{"id":76550,"date":"2026-01-02T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76550\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:22:09","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-1-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/76550\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 1\/2\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The housing market<\/p>\n<p>Home sales in the Lehigh Valley are expected to reach about 6,500 units in 2025, roughly matching 2024 levels. Prices, however, are running 4 to 5% higher than last year. Nationally, existing home sales have averaged just over 4 million units annually since 2023, a pace expected to continue in 2025, with prices projected to rise about 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 1\/2\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The housing market Home sales in the Lehigh Valley are expected to reach about 6,500 units in 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-76550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}