{"id":41,"date":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/umarmukhtar-com\/2026\/10\/24\/fixer-uppers-commutes-many-making-trade-offs-to-buy-homes-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","slug":"fixer-uppers-commutes-many-making-trade-offs-to-buy-homes-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/24\/fixer-uppers-commutes-many-making-trade-offs-to-buy-homes-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixer-uppers, commutes: Many making trade-offs to buy homes, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Nearly 65% of Canadians are willing to compromise to afford a larger or more suitable home, including living farther from city centers or buying older homes needing renovations. About 47% would move up to an hour away, and 20% would accept family financial help. Many would cut discretionary spending or extend mortgage terms. Despite declining home sales in most markets, prices continue to rise in over half of them.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/12091067\/fixer-uppers-longer-commutes-trade-offs-buy-homes\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 65% of Canadians are willing to compromise to afford a larger or more suitable home, including living farther from city centers or buying older homes needing renovations. About 47% would move up to an hour away, and 20% would accept family financial help. Many would cut discretionary spending or extend mortgage terms. Despite declining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.umarmukhtar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}