{"id":50,"date":"2026-06-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:00:00","slug":"how-to-buy-a-house-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"How to buy a house in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>In 2026, home prices and mortgage rates remain high, though some areas see price declines. Key steps to buying a home include defining goals, saving for a down payment (often less than 20%), checking credit, setting a realistic budget, getting preapproved for a mortgage, finding a local agent, making an offer, scheduling inspections, finalizing the mortgage, doing a final walk-through, and closing. Budget for extra costs like taxes, insurance, and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thederrick.com\/news\/entertainment\/how-to-buy-a-house-in-2026\/article_9ae2658f-6905-5e3e-b536-76dd14e2b35c.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, home prices and mortgage rates remain high, though some areas see price declines. Key steps to buying a home include defining goals, saving for a down payment (often less than 20%), checking credit, setting a realistic budget, getting preapproved for a mortgage, finding a local agent, making an offer, scheduling inspections, finalizing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","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\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisteamsc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}