{"id":1853,"date":"2026-04-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:00:00","slug":"why-first-time-buyers-drive-2026s-housing-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/why-first-time-buyers-drive-2026s-housing-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Why First-Time Buyers Drive 2026\u2019s Housing Recovery"},"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\/saeed-farahani-prec\/first-timers-canada-home\"\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>BoC hinting rates \u201cas good as it gets\u201d pulled sidelined buyers back.<\/p>\n<p>First-time buyers matter most\u2014they buy homes without adding new supply.<\/p>\n<p>CREA predicts 494K sales in 2026, climbing again into 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden insight: Tariff threats and economic fear stalled 2025, not just rates. Sentiment is the real driver.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoC hinting rates \u201cas good as it gets\u201d pulled sidelined buyers back. First-time buyers matter most\u2014they buy homes without adding new supply. CREA predicts 494K sales in 2026, climbing again into 2027. Hidden insight: Tariff threats and economic fear stalled 2025, not just rates. Sentiment is the real driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}