{"id":30,"date":"2006-06-18T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realst8.crankpin.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-07-10T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T13:49:36","slug":"south-bends-housing-is-among-the-most-affordable-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/real-estate\/south-bends-housing-is-among-the-most-affordable-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bend&#8217;s Housing is Among the Most Affordable in the Nation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Bend has a remarkable &#8220;affordability index,&#8221; or relation between median income and median home price. In fact, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/1272005_Home_Sales_Continue_To_Climb_While_Affordability_Declines.asp\">mortgage industry newsletter<\/a> reported South Bend&#8217;s median income would qualify a resident for a loan of 297% of the median home price. This places it among the ten most affordable markets in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Remember though, statistics should always be taken with a grain of salt and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/2006\/06\/are-home-prices-falling-in-south-bend.html\">as we previously explained<\/a>, the recent figures on median home prices in South Bend have been affected by a large number of low price sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Bend has a remarkable &#8220;affordability index,&#8221; or relation between median income and median home price. In fact, a mortgage industry newsletter reported South Bend&#8217;s median income would qualify a resident for a loan of 297% of the median home price. This places it among the ten most affordable markets in the United States. Remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-conditions","category-real-estate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realst8.com\/staging\/9756\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}