{"id":16,"date":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/carolstrom-com\/2026\/09\/10\/renting-is-cheaper-but-the-gap-is-shrinking-carol-strom-real-estate-broker-founder-of-usafitpros-com-50-state-telehealth-and-labs-bolt-on-virtual-legitscript-business\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","slug":"renting-is-cheaper-but-the-gap-is-shrinking-carol-strom-real-estate-broker-founder-of-usafitpros-com-50-state-telehealth-and-labs-bolt-on-virtual-legitscript-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/renting-is-cheaper-but-the-gap-is-shrinking-carol-strom-real-estate-broker-founder-of-usafitpros-com-50-state-telehealth-and-labs-bolt-on-virtual-legitscript-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Renting Is Cheaper, but the Gap Is Shrinking | Carol Strom real estate broker. Founder of USAfitpros.com 50 state Telehealth and Labs bolt-on virtual LegitScript business"},"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\/carol-s\/renting-buying-markets-remotion-videos-4a08\"\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>Las Vegas was one of the metros where several forces moved toward buyers at once, making starter-home math more favorable than a year earlier.<br \/>\nIn Las Vegas, starter-home listing prices fell faster than rents over the past year, while avg. weekly earnings also grew, improving the local buy-versus-rent setup.<br \/>\nThat combination meant home prices retreated relative to rents at the same time local incomes improved, a setup that increasingly favored prepared Las Vegas buyers.<br \/>\nLas Vegas was not yet labeled a buyer&#039;s market. It remained balanced, but a market tracker said conditions were gradually loosening in buyers&#039; favor.<br \/>\nFor Las Vegas shoppers, improving conditions did not create the decision to buy, but they could strengthen confidence once savings and readiness were in place.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas was one of the metros where several forces moved toward buyers at once, making starter-home math more favorable than a year earlier. In Las Vegas, starter-home listing prices fell faster than rents over the past year, while avg. weekly earnings also grew, improving the local buy-versus-rent setup. That combination meant home prices retreated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolstrom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}