{"id":23,"date":"2026-09-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/jdshomes-net\/2026\/09\/17\/us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:00:00","slug":"us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/17\/us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low\/","title":{"rendered":"US Confidence Hits Seven-Mo Low"},"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\/james-d-smith\/consumer-confidence-just-hit-a-seven-month-low-heres-whats-driving-it-3c3d\"\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>It\u2019s interesting to see how US consumer confidence has softened to a seven-month low this mid-Q3, even as people feel a bit better about their current situations. The present-conditions index jumped about 7 points to 121, but the expectations gauge dropped roughly 6 points to 68\u2014dipping beneath a level that\u2019s often flagged as a recession warning. Early in Q3, 23,000 jobs were cut and unemployment nudged up to around 4%. Notably, this shift was more about folks leaving the workforce than it was about a hiring downturn. For those of us closely following the real estate market across Lake, McHenry, and Cook Counties, I\u2019ve noticed that homebuying expectations only eased slightly and continued to climb, even as around 61% of people still anticipated higher interest rates. With federal policymakers keeping rates steady and markets not banking on much short-term relief, borrowing costs are likely to remain elevated through year-end. As someone who\u2019s spent decades helping clients navigate both residential and investment properties in our area, I find it\u2019s times like these that call for careful analysis and local knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s interesting to see how US consumer confidence has softened to a seven-month low this mid-Q3, even as people feel a bit better about their current situations. The present-conditions index jumped about 7 points to 121, but the expectations gauge dropped roughly 6 points to 68\u2014dipping beneath a level that\u2019s often flagged as a recession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}