{"id":172334,"date":"2026-08-07T19:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/k-shaped-economy-shows-up-in-housing-luxury-sales-rise-as-starter-home-buyers-struggle\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:30:07","slug":"k-shaped-economy-shows-up-in-housing-luxury-sales-rise-as-starter-home-buyers-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/k-shaped-economy-shows-up-in-housing-luxury-sales-rise-as-starter-home-buyers-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"K-shaped economy shows up in housing: Luxury sales rise as starter-home buyers struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nEven as luxury homes fly off the market, sales of starter homes are down despite growing inventory and more price cuts, research shows.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : cnbc.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/07\/housing-k-shaped-economy-luxury-starter-homes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K-shaped economy shows up in housing: Luxury sales rise as starter-home buyers struggle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Even as luxury homes fly off the market, sales of starter homes are down despite&#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-172334","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-IPA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33508,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-central-london-homes-fail-to-find-buyers-as-luxury-market-slumps\/","url_meta":{"origin":172334,"position":0},"title":"New central London homes fail to find buyers as luxury market slumps","date":"November 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The number of unsold central-London homes under construction will reach a record high this year, increasing the risk that developers' bets on rising demand for luxury properties will go sour.Homes being built without a buyer secured will reach 10,829, a 24 per cent rise from the end of last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32797,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/luxury-home-prices-see-marginal-rise-in-q3\/","url_meta":{"origin":172334,"position":1},"title":"Luxury home prices see marginal rise in Q3","date":"November 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Luxury homes here have seen only minimal price growth in the last quarter. 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