{"id":553,"date":"2025-12-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:00:00","slug":"2026-homebuyer-expectations-virtual-tours-ai-and-instant-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"2026 Homebuyer Expectations: Virtual Tours, AI, and Instant Approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Technology is transforming homebuying in 2026 with AI tools helping buyers find homes and plan finances, while virtual tours and online applications simplify the process. Same-day mortgage pre-approvals are common, speeding up purchases. Lenders now focus more on advising informed buyers. Experts predict a 14% rise in home prices but a 6% drop in mortgage rates, potentially lowering long-term costs.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rate.com\/mortgage\/resource\/2026-homebuyer-expectations\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is transforming homebuying in 2026 with AI tools helping buyers find homes and plan finances, while virtual tours and online applications simplify the process. Same-day mortgage pre-approvals are common, speeding up purchases. Lenders now focus more on advising informed buyers. Experts predict a 14% rise in home prices but a 6% drop in mortgage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}