{"id":1220689,"date":"2023-04-24T19:52:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1220689"},"modified":"2023-04-26T04:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:13:28","slug":"east-texas-housing-market-interest-rates-more-than-7-higher-than-last-year-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1220689","title":{"rendered":"East Texas housing market prices more than 7% higher than last year, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/Tylercityof.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1220690\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Real estate agents are gearing up for the summer buying and selling season with higher rates and the tightening of credit this year. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our median home sale from March of 2023 was $327,500, which is up over 7% in comparison to last year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Kelly Raulston, board chairman of the Greater Tyler Association of Realtors. According to our news partner KETK, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve listed inflation and interest rates as the number one issue for real estate in the U.S. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With the increase of high interest rate, compared to last year is maybe shorter list of borrowers that are applying now because the tendency is I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m scared,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hila Gama, Texas real estate agent. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking into a home for the first time there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a possibility you can be approved for a zero-dollar down payment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gama. She suggests connecting with your bank to find out more about your personal credit. Raulston added, in this market it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to work with local banks and relators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Real estate agents are gearing up for the summer buying and selling season with higher rates and the tightening of credit this year. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our median home sale from March of 2023 was $327,500, which is up over 7% in comparison to last year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Kelly Raulston, board chairman of the Greater Tyler Association &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1220689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas housing market prices more than 7% higher than last year, experts say<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1220694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/Tylercityof.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas housing market interest rates more than 7% higher than last year, experts say","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 12:32:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/04\/Tylercityof.png","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas housing market interest rates more than 7% higher than last year, experts say","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221052,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220689\/revisions\/1221052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}