{"id":26,"date":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/mahoganyrhodes-com\/2026\/09\/24\/what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","slug":"what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Smaller U.S. Homes Could Mean for Buyers"},"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\/mahogany-rhodes-1\/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>Noticing a shift in the American home landscape: over the last decade, the average new single-family home in the U.S. has slimmed down\u2014from 2,700 to 2,400 square feet\u2014while the price per square foot has surged by about 72%. By 2025, one out of every four new homes sold measured under 1,800 sq-ft; a decade ago, it was closer to one in six. Meanwhile, homes 3,000 sq-ft or larger now make up just one in five new builds, down from about one in three. This trend isn\u2019t just about design preferences\u2014builders are responding to significant increases in land, labor, and material costs, all while mortgage rates hover around 6% to 7%. For first-time and budget-conscious buyers, these smaller footprints can translate into more accessible down payments and monthly expenses, though the elevated price per square foot reminds us affordability remains a challenge. As someone who guides clients with strategic market insight and a focus on asset positioning, I see how these shifts reshape both opportunity and approach for buyers navigating today\u2019s market realities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noticing a shift in the American home landscape: over the last decade, the average new single-family home in the U.S. has slimmed down\u2014from 2,700 to 2,400 square feet\u2014while the price per square foot has surged by about 72%. By 2025, one out of every four new homes sold measured under 1,800 sq-ft; a decade ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahoganyrhodes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}