Want to Buy Real Estate in 2025? Listen to This FIRST (Best Advice of 2024)

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Investing, Education, Business

4.8 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Want to invest in real estate in 2025? Then this is the show to listen to. We’ve had some phenomenal guests on the show this past year. This time, we rounded up our favorite tips from them, ranging from starting with $50,000, which markets to buy in, and how to retire early with fewer rentals, and compiled them into one life-changing episode. These were the episodes you all loved the most, so we’re taking the golden nuggets and giving them to you today! Is it still worth it to invest in real estate when prices are so high, and affordability is so low? CEO of BiggerPockets, Scott Trench, gives his honest, raw opinion. Next, two investors who retired with small real estate portfolios share why you DON’T need dozens of rental properties to reach financial freedom. You might need just one! Plus, we’ll show YOU the best way to start investing with $50,000. Finally, we’re breaking down the real estate markets we believe are the best for beginners and the ones with the most bang for your buck. Will Trump’s housing policies change the market? What will tariffs and tax cuts do to real estate? Stick around; we also share our thoughts on Trump’s 2025 plans! In This Episode We Cover: How to retire early with fewer rental properties by building a “small and mighty” real estate portfolio Why this expert investor only has ONE rental property (and doesn’t plan to buy more) How to invest in real estate with just $50,000 (beginner-friendly tactics!) The best real estate investing markets that we’d start in if we were beginners What the Trump administration’s proposals could mean for the housing market And So Much More! Links from the Show Join BiggerPockets for FREE Let Us Know What You Thought of the Show! Ask Your Question on the BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets YouTube BiggerPockets Real Estate Episode 1,004 - How to Retire Early with Fewer Rental Properties Than You Think w/Chad Carson BiggerPockets Real Estate Episode 1,007 - Where We’d Invest in Real Estate in 2024 if We Were Starting from Scratch w/Ashley Kehr and Henry Washington BiggerPockets Real Estate Episode 1,024 - A Better Retirement After Buying Just ONE Rental (and Never FOMO-ing) w/Mike Baum BiggerPockets Real Estate Episode 1,028 - How to Invest in Real Estate with $50K in 2024 w/Ashley Kehr On the Market Episode 250 - Trump vs. Harris Economic Plans: Taxes, Affordable Housing, and Inflation w/Joel Naroff Millions of Americans Should Keep Their Homes as Rentals, Not Sell. Here’s Why. Yes, I’m Afraid of a Real Estate Bubble—But I Continue to Invest Anyway. Here’s Why. Top 10 Real Estate Markets for Cash Flow in 2024 Trump Wins Presidential Election: What It Means for the Housing Market Grab Chad’s Book, “The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor” Find Investor-Friendly Lenders BiggerPockets Real Estate 1,000 - Real Estate Is Changing, and So Is BiggerPockets Connect with Dave (00:00) Intro (02:34) Is Real Estate STILL Worth It? (11:06) Retire Early with FEWER Rentals! (22:57) Don't FOMO Into Investing! (29:20) How to Invest $50K (42:06) Best Markets for Beginners (53:08) Trump’s Tax Cuts, Tariffs Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1060 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	What's up, everyone? We are here. We have reached the final full week of 2024. And I hope you're all taking a little bit of time to enjoy yourself during this holiday season with your friends and family. It has been a crazy year in real estate, and we can definitely say that for pretty
0:22.2	much every year since at least 2022, but it is still true. And on today's show, we're going to recap
0:28.3	some of the big investing trends and topics that we focused on in 2024 by replaying portions
0:35.1	of this year's most popular podcast episodes. These are the shows that you found
0:40.1	the most useful when they aired. And I think all of the info and advice in them still completely
0:45.6	resonates today. And they may even spur some creative ideas for your investing heading into
0:50.7	2025. And just a quick piece of housekeeping before we move on, we're going to have this show
0:56.5	today.
0:57.1	And then over the next couple of weeks, we are going to republish a few of our favorite episodes
1:02.0	from other podcasts in the Bigger Pockets Network on this feed before we're back with fresh
1:07.7	new real estate podcast episodes starting January 1st. So for today, though,
1:12.8	I want to start by replaying some of BiggerPockets Real Estate's episode 1,000, which aired back on
1:19.4	August 5th. Of course, reaching 1,000 episodes was a huge milestone for the show, but it was also
1:24.5	a really big milestone for me personally because that's when I became
1:28.3	the new full-time host. And for someone who has worked at Bigger Pockets for a really long time,
1:34.1	eight years, in fact, before I started hosting this show. I understand the huge power of this
1:40.4	platform and the influence that it has within the Bigger Pockets community and the entire
1:45.0	real estate investing industry as a whole. And that is a big responsibility. It's one I think
1:50.4	about a lot. And we titled episode 1000, Real Estate is Changing and so is Bigger Pockets to
1:57.4	reflect that big shift. Anyone who is big in the game for even a few years knows
2:03.3	that the strategies that worked even in 2021 or in 2022, they just don't really function the same
2:10.0	way in this current market. And we're going to have a lot more to say about this. I've been
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