{"id":30,"date":"2026-09-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/jdshomes-net\/2026\/09\/25\/home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:00:00","slug":"home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/25\/home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Prices Rise 2.6% YoY Despite Expanding Inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Even with more homes on the market, we\u2019re seeing national home prices continue to climb\u2014up 2.6% year over year, reaching a median of $400,000 in July. Home sales also saw a bump of 2.9%, and inventory grew by 4.4%. What\u2019s interesting is how this growth plays out across property types: single-family homes grew by 2.5%, condos by 2.3%, and townhomes by 0.8%. After more than two decades working throughout Lake, McHenry, and Cook Counties\u2014and southern Wisconsin\u2014I&#039;ve seen firsthand how local market dynamics can differ from national trends. If you\u2019re weighing options in our area, it\u2019s always worth looking at not just the numbers, but what they mean for your next move or investment.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink.mba.org\/mba-newslinks\/2026\/august\/\/home-prices-rise-2-6-yoy-despite-expanding-inventory-homes-com-finds\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with more homes on the market, we\u2019re seeing national home prices continue to climb\u2014up 2.6% year over year, reaching a median of $400,000 in July. Home sales also saw a bump of 2.9%, and inventory grew by 4.4%. What\u2019s interesting is how this growth plays out across property types: single-family homes grew by 2.5%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","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\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdshomes.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}