2025 Real Estate Forecast: Booms, Busts & the Truth Behind the Headlines
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What’s really happening in real estate as we head through 2025? Kathy and Rich Fettke join Ken & Danille McElroy for a candid conversation on inflation, landlord challenges, policy shifts, and why long-term strategy still wins.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're diving into what 2025 really looks like for real estate investors. |
| 0:07.5 | From rent trends and rising expenses to the impact of policy shifts, Kathy and Rich Fetke |
| 0:12.6 | join us to unpack the truth behind the headlines and what it means for your real estate |
| 0:16.9 | strategy. |
| 0:26.5 | Where do you guys see just the market in general going in 2025? And is there any specific areas that you're focusing on? Well, there are a lot of challenges today. And 2025 is just |
| 0:33.0 | one of those years where people need to be really sharp with their pencil. As you know, as you know, |
| 0:37.8 | we have insurance rates going up, the cost to repair or the cost to build is going up, |
| 0:44.4 | cash flow is going down. In our, where we invest, we haven't really seen rents go down so much, |
| 0:50.5 | but that's always a possibility. If, if indeed indeed Trump sticks to his mass deportation that he's |
| 0:57.3 | been talking about, that's what I was mentioning earlier is less demand. And we know that we don't |
| 1:03.2 | really know how many people came into the country, but I've heard anywhere between 3 million and 10 |
| 1:07.8 | million. Well, depending on how many people leave, well, that's a huge amount of people that no longer |
| 1:12.7 | need a place to live. |
| 1:14.2 | So it's good for the, potentially, if rents come down, that's really good for renters. |
| 1:20.7 | It's tough on landlords. |
| 1:22.5 | So you've just got to be aware of a lot of things. |
| 1:24.5 | If we see a lot of government layoffs, you don't probably want to hold property where a lot of people are losing government jobs. Yeah, we are seeing that in |
| 1:33.0 | Washington, D.C. Yeah, you're seeing it in D.C. all right. And some other submarkets. But it's hard, too, |
| 1:38.8 | because our costs went up, too, right? So it's almost like we had this big boost in rent and everyone looks at us like, |
| 1:45.1 | yeah, rents went up so much. You guys are fine if they come down a little. But the problem is |
| 1:49.0 | our expenses went up a lot. I mean, my HOA's on my properties, I mean, you know, it went from |
| 1:54.2 | 250 to 350 to 350. Handyman went from like 35 an hour to 60 an hour. So I mean, these are huge |
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