{"id":5984,"date":"2024-07-31T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/the-housing-crunch-is-still-squeezing-buyers-but-not-as-badly-in-these-swing-state-counties\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:06:36","slug":"the-housing-crunch-is-still-squeezing-buyers-but-not-as-badly-in-these-swing-state-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/the-housing-crunch-is-still-squeezing-buyers-but-not-as-badly-in-these-swing-state-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"The housing crunch is still squeezing buyers \u2014 but not as badly in these swing-state counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=''>Homes are getting less affordable for buyers all over the country \u2014 including in places where the 2024 presidential race could be decided.<\/p>\n<p class=''>But market conditions in six key swing counties aren\u2019t quite as bad as they are in the U.S. as a whole, NBC News\u2019 Home Buyer Index shows.<\/p>\n<div id='taboolaReadMoreBelow'><\/div>\n<p class=''>In Erie County, Pennsylvania, for example, a blue-collar area in arguably this year\u2019s most crucial swing state, steep competition for homes pushed its overall index score to 70 on a 100-point scale last month. That\u2019s more than 20 points higher than four years ago, but still 13 points shy of the national average, which climbed 30 points since 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homes are getting less affordable for buyers all over the country \u2014 including in places&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}