Should I Buy a House Now or Wait Until 2026?

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

“Should I buy a house now or wait until prices fall further?” If you’re a first-time homebuyer or regular real estate investor, you’ve no doubt asked yourself this question. Home prices are falling in many major markets, and affordability could be improving for Americans. There’s a strong chance home prices could fall even further throughout this year, so should you wait for the bottom or take your chances and put something under contract now? Dave is sharing his exact investing plan today. With new home price predictions from top housing market data leaders like Zillow forecasting a drop in home prices, many buyers are remaining hesitant. But, as a real estate investor, you’re not buying your dream house—you’re looking for deals. Dave shares a simple strategy he uses to gauge when to buy, even when the housing market is going in different directions. If you follow this method, you’ll not only (most likely) be better off than the average investor, but you’ll be buying with far less stress and far greater strategy. Plus, what are the scenarios for the next year or two? Is there a chance that home prices could reverse and return to appreciation territory by this time next year? Dave is sharing his take so you can make better investment decisions. In This Episode We Cover Dave’s exact real estate investing plan for buying in 2025 and 2026 New home price predictions and why top experts have flipped their forecasts One simple, repeatable strategy to invest in rising and falling real estate markets The “upsides” you MUST look for when investing in real estate in 2025 Is 2025 the bottom? Why it may not even matter for savvy real estate investors And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1131 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	Should you buy real estate now or wait for home prices to fall? I'm going to break down all
0:05.9	the factors you need to know to make more accurate price predictions, but I'm also going to
0:11.0	explain why if you're asking this question in the first place, you might actually be thinking
0:15.7	about your investing all wrong.
0:24.6	Hey everyone, it's Dave Meyer.
0:29.5	I've been a real estate investor pursuing financial freedom for 15 years and I'm the head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets.
0:32.2	Thanks for being with us today.
0:34.0	In this show, we're going to tackle a big debate in the real estate investing industry,
0:39.9	market timing.
0:41.5	That is, should you try to time your acquisitions and sales perfectly to only buy when
0:47.6	there's great value and only to sell when prices are peaking?
0:51.8	The idea of timing the market is pretty appealing, right? Who doesn't
0:56.0	want to buy low and sell high? The problem is it's much harder than it seems. Professionals
1:01.8	get it wrong frequently. The best stock investors get it wrong all the time. The best real estate
1:07.4	investors don't know exactly what's going to happen to property values.
1:16.4	I'm not going to lie, I do try and time the market a bit myself, but please remember that I am a professional housing market analyst.
1:18.8	And although my track record for both predictions and actual investment timing has been good,
1:23.7	I am far from perfect.
1:24.8	And if you don't want to do what I do and digest a ton of data and try and make your own
1:28.9	forecasts, you should make sure to subscribe to this channel because I put out housing
1:33.1	market updates, which contain my best approximations of what's going to happen each and every
1:38.1	month.
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