Want to Invest in Real Estate in 2026? Listen to This First

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Business, Education, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This could make you much wealthier in 2026—and all you need is around 30 minutes of free time. Throughout 2025, three days a week, we’ve interviewed some of the best and brightest real estate investors in the country. They’ve launched new strategies that have made them millions, shared tips that can turn any rental from a dud to a deal, and even explained their exact buy boxes and techniques for building wealth. Today, we’ve compiled some of the most valuable advice we’ve received in 2025 into a holiday gift for you. We’ll talk about the real financial freedom you receive as a real estate investor, how just one rental property (not dozens) can be enough to change your life, why the most successful investors tell everyone that they invest in real estate—and how it pays off, a new BRRRR strategy, and the best rental renovations with significant returns. Even against the mainstream narrative, real estate investors grew their wealth substantially in 2025. And 2026 could get even better… In This Episode We Cover Why financial freedom is not what you think it is (the truth) One rental property can change your entire life, and how a beginner investor replaced her salary with real estate in four years The unbelievable real estate deal this rookie got by telling everyone that she invests in real estate The “slow BRRRR” method that makes you wealthy with way less stress The best rental renovations for $5,000 (or less) with up to a 300% return potential! And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1217 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	These were the Bigger Pockets podcast episodes that defined real estate investing in 2025.
0:11.0	Hey everyone, Dave here. I hope you're all enjoying the holiday season with your friends and family.
0:16.8	It has been another transformative year in real estate. The market continues to evolve, and the investors who are thriving are the ones who've adapted their strategies to match current conditions rather than waiting for things to go back to normal.
0:30.8	On today's show, we're going to recap some of the biggest investing trends and topics we focused on in 2025 by replaying portions of the
0:38.9	year's most popular Bigger Pockets podcast episodes. These are the shows that resonated most
0:44.0	with the Bigger Pockets community when they were first published, and so I hope revisiting them
0:48.4	today will help inspire you as you plan for investing in 26. We're going to republish a few other popular episodes of the show
0:56.6	and from across the entire Bigger Pockets Network over the next week, and then we will return
1:01.6	with brand new podcasts starting on January 2nd. The first episode I'm going to revisit today
1:06.9	is back from January because last year, I started off the year by sharing my
1:12.1	upside era framework for the first time. The idea behind it is that we are in a new era of
1:19.1	investing. And even though real estate may not be as obvious as it was a few years ago,
1:25.1	it is still the best path to securing your financial future,
1:29.0	and it's better than any other way to invest your money. This episode was called The Real Estate
1:34.6	Financial Freedom Formula has changed. It was released in January 2025, and I think my conversation
1:41.1	with Henry Washington holds up just as well now as it did almost
1:45.4	a full year ago.
1:46.6	I think the problem is that we treat financial independence as binary.
1:53.0	It's like either you're financially free or you're not.
1:56.2	When reality, like, it is a path.
1:59.0	And the goal, at least for me, has always been to just become more financially
2:03.6	independent, right? Every deal you do, every financial decision you make will hopefully put you
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