{"id":631,"date":"2026-01-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:00:00","slug":"2026-homebuyers-buy-early-or-wait-until-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"2026 Homebuyers: Buy Early or Wait Until Later?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/adelya-almetova-2258751\/buy-home-new-year\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Rates could dip to high-5% by Dec &#039;26&#8230; while prices creep up 1-4%.<br \/>\nWait for a 5.9% rate? Price may rise to ~$423K, making your payment ~$2,354.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s an $85\/month saving\u2026 but rent averages $2K &amp; could keep rising.<br \/>\nInventory jumped 12.6%, but 38% of sellers pulled listings\u2014good houses go FAST.<br \/>\nCheck if you qualify: mortgage \u2264 28% of your monthly income.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rates could dip to high-5% by Dec &#039;26&#8230; while prices creep up 1-4%. Wait for a 5.9% rate? Price may rise to ~$423K, making your payment ~$2,354. That\u2019s an $85\/month saving\u2026 but rent averages $2K &amp; could keep rising. Inventory jumped 12.6%, but 38% of sellers pulled listings\u2014good houses go FAST. Check if you qualify: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adelyahomes.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}