{"id":117,"date":"2026-10-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:00:00","slug":"higher-rates-squeeze-riverside-county-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/14\/higher-rates-squeeze-riverside-county-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Rates Squeeze Riverside County Buyers"},"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\/sean-reid\/higher-rates-affordability-remotion-videos-25b0\" 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>Riverside County housing affordability slipped in Q2 as higher mortgage rates and rebounding home prices made ownership harder for prospective buyers locally.<br \/>\nJust 28% of Riverside County households could afford the median-priced single-family home in Q2, compared with 29% in Q1 and 25% yearly.<br \/>\nThe county&#039;s median-priced single-family home was $640K in Q2, and buyers needed a minimum annual income of $159.6K to qualify for purchase.<br \/>\nEven with yearly improvement, affordability remained near historic lows as elevated housing costs and borrowing expenses continued limiting homeownership opportunities in Riverside County.<br \/>\nThe quarter showed a mixed picture: affordability eased from a year earlier, but higher financing costs and rebounding prices still squeezed Riverside County buyers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverside County housing affordability slipped in Q2 as higher mortgage rates and rebounding home prices made ownership harder for prospective buyers locally. Just 28% of Riverside County households could afford the median-priced single-family home in Q2, compared with 29% in Q1 and 25% yearly. The county&#039;s median-priced single-family home was $640K in Q2, and buyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inlandempirehomevalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}