This Could Be the Best Real Estate "Buy" of 2026

On The Market

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4.8 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This could be the best real estate “buy” of 2026. While mortgage rates are climbing back up and everyone is waiting out the housing market—again—one man is going all in: James Dainard. If you’ve listened to On the Market for a while, you know James is never not buying—but what he’s buying changes by the week, or even by the day. Last year, James got burned (a bit) on house flipping and new development, but reassessed his almost unbeatable investing framework and is now saying there’s one particular asset class he’s hungry to acquire—and it’s on serious discount. So today, we’re picking the brain of the man with 1,000+ rental units who’s flipped thousands of homes and knows the market better than any economist, since he’s on the ground buying and selling every single day. James shares the “best buy” of 2026, the one thing you must account for if you’re flipping or doing any renovation project, the single best rental for small investors to start with (and how to find them on-market at discount), and the one high-return deal he’d do as a new real estate investor. This is what’s working in real estate right now in 2026. In This Episode We Cover The overlooked (and underpriced) properties James is heavily targeting in 2026 How to find on-market, discounted rentals perfect for small investors The “buyer psychology” changes in the market that flippers must be aware of One high-return real estate deal new investors should heavily consider in 2026 One cost to add to every renovation project to ensure you stay on budget And So Much More! Links from the Show ⁠Join the Future of Real Estate Investing with Fundrise⁠ ⁠Join BiggerPockets for FREE⁠ ⁠Join us at the BiggerPockets Conference October 2-4 in Orlando. Buy tickets⁠ ⁠Sign Up for the On the Market Newsletter⁠ ⁠Find Investor-Friendly Lenders⁠ ⁠On the Market 410 - The First Domino? Investors Pull Billions as Real Estate Bank Runs Return⁠ ⁠Dave's BiggerPockets Profile⁠ BiggerPockets Real Estate 1100 - The Ultimate Underrated Rental Property (for Small Investors) w/Brian Burke Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/on-the-market-412 . 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	Every time we start to think that the market is getting a little less confusing or a little more predictable, some wrench gets thrown into it and everything just feels totally up in the air again.
0:18.7	And that can make it difficult to figure out what is actually working in real estate
0:23.4	right now, what strategies and what tactics should you be using amongst the constantly
0:28.8	changing environment that we're in?
0:30.9	But we can help you answer this question.
0:33.1	Today, we are bringing on our dear friend, regular panelists, James Dainer, to walk us through
0:38.9	what's actually working. If you're a regular here, you already know James. He's on the show
0:44.9	all the time. He's the host of the A&E show, Million Dollar Zombie Flip, and he is one of the only
0:50.4	investors I know who does every kind of investing. He flips, he does buy and hold,
0:56.0	he does development, he's a lender, he does a little bit of everything. And that gives him
1:00.2	a unique ability to help us understand what is actually working in this weird and confusing
1:05.8	market. Because even though things seem less certain than usual, which is true, things are absolutely
1:11.9	still working as James is about to share with us.
1:15.2	And by listening to James and understanding what he's doing with his business, you too can
1:19.6	figure out how to grow your portfolio and achieve your financial goals even during this
1:25.0	confusing market.
1:26.2	Let's bring on James.
1:29.1	James, man, thanks for being here.
1:34.9	I'm excited to pick your brain because as everyone knows right now, it's been a weird,
1:40.2	confusing year in real estate, but you do everything, right? You flip, you do buy and hold,
1:45.9	you do burrs, you do development, you do private lending, like you do everything. And so I just kind of want to understand from you and have a conversation about what's working, what's not,
1:50.9	and what our audience should be thinking about right now. So maybe let's just start with like,
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