Investor Sentiment Quickly Turns as Home Sales Bottom, Inventory Rebounds

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We’ve got great news for investors, agents, lenders, and first-time homebuyers: housing inventory is about to rise…big time. After years of limited inventory, with homebuyers fighting tooth and nail to get into just about any home, the tide is finally turning. Rick Sharga from CJ Patrick Company brings new data and insight to the show, sharing why we could return to pre-pandemic housing inventory levels by the end of 2025. Why is that good news for so many of us? Because home prices could slow, if not drop, in some markets as buyers get a better selection of houses to choose from. Those “locked-in” owners with rock-bottom interest rates have waited long enough to sell, and 2025 could be the time they put their homes on the market. But if a new wave of inventory hits the housing market, are we at risk of a home price correction or a crash? Rick shares what the data shows and why investors are so pessimistic about the current housing market, even with the inventory forecasts looking so good. Will foreclosures rise again as consumer debt hits an all-time high? Could more off-market deals be in the pipeline in 2025? We’re asking Rick and getting answers to all those questions in today’s show. In This Episode We Cover A historic housing inventory rebound and why this is great news for buyers, agents, and lenders Whether home prices will grow, stabilize, or crash with so much new inventory coming online The new Investor Sentiment Survey and why optimism fell off a cliff in Q4 2024 The single-biggest worry for rental property investors in 2025 and why it may get worse How to still find motivated sellers even with foreclosures at low levels And So Much More! Links from the Show Join the Future of Real Estate Investing with Fundrise Join BiggerPockets for FREE Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area Dave's BiggerPockets Profile BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast 1065 - It’s About to Get Good! (2025 Housing Market Predictions) CJ Patrick Company Investor Sentiment Survey Grab Dave’s New Book, “Start with Strategy” Jump to topic: (00:00) Intro (01:15) Housing Inventory to Rebound in 2025 (06:27) Home Price Growth to Slow (08:45) Could Home Prices Crash? (15:43) Investor Sentiment Falls (21:53) Top Rising Cost for Rentals (27:27) Foreclosure Deals? Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/on-the-market-288 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	The economic picture is right now pretty annoyingly, still not clear.
0:04.6	We don't even know if interest rates are going to keep climbing or if they'll finally start
0:09.2	to stabilize.
0:10.4	We don't know if inflation is going to fade or flare up once again.
0:14.2	And with so many moving parts, we don't know which real estate markets will emerge as
0:18.1	true winners or losers in the next couple of years. So today,
0:22.0	we're going to tackle these questions head on because every shift in the economy directly impacts
0:27.9	you as an investor. And we want you to know what's going on as quickly as it happens.
0:39.4	Hey, everyone. it's Dave.
0:40.6	Welcome to On the Market.
0:45.1	Today I'm sitting down with special guests who's a repeat favorite here on the show.
0:46.6	It's Rick Sharga.
0:52.8	Rick is the founder of a C.J. Patrick Company and has decades of experience analyzing the real estate market.
0:55.0	And today we're going to be diving into the big economic questions looming over us in 2025. Of course, we want to know what these things
1:02.0	mean for us as investors. And we're going to talk about some of the latest research Rick has
1:07.2	been doing at C.J. Patrick about how investors, generally, people like you and me,
1:12.2	are feeling about the housing market. Let's get started. Rick Sharga, welcome back to On the Market.
1:17.8	Thanks for being here again.
1:19.1	Always great to have these conversations, Dave. Thanks for having me.
1:22.0	Yeah, I'm excited because I think everyone who's listened to this show knows my opinions about
1:26.9	the housing market and
1:27.7	probably tired of hearing me blab on about it.
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