The “Golden Age” of Real Estate is Over.

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The golden age of real estate investing is over, and there’s a good chance it isn’t coming back (for a while, at least). We have to admit it—real estate deals aren’t nearly as good as they were in the 2010s. But here’s the thing…we’re still buying real estate. Even with low affordability, high interest rates, and still high home prices, real estate still makes much more sense as an investment than your other options. We can prove it, and we’re doing it in today’s episode. You know your crypto-buying uncle who’s always predicting a housing crash? Send him this episode. Dave presents the proof, backed by decades of data, showing that real estate remains one of the best risk-adjusted returns of any investment you can buy today. And with sellers significantly outnumbering buyers and home prices starting to correct, this could be one of the best times to buy before demand boomerangs back and supply dwindles. Dave is buying right now, after reviewing all the data. So, if the numbers make sense for him, what’s holding you back? In This Episode We Cover Who cares about 2010s home prices? Why you should be buying NOW Historical home price growth and why higher home price appreciation is likely Real estate vs. crypto vs. stocks vs. gold vs. businesses in 2025 Dave’s investing game plan for 2025 and the requirements a rental property must hit How to buy better real estate deals as sellers get even more desperate And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1146 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	Real estate is harder than it used to be.
0:03.0	But you know what?
0:04.0	I honestly do not care.
0:06.0	Even though deals are harder to find, cash flow prospects are lower, and interest rates
0:11.0	are higher, I still don't care.
0:13.0	Because investing, whether in real estate or some other asset class, is not about comparing
0:19.0	today's potential to some bygone era.
0:22.2	It's about making the best decisions with your money, given the opportunities available
0:26.4	to you today. So in this episode, I'm going to make my case to you for why waiting for some
0:32.3	magical era of amazing returns and low risk, which will likely never come, is not the right move and how
0:39.1	you should instead be thinking about investing.
0:46.9	Hey, everyone, it's Dave Meyer. I'm the head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets, and I've
0:51.7	been an active real estate investor for more than 15 years.
0:55.7	And right now, given current market conditions, we're seeing a lot of people sit on the
1:00.1	sidelines. And I'll be honest, I'm not going to say that I don't get it because I recognize
1:05.6	that real estate is harder right now. Deals are harder. But you know what? It really doesn't bother me at the end of the day.
1:14.0	I mean, of course, I wish the conditions were amazing again, but I'm going to show you today why I think
1:19.8	that's a dangerous mental trap you can find yourself in if you start going down that road.
1:25.7	And instead, I think I can help you all frame the challenges and opportunities in real estate
1:32.0	as a productive thing.
1:34.2	I'm going to show you that there is an upside to everything that's going on in the market
1:39.4	right now, and we're going to do that in today's episode.
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