Signs the Housing Market is Becoming “Healthier” in 2025

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It doesn’t seem like it, but the housing market could be getting a LOT healthier. After years of buyer-seller imbalance, with rising mortgage rates, low affordability, and frozen transaction volume, there are finally some signs of improvement. But are these changes enough to call the market “healthy”? Or are we still a long way from normal? We’re back with a bonus audio-only episode, touching on housing market expert Logan Mohtashami’s recent article, Why the housing market is actually much healthier in 2025. Dave breaks down the five key traits of a healthy housing market—and which ones the 2025 market actually meets. Although things have significantly improved from the supply-starved 2020-2022 period, affordability is still a huge issue. Can we somehow make the jump back to a healthy housing market? We might not be there yet, but things are shifting. So what does that mean for investors? With uncertainty comes opportunities, even if market conditions aren’t “ideal.” Do you NEED to wait for a healthy housing market to jump into the game? We’re breaking it down today! In This Episode We Cover Signs that the US housing market is becoming (surprisingly) healthier Five factors that make up a “healthy” housing market, and where we need to be to get back to pre-pandemic levels Can we ever solve our affordability crisis and get housing back to reasonable pricing? Signs we’re going in the right direction, EVEN with prices still high Why a “healthy” housing market doesn’t always mean a good time to invest (and vice versa) And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 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	Is this housing market healthy? Despite all the news and the noise and the confusion,
0:05.8	could we actually be in a healthy housing market right now? Today, we're going to find out.
0:17.0	Hey, what's going on, everyone? It's Dave, head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets.
0:21.8	And I was recently reading this article from a housing market analyst who I really respect and I follow closely.
0:30.3	He's also been on the show a couple times. His name is Logan Motishami. He works for Housing Wire.
0:35.5	And I follow and have been following Logan for a long time
0:39.3	because, like me, he's a data guy. And he doesn't say things just for clicks or hype. He just calls it
0:46.9	like he sees it and has a very long, proven track record of really good forecasting. So when I saw
0:54.0	a recent headline from him that was
0:56.5	titled, Why the Housing Market is actually much healthier in 2025, it really made me think,
1:03.7	are we actually in a healthy housing market right now? I know that might seem crazy because
1:09.7	everything feels crazy and confusing, but is there
1:12.9	actually some truth to this? I decided to dig in, and I thought about this question a lot.
1:18.5	I did some research, and in this episode, I'm going to share with you the conclusions I came
1:22.8	with. And just a reminder, this right here is an audio-only bonus podcast episode of the Bigger Pockets
1:28.7	podcast. We're dropping them on some Thursdays with my commentary on the housing market in
1:34.6	additional to our usual Monday, Wednesday, and Friday episodes. So make sure you're subscribed
1:39.3	to this podcast feed so you don't miss any of these bonuses. So in talking about a quote-unquote healthy
1:45.7	housing market, the first thing we need to cover and discuss is what is a healthy housing
1:49.8	market in the first place? What makes a market healthy? I actually sat down and thought about
1:55.6	this for a while because I never really put pen to paper and defined it before, but I came out with five basic
2:03.1	criteria.
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