{"id":1686,"date":"2019-07-09T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2019\/07\/lower-mortgage-rates-boost-existing-home-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:13:04","slug":"lower-mortgage-rates-boost-existing-home-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2019\/07\/lower-mortgage-rates-boost-existing-home-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Mortgage Rates Boost Existing Home Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mortgages.png\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"350\" data-original-width=\"590\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mortgages.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">U.S. home sales rose in May, boosted by lower interest rates for mortgages, giving a positive signal for the health of the U.S. economy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The National Association of Realtors said on Friday existing home sales increased 2.5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.34 million units last month. April&#8217;s sales pace was revised slightly higher to 5.21 million<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/finance\/economy\/existing-home-sales-mortgage\/2019\/06\/21\/id\/921460\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Mortgage Frenzy Returns as Rates Near Historic Lows! &#8211;&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Mortgage rates are nearing historic lows again in the United States, making it an ideal time to buy a home \u2014 or refinance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/finance\/streettalk\/buying-refinancing-mortgage-rate\/2019\/06\/19\/id\/921017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more info&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. home sales rose in May, boosted by lower interest rates for mortgages, giving a positive signal for the health of the U.S. economy. The National Association of Realtors said on Friday existing home sales increased 2.5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.34 million units last month. April&#8217;s sales pace was revised slightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}