{"id":2334,"date":"2026-09-25T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:55:41","slug":"this-is-the-salary-needed-to-afford-a-typical-us-home-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2026\/09\/this-is-the-salary-needed-to-afford-a-typical-us-home-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the salary needed to afford a typical US home in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Americans still need to earn nearly $110,000 a year to comfortably afford the typical home for sale in the United States, even as housing affordability has shown modest signs of improvement over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">A new Redfin report found that a household would need an annual income of $109,796 to purchase the median-priced U.S. home in June 2026 while spending no more than 30% of said income on housing costs. That&#8217;s just 0.5% lower than the record high of $110,382 a year ago, meaning the income needed to buy a home has changed very little over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans still need to earn nearly $110,000 a year to comfortably afford the typical home for sale in the United States, even as housing affordability has shown modest signs of improvement over the past year. A new Redfin report found that a household would need an annual income of $109,796 to purchase the median-priced U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","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\/2334","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=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}