{"id":754,"date":"2026-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:00:00","slug":"57-of-counties-say-owning-beatsrenting-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/57-of-counties-say-owning-beatsrenting-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"57% of Counties Say Owning BeatsRenting in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/zee-maestre-361550\/home-buying-us-cheaper\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Owning beats renting in 57% of U.S. counties\u2014but upfront costs still block buyers.<br \/>\nWages grew faster than shelter costs in most places\u2014relief for buyers possible.<br \/>\nHidden costs like taxes, repairs, HOA, insurance add ~$16K\/year per homeowner.<br \/>\nFewer rental units, stricter density rules tilt affordability toward homeownership.<br \/>\nForecast: Home prices expected +3\u20135% nationally in 2026, rents +2\u20133%.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owning beats renting in 57% of U.S. counties\u2014but upfront costs still block buyers. Wages grew faster than shelter costs in most places\u2014relief for buyers possible. Hidden costs like taxes, repairs, HOA, insurance add ~$16K\/year per homeowner. Fewer rental units, stricter density rules tilt affordability toward homeownership. Forecast: Home prices expected +3\u20135% nationally in 2026, rents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtorzee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}