{"id":18,"date":"2026-09-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/marcoislandbeachrealtor-com\/2026\/09\/17\/us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:00:00","slug":"us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/17\/us-confidence-hits-seven-mo-low\/","title":{"rendered":"US Confidence Hits Seven-Mo Low"},"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\/nancy-ehlen\/consumer-confidence-just-hit-a-seven-month-low-heres-whats-driving-it-3c3d\"\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>A shift in consumer confidence is underway: by mid-Q3, Americans felt more optimistic about current conditions, yet their outlook on income, business, and jobs for the coming months became more cautious. The present-conditions index climbed about 7 points to 121, but the expectations measure slid nearly 6 points to 68\u2014a level historically associated with recession risk. Early in the quarter, employers trimmed 23,000 jobs, and unemployment ticked up to around 4%. Notably, this was driven more by people leaving the workforce than by a surge in hiring. Even as confidence softened, the desire to purchase homes remained resilient, with homebuying expectations only easing slightly and continuing to rise. Roughly 61% of consumers still anticipate higher interest rates ahead. With federal policymakers keeping rates steady and markets signaling limited short-term relief, it appears borrowing costs will remain elevated for buyers through year-end. Having guided Marco Island buyers and sellers for over 30 years, I recognize how these shifts can shape your decisions in residential real estate\u2014especially when navigating today\u2019s market landscape.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shift in consumer confidence is underway: by mid-Q3, Americans felt more optimistic about current conditions, yet their outlook on income, business, and jobs for the coming months became more cautious. The present-conditions index climbed about 7 points to 121, but the expectations measure slid nearly 6 points to 68\u2014a level historically associated with recession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcoislandbeachrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}