{"id":31,"date":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/danfontainerealty-com\/2026\/09\/24\/what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:00:00","slug":"what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/what-smaller-u-s-homes-could-mean-for-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Smaller U.S. Homes Could Mean for Buyers"},"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\/danny-fontaine\/shrinkflation-housing-prices-remotion-videos-6f40\"\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>Over the past decade, the average new single-family home in the U.S. has gotten smaller\u2014down from 2,700 to 2,400 square feet\u2014while the price per square foot has shot up by about 72%. In 2025, one in four new builds clocked in under 1,800 square feet, compared to just one in six ten years ago. At the same time, those grand 3,000+ square foot homes became less common, dropping from roughly one in three to one in five. Builders are turning to more compact designs to balance rising costs for land, labor, and materials\u2014especially with mortgage rates hovering between 6% and 7%. For folks keeping a close eye on their budget, especially first-time and VA buyers, these smaller homes can mean a more manageable down payment and monthly cost. But that higher price per square foot means affordability is still a real challenge. As someone who\u2019s helped plenty of military families in Duval County hunt for that just-right home, I know it\u2019s not just about square footage\u2014it\u2019s about making every dollar and every room count.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, the average new single-family home in the U.S. has gotten smaller\u2014down from 2,700 to 2,400 square feet\u2014while the price per square foot has shot up by about 72%. In 2025, one in four new builds clocked in under 1,800 square feet, compared to just one in six ten years ago. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danfontainerealty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}