{"id":5089,"date":"2024-09-27T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/27\/buy-now-or-wait\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:01:26","slug":"buy-now-or-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/27\/buy-now-or-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Now, or Wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Buy-Now-or-Wait-KCM-Share-original.jpg?w=1220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Buy Now, or Wait? Simplifying The Market\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear: both; max-width: 100%;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Buy-Now-or-Wait-MEM-original.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Buy-Now-or-Wait-MEM-original.jpg?w=1220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"No Caption Received\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Some Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019re wondering if you should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2024\/09\/24\/the-down-payment-assistance-you-didnt-know-about\/?a=783612-02a11606fc81d6a6e402d49bc5bfe20b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">buy now<\/a> or wait, here\u2019s what you need to know. <\/li>\n<li>If you wait for rates to drop more, you\u2019ll have to deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/26\/business\/mortgage-rates-falling-home-buying\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more competition<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/research-and-statistics\/housing-statistics\/existing-home-sales\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">higher prices<\/a> as additional buyers jump back in. But if you buy now, you\u2019d get ahead of that and have the chance to start building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2024\/9\/25\/why-buying-now-may-be-worth-it-in-the-long-run\/?a=783612-02a11606fc81d6a6e402d49bc5bfe20b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">equity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Should you buy now or wait? Connect with a real estate agent and talk through it together, so you can make your best decision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Highlights If you\u2019re wondering if you should buy now or wait, here\u2019s what you need to know. If you wait for rates to drop more, you\u2019ll have to deal with more competition and higher prices as additional buyers jump back in. But if you buy now, you\u2019d get ahead of that and have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[29,27,20,18,28],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-insight","tag-idaho-real-estate","tag-north-idaho-homes","tag-rain-silverhawk","tag-real-estate","tag-sandpoint-idaho"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Buy-Now-or-Wait-KCM-Share-original.jpg?fit=750%2C410&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdz2Zu-1k5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}