{"id":14,"date":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/heitzteam-com\/2026\/09\/10\/715000-land-contracts-recorded-nationwide\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","slug":"715000-land-contracts-recorded-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/715000-land-contracts-recorded-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"715,000 Land Contracts Recorded Nationwide"},"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\/tami-heitzwebel\/expanding-mortgage-access-remotion-videos-d1cd\"\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>When buyers cannot qualify for a mortgage, some turn to land contracts, a seller-financing option that often leaves them with fewer legal protections.<br \/>\nResearchers found land contracts were commonly used when traditional mortgages were harder to obtain for low-cost homes, manufactured homes, rural properties, and older fixer-uppers.<br \/>\nThe central takeaway was straightforward: better mortgage access was linked to less reliance on land contracts, pointing to safer financing pathways for buyers.<br \/>\nPotential solutions included expanding small-mortgage availability, modernizing manufactured-home titling, and improving renovation lending so more homes and borrowers can qualify for mortgages.<br \/>\nBecause land contracts are likely to remain part of the market, stronger recording rules, clearer standards, and better buyer protections were recommended.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When buyers cannot qualify for a mortgage, some turn to land contracts, a seller-financing option that often leaves them with fewer legal protections. Researchers found land contracts were commonly used when traditional mortgages were harder to obtain for low-cost homes, manufactured homes, rural properties, and older fixer-uppers. The central takeaway was straightforward: better mortgage access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heitzteam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}