{"id":142,"date":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:00:00","slug":"new-homes-offer-better-value-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/25\/new-homes-offer-better-value-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"New Homes Offer Better Value Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/michael-hoke-1\/new-homes-cheaper-remotion-videos-3867\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Nationwide, newly built homes now sell for a median $205 per sq-ft, below $212 for existing homes, making new construction the typical value play.<br \/>\nThat pricing shift showed up in one-third of major US markets, reversing years when new homes usually carried a higher price per sq-ft.<br \/>\nBuilders have been more willing to cut prices and offer incentives, especially where construction expanded and available inventory created stronger competition recently.<br \/>\nFor buyers, that means new homes may be worth a closer look, particularly in well-supplied areas where negotiating room has improved meaningfully.<br \/>\nThe broader takeaway is simple: adding more homes remains the clearest affordability path, though slower permitting could threaten some of that progress.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, newly built homes now sell for a median $205 per sq-ft, below $212 for existing homes, making new construction the typical value play. That pricing shift showed up in one-third of major US markets, reversing years when new homes usually carried a higher price per sq-ft. Builders have been more willing to cut prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hokeonhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}