{"id":138,"date":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","slug":"united-states-buyers-gain-negotiating-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/25\/united-states-buyers-gain-negotiating-power\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Buyers Gain Negotiating Power"},"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\/frank-mellace\/us-housing-buyers-sellers-remotion-videos\" 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>The United States currently has ~44% more sellers than buyers, giving qualified purchasers more room to negotiate prices, concessions, and contract terms.<br \/>\nElevated financing costs remain a hurdle, but larger inventory gives prepared buyers more choices and stronger leverage than during recent seller-dominated years.<br \/>\nNew construction shows added flexibility: ~36% of builders priced \u2193~6%, creating openings to request closing help, repairs, or rate buydowns, where available.<br \/>\nBuyer strategy matters now: compare lenders, strengthen credit, and search markets with greater home availability before choosing property size or location trade-offs.<br \/>\nA trade economist projected possible mortgage-rate relief later in 2026, while buyers with stable jobs and organized finances can act strategically now.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States currently has ~44% more sellers than buyers, giving qualified purchasers more room to negotiate prices, concessions, and contract terms. Elevated financing costs remain a hurdle, but larger inventory gives prepared buyers more choices and stronger leverage than during recent seller-dominated years. New construction shows added flexibility: ~36% of builders priced \u2193~6%, creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homessoldbyfrank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}