{"id":24053,"date":"2024-02-27T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24053"},"modified":"2024-02-27T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:04:18","slug":"price-peaks-market-mystique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/price-peaks-market-mystique\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Peaks &#038; Mystique"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f4f4f4&amp;d=portland_magazine_febmar&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=42&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">Revamping this season\u2019s real estate.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story By Sofia Voltin<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>L<\/b>ast year<b> <\/b>experienced \u201cthe lowest number of home sales since 2008 nationwide,\u201d says <strong>Dr. Lawrence Yun<\/strong>, chief economist for the <strong>National Association of Realtors<\/strong><b>.<\/b><span class=\"s3\"> \u201cIt\u2019s been challenging market conditions with strange dynamics.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><strong>Dava Davin<\/strong>, CEO of <strong>Portside Real Estate Group<\/strong><\/span>, adds, \u201cTwenty-one percent fewer homes sold in Maine in 2023 than in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">The housing inventory shortage persisted, creating a difficult environment for real estate professionals. Yun says, \u201cSales were down, but believe it or not, Maine is doing better than much of the rest of the country. Realtors and mortgage originators don\u2019t have as much business now as before. But homeowners are happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PricePeaksMarketMystique.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PricePeaksMarketMystique.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PricePeaksMarketMystique-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PricePeaksMarketMystique-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season&#8217;s hot real estate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1292],"class_list":["post-24053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-february-march-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24143,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions\/24143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}