How to Start Investing in Real Estate (From Scratch!) in 2025

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This is how to start investing in real estate in 2025 from scratch, even if you don’t have any experience. You could be a brand-new investor or someone returning after years since your last purchase. One thing is clear: 2025 has changed the housing market. We are not in the same scenario as we were in 2020, 2022, or even 2024. Investors have more negotiating power now, and if you’ve decided to get in the game, now is the time to pick up deals. So, if we were starting from scratch in real estate investing, what would we do? Which strategies make the most sense for beginners? How do you find undervalued real estate deals and negotiate with sellers? Plus, should you even be buying now, or should you be waiting for greater price movement? If you want to invest in real estate in 2025, this is the exact place to start. We’ll walk through each step a beginner needs to take, from picking a strategy to finding an agent and lender, how to lock in a lower purchase price on your first investment property, and some deal-finding “hacks” even the most advanced investors rarely know about. In This Episode We Cover How to start investing in real estate in 2025, even if you have no experience Who should you talk to first: the agent, the lender, or somebody else entirely? The best strategies (with the LEAST risk) for beginner real estate investors How to find undervalued real estate deals in this new buyer’s market The single easiest investment strategy for any American to get started And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1151 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is how I would start building a real estate portfolio from scratch right now in 2025.
0:06.6	No matter what you may be hearing about the housing market right now,
0:10.1	it's almost always better to start buying real estate now,
0:14.2	then wait for some better opportunity that may never arrive.
0:19.1	So if you're totally new to this real estate game, or even if you've invested before
0:23.1	and are thinking about buying again, here's exactly how I'd recommend doing it today.
0:32.1	Hey everyone, I'm Dave Meyer.
0:34.6	I've been buying rental properties for 15 years, and on this podcast,
0:38.5	I help you achieve financial freedom through real estate.
0:41.9	Today, we're going to answer a very simple question, how do you start investing in real estate
0:46.5	right now? In some ways, the answer never changes. There are some steps every new investor
0:52.4	has to take no matter what's going on and some
0:55.8	strategies that just pretty much always work.
0:58.7	But right now is also a very different time in the real estate market than if you were
1:04.4	to have started investing three years or five years ago or even 10 years ago.
1:09.1	So today, I am joined by Henry Washington,
1:12.0	and we're going to provide some tips you absolutely need to keep in mind
1:15.9	to ensure you're getting great value and mitigating risk as you start a portfolio today.
1:21.6	Henry, thanks for joining us.
1:23.6	Hey, thanks for having me, Dave.
1:24.6	I'm excited.
1:25.2	I love talking about this topic.
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