{"id":7,"date":"2026-09-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/samuelbroadway-com\/2026\/09\/21\/us-home-prices-face-real-value-erosion-spotlight-on-your-home-needs-and-you\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:00:00","slug":"us-home-prices-face-real-value-erosion-spotlight-on-your-home-needs-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/21\/us-home-prices-face-real-value-erosion-spotlight-on-your-home-needs-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"US Home Prices Face Real Value Erosion | Spotlight on your Home needs, &#8230;and You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/samuel-broadway\/home-prices-erosion-remotion-videos-8a73\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Having watched the Charleston market evolve since the late 1980s, I&#039;ve seen plenty of housing cycles\u2014but this current stretch is unique. In Q2 2026, US home prices continued their upward climb on paper, but when you look beneath the surface, the story shifts. One federal index actually held flat month-over-month from mid- to late Q2, even after adjusting for seasonality. Nationally, home values showed about 1.5% annual appreciation in late Q2, up modestly from 1% earlier in the quarter, but still lagging behind inflation, which hovered near 3.5%. That means, for the 13th month in a row, real home values\u2014what your dollar actually gets you\u2014have slipped after inflation. The silver lining? Lower inflation and steadier nominal gains have slowed the pace of that erosion. Since early 2012, one federal measure has logged positive annual appreciation each quarter, underscoring the long-term resilience of home prices, even when inflation applies pressure. As we turn the corner into the second half of the year, affordability remains front and center. Typical monthly payments on existing single-family homes have risen again, putting more strain on first-time buyers trying to step into the market. Decades in this business have shown me: resilience is key, but so is understanding what numbers really mean for your plans and your wallet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having watched the Charleston market evolve since the late 1980s, I&#039;ve seen plenty of housing cycles\u2014but this current stretch is unique. In Q2 2026, US home prices continued their upward climb on paper, but when you look beneath the surface, the story shifts. One federal index actually held flat month-over-month from mid- to late Q2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samuelbroadway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}