{"id":34,"date":"2026-05-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:00:00","slug":"home-purchase-activity-up-20-over-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Home Purchase Activity Up 20% Over Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Mortgage applications fell 1.6% last week after a prior 7.9% rise, with refinance applications down 4% due to a slight increase in 30-year fixed mortgage rates to 6.37%. Purchase applications rose nearly 2% weekly and were over 20% higher than last year, reflecting improved homebuying sentiment amid increased housing inventory. The refinance share dropped to 42.5%, while adjustable-rate mortgage activity rose to 8.3%. FHA application share declined, VA and USDA shares remained steady.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rismedia.com\/2026\/04\/29\/home-purchase-activity-up-20-percent-over-last-year\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage applications fell 1.6% last week after a prior 7.9% rise, with refinance applications down 4% due to a slight increase in 30-year fixed mortgage rates to 6.37%. Purchase applications rose nearly 2% weekly and were over 20% higher than last year, reflecting improved homebuying sentiment amid increased housing inventory. The refinance share dropped to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}