If you're confused about whether 2026 is actually a good year to buy more rentals, you're not alone.

Rates are high, prices feel stuck, rents are slowing, and every headline says something different.

So I brought on the one person I trust most with real estate data, Dave Meyer, from Bigger Pockets.

And we're going to cut through the noise and help you make the most of 2026.

Welcome to the podcast, Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson.

I'm your host, Chad Carson.

You can also call me Coach Carson.

And on this show, I teach you how to use real estate investing to achieve financial freedom so you can spend your time doing more of what matters. The first thing I want to start talking about is I want to go big picture and long term and nerd out on some things. But really the thing on my mind, I think a lot of people's mind is trying to navigate where we actually are in the overall economy and the real estate market. And last year we talked about this. We talked about interest rates and prices. So can you give us just sort of a high level update on what the

real estate market in the U.S. has done in 2025? It's been a really interesting year. I think

we started 2025. A lot of people were very worried about a crash coming and, you know, rates were

a lot higher. They

had seven and a quarter. We were seeing inventory jump pretty quickly in the first quarter,

is up 20, 30 percent year over year. But if you fast forward to today, what you see, just to put

it short and sweet, is that we're in a, what I would call a mild correction in the housing market.

But signs and all the data points to it being just that, just a correction, not a crash.

And I think that's probably the best case scenario for the housing market right now.

The last couple of years, we've gotten to this unaffordable point,

the housing market. I don't think anyone in the right mind would say what's happened over the

last couple years in the housing market is healthy and good. And so to get back to a more normal

housing market, something has to change. And personally for me, seeing a mild correction where

things get more affordable

slowly, but obviously we don't want the bottom to fall out from under us as well. And so I think

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