{"id":24,"date":"2026-09-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/kimkroner-com\/2026\/09\/18\/stable-mortgage-rates-offer-buyers-more-choices-in-august\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:00:00","slug":"stable-mortgage-rates-offer-buyers-more-choices-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/18\/stable-mortgage-rates-offer-buyers-more-choices-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Stable Mortgage Rates Offer Buyers More Choices in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>August brought a noticeable shift to our local Northern Virginia market, with mortgage rates hovering around 6.7% and slowing the pace of home sales\u2014marking the end of an eight-month stretch of growing pending sales. We\u2019ve now seen median list prices dip for the tenth consecutive month, and inventory has edged up slightly. For many families considering a move in communities like Ashburn, Brambleton, or One Loudoun, these changes underscore the importance of timing and understanding neighborhood trends. From my perspective as a Principal Broker deeply rooted in these micro-markets, it\u2019s clear that a significant drop in rates may be needed to spark renewed activity this fall. Navigating these fluctuations is all about pairing real-time data with local insight\u2014something I\u2019ve built my practice around for the past 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.briefs.co\/news\/mortgage-rates-bite-pending-sales-slip-as-price-cuts-catch-u\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August brought a noticeable shift to our local Northern Virginia market, with mortgage rates hovering around 6.7% and slowing the pace of home sales\u2014marking the end of an eight-month stretch of growing pending sales. We\u2019ve now seen median list prices dip for the tenth consecutive month, and inventory has edged up slightly. For many families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kimkroner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}