{"id":8,"date":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/brooksgroupkw-com\/2026\/09\/04\/what-did-pending-home-sales-look-like-in-july-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","slug":"what-did-pending-home-sales-look-like-in-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/04\/what-did-pending-home-sales-look-like-in-july-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"What did pending home sales look like in July 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Pending home sales in the U.S. decreased 2.3% month-over-month and 2.2% year-over-year in July, with all four regions showing declines except the Midwest, which rose 1.7% year-over-year. Pending contracts remain 30% below pre-pandemic levels despite employment gains. Mortgage rates averaged 6.67%, slightly down from the previous week but higher than last year. More homes are available, offering buyers greater choice.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rate.com\/mortgage\/resource\/housing-report-08-18-26\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pending home sales in the U.S. decreased 2.3% month-over-month and 2.2% year-over-year in July, with all four regions showing declines except the Midwest, which rose 1.7% year-over-year. Pending contracts remain 30% below pre-pandemic levels despite employment gains. Mortgage rates averaged 6.67%, slightly down from the previous week but higher than last year. More homes are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brooksgroupkw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}