2026 Housing Market Predictions (and What 2025 Taught First Time Home Buyers) - 418
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Should you wait to buy in 2026? Or is now actually your best shot? This special year-end episode unpacks what happened in 2025 — and what’s coming in 2026 — using real data from 150+ housing analytics sources. If you’re a renter trying to make the smartest financial move, this is the episode you can’t afford to miss.
It’s not just another forecast — it’s your reality check. In this extended episode, David Sidoni breaks down the true state of the 2025 housing market and delivers an evidence-based prediction for 2026 that every first-time buyer needs to hear.
You’ll learn why “waiting for a crash” is not a plan, why prices might hold or rise even in a weird economy, and how to separate real market shifts from fear-driven headlines. David shares findings from over 150 housing reports, daily economic updates, and expert webinars — cutting through the noise to help you make an informed decision.
With interest rates, low inventory, and price trends all colliding, the data says that the best buying opportunity might be happening right now. You’ll also get the red flags to watch for, and the strategies smart buyers are using to take advantage of this window before it closes in spring 2026.
If you’re trying to time your move — or just make sense of conflicting opinions — this episode delivers the clarity you’ve been waiting for.
“None of the data says that waiting for 2026 will save you money. The best time for a renter to buy a home… was yesterday.”
Highlights
- Why home prices didn’t fall in 2025 — and what’s likely for 2026
- What over 150 housing reports and data sources reveal about the year ahead
- Debunking the myth of timing the market for a “better deal”
- The rent math: how buying now can still be smarter than waiting
- Red flags for 2026: bad advice, bad headlines, and bad timing
- Why winter 2025–2026 could be your best buying window
- Strategies to prepare now — even if you’re planning to buy later next year
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. This is the 2026 housing market forecast and prediction podcast. Lots to get |
| 0:06.8 | into. So let's get started. How to Buy a Home educates, protects, and connects first-time home |
| 0:12.4 | buyers to qualify bedded realtors in their area. Whether you're looking for DIY information or |
| 0:17.0 | step-by-step guidance, How to Buy a Home is the number one resource for first-time home buyers. |
| 0:23.1 | What is up, my How to Buy a Homies? I'm David Sidoni, and this is the annual end-of-the-year |
| 0:27.1 | forecast and prediction podcast, the 2026 edition. Now, if you're new to the show, this isn't a typical |
| 0:34.3 | how-to episode. This is going to be all stats, data, and all the economic analysis of the housing market as we prognosticate for 2026. If you're looking for all the first-time homebuyer how-to stuff, pause this podcast and jump to episode 400. That's where you're going to find the number one trusted first-time homebuyer step-by-step system in the country. And if you're looking for specific topics, go to how to buy a home.com, |
| 0:59.5 | look for the podcast page and look through the episode guide. Anything and everything you need is |
| 1:04.1 | all right there. This year's forecast and prediction episode is dropping a little bit early |
| 1:08.6 | because many economists are predicting that right now, |
| 1:11.8 | I'm talking like today, actually like yesterday, said that we are smack dab in the middle |
| 1:17.0 | of a buyer's window of opportunity and it's likely only going to be open through winter |
| 1:21.8 | and it's going to go away in the spring. So I wanted to get this information to all the |
| 1:26.4 | homies out there, ASAP. Now, I've been in |
| 1:29.2 | the research cave for weeks, and it's time that I get this out to you. This one's been intense. |
| 1:36.2 | This data, it comes from last count, I think it was 154, 155 housing analytics articles that I've |
| 1:43.7 | read through. Not to mention 24 housing and economic |
| 1:47.1 | data websites that I have been in deep research on. I've had nine or ten different webinars |
| 1:53.0 | that I've attended and four in real life conferences that I travel to on planes and trains. |
| 1:59.4 | And that is on top of my daily routine. |
| 2:03.1 | That's where I look at, I was a 14 or 15 different daily industry economic publications |
| 2:09.0 | as well as real estate stuff. |
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