Investor Who Timed Market (3 Times!) Says Now May Be Bottom

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The housing market is already predicted to see price cuts by the end of the year, but is now the time to buy, or should you wait for further price movement? We brought on an investor who has successfully timed the housing market (three times) to give his thoughts on whether we’re at the bottom or we have a long way to go. If you’ve been holding out for lower home prices and less competition, should you take the risk and wait, knowing a rebound could be on the way? Through a combination of genius and a bit of luck, Brian Burke has sold, bought, and sold at the right times repeatedly. He exited the majority of his real estate portfolio in the early 2020s as prices hit all-time highs and competition was fierce. For the last three and a half years, he hadn’t bought anything, up until very recently. Is this a signal that now is the time to buy? Today, we’re asking Brian whether 2025 is the right time to buy (and for which assets), how to get in “position” to make a profit as home prices decline, the sellers most likely to give you concessions and further price cuts, and signs YOU should sell your headache rental and trade it for something better. The second half of 2025 could be when the scales tip—are you ready to make a move? Links from the Show Join the Future of Real Estate Investing with Fundrise Join BiggerPockets for FREE Grab Brian’s Book, “The Hands-Off Investor" Find an Investor-Friendly Agent in Your Area Find Investor-Friendly Lenders Property Manager Finder Dave's BiggerPockets Profile BiggerPockets Real Estate 1100 - The Ultimate Underrated Rental Property of 2025 (for Small Investors) w/Brian Burke Brian's BiggerPockets Profile Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/on-the-market-352 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠advertise@biggerpockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Hope you're enjoying your Labor Day. Today on the market, we are republishing
0:05.2	a conversation I had with investor Brian Burke, who's been a guest on this show many times,
0:11.9	and this conversation actually originally aired on the Bigger Pockets Real Estate podcast back in June.
0:17.5	Brian, if you've heard him before, is one of the smartest investors I know. So as the
0:22.1	real estate investing market starts to turn, I wanted to pick his brain about the key trends he's
0:27.1	seeing and especially how he thinks about timing as power swings from sellers to buyers. It is an
0:33.7	awesome episode. I personally learned a lot from it, and everything Brian said seems even more
0:38.9	true now, two months later. We will be back with a new On the Market episode on Thursday,
0:44.2	and then starting next week, we'll switch from publishing on Mondays and Thursdays like we do
0:49.6	now to Tuesdays and Thursdays. We'll still have the same kinds of episodes. We're just switching our first episode of the week from Monday to Tuesday.
0:57.2	So enjoy your long weekend.
0:58.7	Here's me talking to Brian Burke.
1:05.8	What's up, everyone?
1:07.0	I'm Dave Meyer, head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets.
1:12.3	This podcast is devoted to helping you reach financial freedom through real estate. Today, we are talking about a shift
1:17.5	in the housing market that's happening right now. Home prices are expected to fall on a national
1:23.2	basis about 1% year over year. But this isn't a crash, and it's not even necessarily a large
1:29.5	correction. But it is still significant because home prices have been rising pretty consistently
1:35.2	since 2012. If you're one of those people who's been sitting around and waiting for prices
1:40.4	to drop before buying a rental property, now's the time because it's happening.
1:45.5	This is a new dynamic in the market. And because of that, I want to break down how investors
1:51.9	should invest when there are fewer bidding wars, when sellers are dropping prices and homes
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