The 2024 housing market isn’t turning out how most of us thought. At the beginning of the year, real estate investors were hopeful that mortgage rates would fall, affordability would return, and home prices would have a chance to stabilize before going back up. But none of those things happened. Rates are still high, affordability is at a forty-year low, and ... Show More
Sep 11
High-ROI, Value-Add Renovations for Any Investor (and How Much They'll Cost)
Investors have used the same proven formula for decades: Buy a discounted property, renovate it, and increase its value by tens or sometimes even hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s a simple investing strategy, and yet it’s one of the best ways to get rich through real estate ... Show More
37m 39s
Jul 2024
233: Housing Market “Stuck” Until 2026 as Insurance Prices Rise, Rents Slow
See Dave, Henry, James, and Kathy at BPCon2024 in Cancún, Mexico! Grab your ticket here! The housing market is “stuck” and may stay that way for the next two years. With low inventory, high mortgage rates, stunted demand, and high rents, it seems like there’s nowhere to go. If yo ... Show More
36m 40s
Jun 2022
11: Migration, Inflation, and Why Big Cities Are Losing Their "Desirable" Status w/Redfin’s Taylor Marr
Over the past two years, home prices have looked as if they’re never going to drop. With record-low interest rates, a newly formed remote work culture, and millennials at peak homebuying age, who would have thought that lower home prices would come so soon. Although traditionally ... Show More
58m 9s
Apr 2022
171: The 2022 Housing Market Explained: Is Now a Good Time to Buy? w/Dave Meyer
The 2022 housing market is off to a wild start. We’ve seen home inventory at decade lows, interest rates have finally started to rise, and more homebuyers are looking at fewer houses. As a real estate investor, it can be tough to navigate a market like this, especially when you’v ... Show More
57m 39s
Apr 2022
2: What the Average Homebuyer Can Learn from House-Hungry Investors
The housing market relies on many things: market sentiment, Federal Reserve policy, supply, demand, interest rates, inflation—the list goes on and on. For most homebuyers, it may seem almost impossible to crack the code of when (or if) it makes sense to buy a home or rental prope ... Show More
1h 1m
Sep 2024
510 | Real Estate 2024 Update
Most people believe rising interest rates make homes cheaper—but the opposite is happening. Scott Trench, CEO of BiggerPockets, explains how the 'lock-in effect' has frozen the housing market: homeowners with 3% mortgages refuse to sell, strangling inventory while affordability c ... Show More
54m 57s
Aug 2024
239: THE HUGE Downside of No-Income-Tax States and a Hidden Housing Market Threat
Why is everyone ignoring this one severe housing market trend, what does a 2008 crash predictor think will happen in 2025, and why are homes starting to sit longer on the market, even with mortgage rates starting to fall? Are all the headlines pointing to housing market havoc or ... Show More
39m 43s