{"id":21,"date":"2026-09-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/zanarealestate-com\/2026\/09\/24\/top-cities-where-homebuyers-find-lower-prices-now\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:00:00","slug":"top-cities-where-homebuyers-find-lower-prices-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/top-cities-where-homebuyers-find-lower-prices-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Cities Where Homebuyers Find Lower Prices Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Home sellers nationwide are lowering asking prices as the housing market cools, with median listing prices per square foot falling 1.8% year-over-year in August, marking the 10th consecutive month of decline. Prices dropped most in pandemic boomtowns like Austin (-8.1%) and Tampa (-5.6%), while some markets like Providence saw increases. Elevated mortgage rates and increased inventory are driving sellers to reduce prices to attract cautious buyers.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/personalfinance\/real-estate\/2026\/09\/09\/home-prices-declining-us-metro-areas\/91676419007\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home sellers nationwide are lowering asking prices as the housing market cools, with median listing prices per square foot falling 1.8% year-over-year in August, marking the 10th consecutive month of decline. Prices dropped most in pandemic boomtowns like Austin (-8.1%) and Tampa (-5.6%), while some markets like Providence saw increases. Elevated mortgage rates and increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}