{"id":45,"date":"2026-09-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/ericbergersrealestate-com\/2026\/09\/25\/what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers-fyp\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:00:00","slug":"what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers-fyp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/25\/what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers-fyp\/","title":{"rendered":"What Smaller U.S. Homes Could Mean for Buyers | fyp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/eric-bergers\/shrinkflation-housing-prices-remotion-videos-6f40\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Over the prior decade, avg. new US single-family homes sold shrank from 2.7K sq-ft to 2.4K sq-ft, while price per sq-ft climbed ~72%.<br \/>\nIn 2025, 1 in 4 new single-family homes sold measured under 1.8K sq-ft, up from ~1 in 6 a decade earlier nationwide.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the share of new US homes at 3K sq-ft or larger slipped from ~1 in 3 to 1 in 5 over the decade.<br \/>\nBuilders increasingly used smaller designs to offset rising land, labor, and material costs, helping keep prices within reach amid mortgage rates near ~6% to ~7%.<br \/>\nFor budget-focused and first-time buyers, smaller homes could ease down payments and monthly costs, though the higher price per sq-ft showed housing stayed expensive.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the prior decade, avg. new US single-family homes sold shrank from 2.7K sq-ft to 2.4K sq-ft, while price per sq-ft climbed ~72%. In 2025, 1 in 4 new single-family homes sold measured under 1.8K sq-ft, up from ~1 in 6 a decade earlier nationwide. Meanwhile, the share of new US homes at 3K sq-ft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericbergersrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}