{"id":12,"date":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/zanyartherealtor-com\/2026\/09\/10\/falling-home-prices-drive-record-10th-straight-quarter-of-affordability-gains\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:00:00","slug":"falling-home-prices-drive-record-10th-straight-quarter-of-affordability-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/falling-home-prices-drive-record-10th-straight-quarter-of-affordability-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling home prices drive record 10th straight quarter of affordability gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>It\u2019s not every day we see housing affordability improve for ten straight quarters, but that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened: home prices have eased enough to counterbalance rising mortgage rates, bringing payments to 51.1% of median income. As someone who\u2019s spent years navigating Vancouver\u2019s unique market, I know firsthand how significant this shift is\u2014though Vancouver remains the most challenging city for affordability. Sustained improvement here will depend on steady income growth and balanced price trends. My background in real estate investment and in-depth understanding of construction and local bylaws help me keep a close eye on these trends, so clients can move forward with confidence, even in a market as dynamic as ours.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxQSXBuMUZ5dkZid19qUF9CUGVaUFBCTDQ5NkxTdVpLemc0MVlPelNQZElFeVFDQzdIY25FXzdtRkFkTlRnMjhuODlWX1VEVUQxRkhrWkRTUmFPa0NkZi1ZWEVrRUtzeVdvRWlLdFZ1VVRVMGE0VlBQcFpHUWJIU3hrZkE4WV9mQWlxQXFkOU1WMWp0ZTE5MUctejl3TGktUTBGbXBRTHRDcjBsTmJ2dzM2eTJENXNVVG9mWkFUc3dIM08xczA?oc=5&#038;hl=en-US&#038;gl=US&#038;ceid=US:en\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every day we see housing affordability improve for ten straight quarters, but that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened: home prices have eased enough to counterbalance rising mortgage rates, bringing payments to 51.1% of median income. As someone who\u2019s spent years navigating Vancouver\u2019s unique market, I know firsthand how significant this shift is\u2014though Vancouver remains the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanyartherealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}