{"id":5169,"date":"2024-11-01T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/01\/qa-how-do-presidential-elections-impact-the-housing-market\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T10:30:00","slug":"qa-how-do-presidential-elections-impact-the-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/01\/qa-how-do-presidential-elections-impact-the-housing-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: How Do Presidential Elections Impact the Housing Market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241101-QandA-How-Do-Presidential-Elections-Impact-the-Housing-Market-KCM-Share-original.jpg?w=1220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Q&amp;A: How Do Presidential Elections Impact the Housing Market? 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\/11\/QandA-How-Do-Presidential-Elections-Impact-the-Housing-Market-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\/11\/QandA-How-Do-Presidential-Elections-Impact-the-Housing-Market-MEM-original.jpg?w=1220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a house with a question and answer\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Some Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Even if you\u2019re not looking to move right away, you may have questions about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2024\/10\/29\/why-home-sales-bounce-back-after-presidential-elections\/?a=783612-02a11606fc81d6a6e402d49bc5bfe20b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the election<\/a> will impact the housing market.<\/li>\n<li>When we look at historical trends, combined with what\u2019s happening right now, we can find your answers. Based on historical data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freddiemac.com\/pmms\/archive\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage rates<\/a> decrease in the months before and home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/research-and-statistics\/housing-statistics\/existing-home-sales\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prices<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huduser.gov\/periodicals\/ushmc\/fall08\/hist_data.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sales<\/a> increase the year after the election.<\/li>\n<li>The facts show Presidential elections only have a small and temporary impact on the housing market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Highlights Even if you\u2019re not looking to move right away, you may have questions about how the election will impact the housing market. When we look at historical trends, combined with what\u2019s happening right now, we can find your answers. Based on historical data, mortgage rates decrease in the months before and home prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5170,"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-5169","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\/11\/20241101-QandA-How-Do-Presidential-Elections-Impact-the-Housing-Market-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-1ln","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","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=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}