{"id":71,"date":"2026-10-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:00:00","slug":"map-highlights-cities-ready-for-new-home-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/03\/map-highlights-cities-ready-for-new-home-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Highlights Cities Ready for New Home Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>As someone who\u2019s spent over two decades helping buyers, sellers, and investors navigate the West Valley market, I\u2019ve seen firsthand how shifts in new home construction can impact our choices. Right now, U.S. new home construction is on the decline\u2014building permits are 19.4% lower than pre-pandemic numbers, and we\u2019ve seen a drop for 44 consecutive months. Builders are working against the tide of high costs, mortgage rates, and ongoing affordability challenges, all while we\u2019re still facing a 4.7 million housing unit shortage nationwide. It\u2019s a reminder of how complex and interconnected the market can be, and why a service-driven, never-stop-learning approach matters when you\u2019re making real estate decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/map-shows-cities-facing-new-home-construction-slump-12447341\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who\u2019s spent over two decades helping buyers, sellers, and investors navigate the West Valley market, I\u2019ve seen firsthand how shifts in new home construction can impact our choices. Right now, U.S. new home construction is on the decline\u2014building permits are 19.4% lower than pre-pandemic numbers, and we\u2019ve seen a drop for 44 consecutive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosdelgadomyrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}