The “Great Stall” Has Begun

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The housing market is not going to crash tomorrow. It’s also not going to boom soon. We’re not in 2008, and we’re also not in 2020. We’re in a strange gray area, a zone that most Americans have never experienced before. We’re entering the “Great Stall.” And this could last for years. All data points to a new kind of housing market forming. But why, and why now? Is there any chance of a housing crash or home price explosion like before? Yes, but Dave is going to break down the odds of each scenario, plus what to do in the most likely scenario, while home prices stagnate and mortgage rates stay relatively high. If you want to take advantage of the “Great Stall,” so that when home prices do go back up you’ll profit, there are four things you need to do. We’ll break down each step so you can prepare and pounce on the investment property that makes your future self wealthy. The “Great Stall” is here, and when it’s over, millions of Americans will wish they had bought. In This Episode We Cover Crash, boom, or plateau? The most likely scenario for home prices over the next few years How to prepare for the “Great Stall” and take advantage of frozen home prices The “upsides” you must look for that could explode your wealth when appreciation returns Why you need to start going “risk-off” in your investing to protect your wealth What will finally cause home prices to rebound and Americans to get back into the market And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1197 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	What's going to happen in the housing market? I wish I could tell you for certain, but I don't
0:05.4	have a crystal ball. But I have been analyzing the real estate market professionally for a decade,
0:10.9	and I've looked at all the recent data, home prices, mortgage rates, inflation, unemployment,
0:16.5	and more. And what I can tell you are the potential paths the housing market could follow. Real
0:22.0	estate could crash. It could melt up. We could continue the current great stall dynamic.
0:27.5	There could be a black swan event. And you can make money investing in any of these potential
0:32.9	future housing markets, but you need to take the right steps to prepare yourself today.
0:38.4	So in this episode, I'll project which of these real estate markets I think are the most
0:42.6	and least likely to happen. And then I'll give you my best advice for how to adjust your
0:47.8	portfolio before they take place.
0:56.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Bigger Pockets podcast.
0:58.3	I'm Dave Meyer, real estate investor, housing analyst.
1:02.1	And today on the show, we're getting into the question that is on everyone's mind.
1:07.3	What is going to happen with the housing market?
1:10.4	As investors, the answer to this question is pretty critical, right?
1:14.9	Not because you can't invest in any of these scenarios, but because the strategies that you
1:19.9	use should be based at least partially on what is happening in the larger housing market.
1:27.7	This episode is about helping you understand the direction of the market so you can plan accordingly.
1:33.2	And I think right up front, we need to get the big, important elephant in the room out of the way.
1:38.6	As we start this episode, I do not know what is going to happen. I have spent a decade studying the housing market.
1:47.8	I look at data every single day, and I am still not sure what comes next.
1:52.8	We are at a fork in a road, and it's not clear which path we're going to take.
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