{"id":100653,"date":"2025-10-24T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/100653\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:40:10","slug":"us-existing-home-sales-rise-to-fastest-pace-in-seven-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/100653\/","title":{"rendered":"US Existing-Home Sales Rise to Fastest Pace in Seven Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Sales of previously owned homes in the US rose modestly last month as lower mortgage rates and tamer price gains sparked some activity in the nation\u2019s long-stagnant housing market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Contract closings increased 1.5% to an annual rate of 4.06 million in September, the highest in seven months, according to National Association of Realtors figures released Thursday. That matched the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sales of previously owned homes in the US rose modestly last month as lower mortgage rates and tamer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[460,72,11491,4990,113,62422,32399,61,60,15925,2416,62421,62423,5766],"class_list":["post-100653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-business","tag-census-bureau","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-first-american-financial","tag-home-prices","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mortgage-bankers-association","tag-mortgage-rates","tag-seven","tag-stuart-paul","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}