{"id":15,"date":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/vankubo-com\/2026\/09\/11\/falling-home-prices-drive-record-10th-straight-quarter-of-affordability-gains\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:00:00","slug":"falling-home-prices-drive-record-10th-straight-quarter-of-affordability-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/11\/falling-home-prices-drive-record-10th-straight-quarter-of-affordability-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling home prices drive record 10th straight quarter of affordability gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>For the 10th quarter in a row, we\u2019ve seen housing affordability improve\u2014even as mortgage rates climb\u2014thanks to declining home prices. At this point, payments now represent 51.1% of the median income. Yet, here in Vancouver, we\u2019re still facing the country\u2019s steepest affordability challenges. As your GREATER VANCOUVER real estate expert, I keep a close eye on these shifts. Going forward, real progress will depend on both income growth and keeping price increases in check. Navigating these changes is all about timing and local insight\u2014something I bring to every client relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxQSXBuMUZ5dkZid19qUF9CUGVaUFBCTDQ5NkxTdVpLemc0MVlPelNQZElFeVFDQzdIY25FXzdtRkFkTlRnMjhuODlWX1VEVUQxRkhrWkRTUmFPa0NkZi1ZWEVrRUtzeVdvRWlLdFZ1VVRVMGE0VlBQcFpHUWJIU3hrZkE4WV9mQWlxQXFkOU1WMWp0ZTE5MUctejl3TGktUTBGbXBRTHRDcjBsTmJ2dzM2eTJENXNVVG9mWkFUc3dIM08xczA?oc=5&#038;hl=en-US&#038;gl=US&#038;ceid=US:en\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 10th quarter in a row, we\u2019ve seen housing affordability improve\u2014even as mortgage rates climb\u2014thanks to declining home prices. At this point, payments now represent 51.1% of the median income. Yet, here in Vancouver, we\u2019re still facing the country\u2019s steepest affordability challenges. As your GREATER VANCOUVER real estate expert, I keep a close eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}