{"id":4929,"date":"2019-11-12T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/homeownership-rate-remains-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:04:51","slug":"homeownership-rate-remains-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/homeownership-rate-remains-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeownership Rate Remains on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191112-KCM-Share-549x300.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Homeownership Rate Remains on the Rise | Simplifying The Market\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191112-KCM-Share-549x300.jpg 549w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/07131424\/20191112-KCM-Share.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\"><\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter of 2019, the U.S. homeownership rate rose again, signaling another strong indicator of the current housing market.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-41177\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>U.S. Census Bureau<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/housing\/hvs\/files\/currenthvspress.pdf\">announced<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe homeownership rate of 64.8 percent was not statistically different from the rate in the third quarter 2018 (64.4 percent), but was 0.7 percentage points higher than the rate in the second quarter 2019 (64.1 percent).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191112-MEM-ENG.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41178\" src=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191112-MEM-ENG.jpg\" alt=\"Homeownership Rate Remains on the Rise | Simplifying The Market\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191112-MEM-ENG.jpg 720w, https:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/07131334\/20191112-MEM-ENG-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/a>Today there is still a lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2019\/10\/29\/thinking-of-selling-your-home-the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part\/?a=364401-3b56ebb70dafbecc4de42825d439e92e\">inventory<\/a>, particularly at the entry and middle-level segments of the market, but that is not stopping buyers from making every effort to pursue homeownership. The many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2019\/09\/19\/one-of-the-top-reasons-to-own-a-home\/?a=364401-3b56ebb70dafbecc4de42825d439e92e\">financial<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2019\/02\/26\/what-are-the-benefits-of-becoming-a-homeowner\/?a=364401-3b56ebb70dafbecc4de42825d439e92e\">non-financial<\/a> benefits continue to drive the American Dream and will likely do so for generations to come.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bottom Line <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re thinking of buying a home, let\u2019s get together to make your dream a reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third quarter of 2019, the U.S. homeownership rate rose again, signaling another strong indicator of the current housing market. The U.S. Census Bureau announced, \u201cThe homeownership rate of 64.8 percent was not statistically different from the rate in the third quarter 2018 (64.4 percent), but was 0.7 percentage points higher than the rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-buyers","category-for-sellers","category-housing-market-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}