{"id":111006,"date":"2019-09-23T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/low-mortgage-rates-higher-incomes-drive-us-pre-owned-home-sales-to-highest-in-more-than-a-year\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:05:57","slug":"low-mortgage-rates-higher-incomes-drive-us-pre-owned-home-sales-to-highest-in-more-than-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/low-mortgage-rates-higher-incomes-drive-us-pre-owned-home-sales-to-highest-in-more-than-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Low mortgage rates, higher incomes drive US pre-owned home sales to highest in more than a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSales of previously owned US homes rose in August to the highest in more than a year amid lower borrowing costs and sustained income gains, adding to signs the housing market is breaking out of a slump.Contract closings rose 1.3 per cent from the prior month to a 5.49 million annual rate, the fastest pace since March 2018, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday. That exceeded all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists, whose median projection was 5.38 million.The median\u2026&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/property\/international\/article\/3029957\/low-mortgage-rates-higher-incomes-drive-us-pre-owned-home\" target=\"_blank\">Low mortgage rates, higher incomes drive US pre-owned home sales to highest in more than a year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Sales of previously owned US homes rose in August to the highest in more than&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-sSq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":142728,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/existing-home-sales-rose-3-to-start-the-year-but-higher-mortgage-rates-are-already-hurting\/","url_meta":{"origin":111006,"position":0},"title":"Existing home sales rose 3% to start the year, but higher mortgage rates are already hurting","date":"February 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Sales of previously owned homes rose in January, boosted by lower mortgage interest rates of November and December.\r \r Source : cnbc.com\r Read more...Existing home sales rose 3% to start the year, but higher mortgage rates are already hurting","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":161575,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/existing-home-sales-stall-in-august-amid-higher-mortgage-rates\/","url_meta":{"origin":111006,"position":1},"title":"Existing home sales stall in August amid higher mortgage rates","date":"September 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Sales of previously owned homes barely budged in August compared with July, as mortgage rates remained stubbornly high. 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