{"id":2321,"date":"2025-07-15T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/the-5-year-rule-for-home-prices\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:30:00","slug":"the-5-year-rule-for-home-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/the-5-year-rule-for-home-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5-Year Rule for Home Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250715-KCM-Share-5-year-rule-for-home-prices-original.png?w=1220&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"The 5-Year Rule for Home Prices Simplifying The Market\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250715-Info-5-year-rule-for-home-prices-MEM-original.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250715-Info-5-year-rule-for-home-prices-MEM-original.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"a screenshot of a graph\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Some Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If recent home price headlines have you feeling worried, here\u2019s some perspective.??<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2025\/06\/10\/the-five-year-rule-for-home-price-perspective\/?a=783612-02a11606fc81d6a6e402d49bc5bfe20b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Home values<\/a> almost always go up in the long run. ?And the long-term gains offset any short-term dips. Basically, if you plan to live there for 5 or more years, you should be able to buffer yourself against any short-term declines.<\/li>\n<li>Connect with an agent to have a conversation about what\u2019s happening with prices in your market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/15\/the-5-year-rule-for-home-prices\/\">The 5-Year Rule for Home Prices<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\">Sandpoint Realty<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Highlights If recent home price headlines have you feeling worried, here\u2019s some perspective.?? Home values almost always go up in the long run. ?And the long-term gains offset any short-term dips. Basically, if you plan to live there for 5 or more years, you should be able to buffer yourself against any short-term declines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sandpoint-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}