date":"2026-06-17T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/?p=17614"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:18:44","slug":"rethinking-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/2026\/06\/17\/rethinking-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617kitchen.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617kitchen-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260617kitchen-768x729.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) was bullish on a rebound for 2026 existing home sales, with an expected 14% increase in sales when compared to 2025. While there were a lot of drivers for that expectation, I believe two of the main ones were mortgage interest rate declines and pent-up demand from a few years of low sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of June, the view of a 14% increase in 2026 has been reduced to 4%. Through the first part of this year, we haven\u2019t seen a material decline in mortgage interest rates or a material increase in buyer demand. That said, median home prices have continued to rise, so affordability hasn\u2019t really changed either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do believe that existing home sales will rebound to more \u201cnormal\u201d levels; however, I have to agree that 2026 doesn\u2019t look like it is going to be the year. We will inch closer, but there will still be a big gap at year end. Let\u2019s hope for continued momentum towards the roughly 25% gap we have between current activity for existing home sales and normal activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) was bullish on a rebound for 2026 existing home sales, with an expected 14% increase in sales when compared to 2025. While there were a lot of drivers for that expectation, I believe two of the main ones were mortgage interest rate declines and pent-up demand from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,1],"tags":[12,13,16,15,20,19,17],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-buying","category-home-selling","category-real-estate","tag-home-buying","tag-home-selling","tag-manatee-county","tag-real-estate","tag-real-estate-agent","tag-realtor","tag-sarasota-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17616,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions\/17616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgettbyzewski.com\/real-estate-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}