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A notable shift has unfolded across the United States housing market as of the second week of September 2026: the balance of leverage is moving steadily toward buyers and well-capitalized investors. For nearly four years, prospective home purchasers and...

Written by Discount Property Investor Team

The U.S. housing market has reached an unmistakable turning point: sellers are losing absolute pricing power, while inventory is accumulating at its fastest pace in years. Yet buyers and investors are not finding effortless windfalls.

Instead, a combinati...

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The late-summer 2026 housing dynamic has broken away from the inventory freeze and rapid bidding wars that defined previous pandemic-era cycles. Finding off-market acquisitions and discounted real estate contracts no longer requires fighting through twenty...

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The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate edged up to 6.66% for the week ending August 27, 2026, as documented in Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey data. That marks an uptick of one basis point from the prior week's 6.65%, putting borrowing benchm...

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You pull a targeted list of 500 off-market seller leads. You dial 200 of them. You get 12 conversations, run the numbers, and submit 3 competitive cash offers.

Then comes total silence. Zero signed contracts.

If that operational wall feels familiar, you ...

Written by Discount Property Investor Team

You spent $3,000 on direct mail, digital pay-per-click, and cold outbound marketing over the past 30 days. Your CRM logged 85 inbound inquiries. You dialed 60 of them, had 18 preliminary conversations, ran numbers on 10 properties, and sent out 6 written c...

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Existing-home sales fell 1.7% in July 2026 to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.06 million units, while the national median existing-home sales price climbed 2.0% year-over-year to a record high of $434,100, according to the National Association of RE...

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Homes Are Sitting on the Market Longer. Here's Why — and What Sellers Can Do About It

Three weeks ago, a homeowner in a mid-size Sun Belt suburb put up a "For Sale" sign, ran the standard photos, and waited for the offers to roll in the way they did for a...

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If you've been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the housing market to feel less brutal, this is worth your attention: for the first time in several years, the numbers are genuinely tilting in buyers' favor. Not because homes have gotten cheap — they ha...

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If you've been waiting for the U.S. housing market to make up its mind, August didn't give you a clean answer — but it did give you a lot of new information. In the span of about ten days, the National Association of REALTORS® reported that existing-home s...