{"id":917,"date":"2026-10-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:00:00","slug":"us-homebuilder-confidence-falls-below-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/25\/us-homebuilder-confidence-falls-below-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"US Homebuilder Confidence Falls Below Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/emily-denney-1\/nahb-housing-market-index-for-september-32-vs-34-estimate-remotion-videos-6509\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A US builder sentiment index came in at 32 in Late-Q3, below the 34 estimate and Mid-Q3&#039;s 35, signaling softer single-family conditions.<br \/>\nKey internals also weakened: current sales conditions fell to 35, six-mo expectations to 37, while prospective-buyer traffic held at 23 in Late-Q3.<br \/>\nTo generate demand, more builders used discounts and incentives. Price-cutting reached ~4 in 10 builders, while the avg. reduction stayed near 6%.<br \/>\nSales incentives were used by ~2 in 3 builders in Late-Q3, the highest share since the prior Late-Q4, highlighting affordability strain and elevated borrowing costs.<br \/>\nThe main watchpoint is softer six-mo expectations, suggesting builders saw a tougher near-term path as they worked harder to convert prospective-buyer traffic into sales.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US builder sentiment index came in at 32 in Late-Q3, below the 34 estimate and Mid-Q3&#039;s 35, signaling softer single-family conditions. Key internals also weakened: current sales conditions fell to 35, six-mo expectations to 37, while prospective-buyer traffic held at 23 in Late-Q3. To generate demand, more builders used discounts and incentives. Price-cutting reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilydenneyliveinwyomingrealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}