US Housing Market Predictions

Browse US Housing Market market predictions and forecasts from well-known financial commentators. Each prediction is tracked from the date it was published to its estimated deadline, then graded correct or wrong based on the outcome.

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54 forecasts
Person Subject Forecast* Source Date Deadline** Outcome
Harry Dent US Housing Market Average US home prices (e.g. Ohio) will fall 60% from current levels back to 2012 lows
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[16:09] the average house in Ohio going to have to go down 60% versus 34% in the last recession

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-08-18 2030-12-31 pending
Harry Dent US Housing Market High-end real estate in markets like New York and California will fall 70-80%
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[16:25] imagine what high-end real estate does in New York or California, you know, or places like that. Um 70-80%. This has never happened.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-08-18 2030-12-31 pending
Michael Pento US Housing Market Real estate prices will drop between 25% and 30% (minimum) when the bubble bursts
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[36:30] in in the real estate market you need a between at le I would say around my work shows around 30%. Between 25 and 30% that would bring the home price to income ratio close to where it should be. Um so that's a minimum uh drop.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-08-04 2028-08-04 pending
Ivy Zelman US Housing Market Home prices in Midwest and coastal markets like Hartford and Cleveland will continue to rise mid single digits
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[2:30] home prices are up mid single digits there and likely to continue to rise. I live in Cleveland, similar story, really no development, home prices are still up mid single digits.

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Wealthion 2026-07-30 2026-12-31 pending
Ivy Zelman US Housing Market Multifamily rent growth will improve and recover starting in 2027
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[18:30] multifamily should be back poised to see better rent growth. And we think that starts to happen in '27.

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Wealthion 2026-07-30 2027-12-31 pending
Ivy Zelman US Housing Market Institutional investment in single-family build-for-rent is set to pick back up after a period of legislative uncertainty
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[16:13] that's set to pick back up again because there was an exclusion where you can build for rent would be allowed for institutional investors and there was legislation that kind of was suggesting that wasn't going to be the case.

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Wealthion 2026-07-30 2027-12-31 pending
Michael Pento US Housing Market Home prices will drop approximately 30% to revert to historical price-to-income norms during the next downturn.
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[17:38] Home prices have to drop using that same logic, home price income ratios have to drop about 30% just to go back to historical normal levels.

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ITM Trading 2026-07-24 2030-07-24 pending
Edward Dowd US Housing Market US home prices will reset lower, declining roughly 30% from current levels
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[5:43] Home prices are about 30% overvalued. That's 20% of our economy. The real estate market is essentially frozen... They need to reset. And they will eventually.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-07-21 2028-07-21 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market By Q4 2026, distressed home sales will increase significantly compared to previously seen levels.
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[0:07] we're going to round the corner to Q4 and we're going to have a lot more distressed sales than we've seen uh previously.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-19 2026-12-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market The current housing market correction will be worse than the Global Financial Crisis correction on a peak-to-trough basis.
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[1:39] Yes, I still believe that because there's no buyers. um there's no buyers and so the general state of the housing market right now is that the selling season was an extreme disappointment for everyone... I do believe that this will be likely worse than what we went through because of our demographics and because the institutional investors, you know, kind of bailed us out last time by buying up those homes to do long-term rental.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-19 2030-12-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market Foreclosure sales will increase significantly by Q1 2027.
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[13:57] we are going to see an increase and a significant one by Q1 of foreclosure sales.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-19 2027-03-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market The number of major markets with year-over-year home price declines will continue to expand beyond the current 41 of the top 100 markets.
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[9:28] already K. Schiller has seen in 41 of the largest 100 markets in the country year-over-year price declines. And so, like, let's take my series. Last year, there were 23 year-over-year in June. This, you know, there's 32 this year. So this thing is just it's moving Adam is just moving very very slowly

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-19 2026-12-31 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market The national housing market will continue to see price declines on average in the near term
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[3:03] I don't want to sugarcoat the fact that I think there's still a lot of negativity ahead on average for the national housing market.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-08 2027-07-08 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market More distressed home sellers will come to market in the future, increasing distressed inventory
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[10:02] What I think we're going to see even more of in the future is people who bought with these high prices and high payments are going to end up selling in distress.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-08 2027-07-08 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market Payment pressure on existing homeowners will build over the next year as more owners convert to higher mortgage rates
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[15:29] What I think we're going to see is just more of that pressure build over the next year, especially as more and more of the existing owner population converts to the higher mortgage rates.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-08 2027-07-08 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market Home buyer demand will remain depressed for approximately four more years, with only modest improvement
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[20:02] I think we could just continue to see this low demand that we've now seen for four years. I think we could see it for another four years. Now, it'll improve a little bit over those four years, but I don't think we're anywhere close to buyers jumping back in.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-08 2030-07-08 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market Home prices in distressed Sunbelt and Mountain West markets will continue falling toward 2017-2019 price levels
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[12:39] This is the first time that we're actually really starting to see price points that are 2017, 2018, 2019 price points for sale on the market. And uh this is actually something I did myself two or three months ago as well.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-08 2027-07-08 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market Colorado and Washington state home prices will decline approximately 6% over the next 12 months
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[38:33] If you see a big downward forecast like in Colorado, 6% in a year at a state level is a huge downward forecast. Washington were minus 6% as well.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-07-08 2027-07-08 pending
Harry Dent US Housing Market US housing prices will decline 50-70% during the coming downturn
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[30:09] Housing's going to go down not as much as the stock market, but 50-60-70% and David, that is what's the worst thing for the economy.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-03 2029-12-31 pending
Harry Dent US Housing Market Real estate will have negative net demand trends long-term as baby boomers sell faster than millennials buy, and will not recover to prior prominence as an investment
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[30:38] real estate will never be the same when we come out of this downturn, okay? Because real estate lasts forever, unlike stocks and other investments, and and basically is the baby boom dies out, there's going to be not enough investment to keep real estate will actually have negative net demand trends because baby boomers will start selling faster than millennials are buying

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-03 2040-12-31 pending
Sam Rahman US Housing Market Housing sector will benefit positively from declining bond yields through the rest of 2026
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[35:40] we're we're very positive on yield sensitive, rate sensitive industries like housing and to some extent financials. And bond yields coming down as inflation sort of cools off through the rest of year, I think it's going to be positive for the broader markets as a whole, not just tech.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-02 2026-12-31 pending
Eric Basmajian US Housing Market Home building activity will remain structurally squeezed due to long-term underinvestment, persisting into the foreseeable future
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[21:34] home building activity is going to remain structurally squeezed... it's going to be an area that I think remains uh difficult uh regardless of what happens with energy costs just because of the structural underinvestment that's been going on over the last 20 years and what's likely to persist.

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The David Lin Report 2026-07-01 2027-12-31 pending
Danielle DiMartino Booth US Housing Market Home price declines will expand beyond the Sun Belt to broader US markets
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[38:18] we're seeing home price declines expand beyond just the sunb belt.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-06-30 2026-12-30 pending
Marc Faber US Housing Market Home prices will go down as part of a broader asset price deflation
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[47:03] my view would be that there is a big disappointment coming. That both home prices will go down and stocks price will go down.

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Wealthion 2026-06-24 2028-06-24 pending
Ed Dowd US Housing Market US home prices will continue to decline and filter through the economy over the next 6 to 12 months as construction layoffs continue.
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[1:33] home prices g nationally are starting to roll. There's still some bright spots in the blue cities. So, uh nationally, they're starting to roll over and that's 20% of the economy... So that should should filter in over the next uh 6 to 12 months as construction layoffs continue.

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ITM Trading 2026-06-05 2026-12-05 pending
Bill Smead US Housing Market Homebuilder stocks (Lennar, D.R. Horton, NVR) have a bright future driven by structural housing undersupply relative to population
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[38:39] So we like the home builders. It's you have to buy the home builders when there's no hope. Right. That there's lots of people that don't have a home, but there's no hope. And that means you're getting low prices... we own LAR, we own Horton, and we own NVR. And and and and we we we think they have a bright future.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2031-06-05 pending
Jimmy Lebenthal US Housing Market The US housing market will not pick up meaningfully in the near term as mortgage rates will remain elevated
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[26:07] I just can't see mortgage rates really coming down... it's really hard to see the housing market at large picking up with interest rates where they are.

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In the Money 2026-06-02 2027-06-02 pending
Edward Dowd US Housing Market US national housing prices will continue to decline and spread to more markets including blue cities throughout 2026
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[3:56] Housing prices are finally starting to give up the ghost. We had some bad home price declines in March, February, and March... home price declines really started in the south near the border... we're starting to see national prices come down

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-21 2026-12-31 pending
Ted Oakley US Housing Market Residential real estate will remain depressed for a long time due to demographic dynamics with baby boomers holding properties at unrealistic valuations
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[30:46] Residential I think will be I think it'll be under the water for a long long time because of your demographics. You have this baby boomers that own all the big houses or all the houses and they have this idea in their mind about the house is worth. So they're stuck on it and they and they'll take it off the market and put it back on but it doesn't sell. And we're probably in that situation for a long time now.

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Kitco NEWS 2026-05-19 2030-05-19 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market US home prices will decline 10-12% in the first wave of correction over the next couple of years
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[27:36] I think the first wave will be you know significant wave probably the first 10 to 12% will happen over the next couple of years.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-14 2028-05-14 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market US home prices will ultimately correct 35-50% from current levels over a multi-year period
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[18:22] what that means is likely about a 35 to 50% correction depending on where you are... I think at this point it's very likely... this is going to take a very long time to happen.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-14 2036-05-14 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market Foreclosure sales will increase significantly by the end of 2026
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[29:54] we are going to start to see foreclosure sales go up significantly by the end of this year.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-14 2026-12-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market Prime mortgage delinquencies (Fannie and Freddie) will continue to rise, spreading weakness beyond FHA loans
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[20:42] we're starting to see our first prime weakness now. So, FHA had been the driver... But now, what you're starting to see is the Prime books. That's Fanny and Freddy, and this should be pristine credit. And now, what they've done over the past several years... now you're seeing it on in the agency books. Um like it's happening.

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The Julia La Roche Show 2026-05-14 2027-05-14 pending
Stefan Rust US Housing Market Housing prices in major cities like San Francisco, LA, and New York will decline while secondary markets will see price increases
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[15:16] What's happening is big cities, San Francisco, LA, New York are going to see a decline in in housing prices, but we're going to see a rise in housing prices in secondary markets.

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Wealthion 2026-05-07 2027-05-07 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market A material surge in foreclosure sales will occur by Q4 2026
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[36:52] and then by Q4 uh you are going to have a material population as those people that called in November um are basically uh cuz those three months they didn't pay their trial payments they're al they're going that would have to go into the forbearance. So, right around Q4 after the election is when you're going to start to see uh and I'm not laughing about this, it's just the data just got really interesting and and so but you're you're going to start to see a real material buildup of sales.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-06 2026-12-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market US home prices will decline approximately 35% nationally from peak
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[20:57] Again, you still think nationally prices could go down somewhere in the 35% range. And nationally, we're still what I mean, are we even down more than a%? We're not even negative yet.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-06 2028-12-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market US home prices will fail to peak in June 2026 as they normally do seasonally, signaling continued price weakness
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[21:43] Um, but when I saw that Freddy Mack home price index, um, I I I think it was yesterday or two days ago, I was like, 'Oh, no.' like this this actually could we could for the first time in many many many years not peak out completely in June.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-06 2026-08-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market The Midwest housing market correction will happen faster than other regions as the data center speculation bust drives a rapid inventory and price correction
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[18:05] so it's we're going to see that correction and it could actually happen a little bit faster in the Midwest because I think their realization will come faster.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-06 2027-12-31 pending
Melody Wright US Housing Market Austin housing market has not bottomed and will continue declining
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[20:20] I don't think we've hit the bottom. I think a lot of people are saying we've hit the bottom in San Francisco. Um I think if we have any sort of correction and uh any of these stocks like Nvidia like the B we haven't even begun there. So I think we're again at this sort of turning point. Um but no I don't think Austin is dawn. I really don't.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-05-06 2027-12-31 pending
Chris Vermeulen US Housing Market Real estate pricing will be sharply lower by the end of this year
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[0:18] By the end of this year, I think real estate pricing is going to be sharply lower.

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The David Lin Report 2026-04-30 2026-12-31 pending
Mark Newton US Housing Market Real estate will peak in 2026 or 2027 and reach a cyclical low in 2028-2029
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[23:21] my own time frame for real estate is that we peak this or next year and pull back into probably 28 20 20 and that should be a cyclical long-term low for the real estate market.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-04-23 2029-12-31 pending
Ron Butler US Housing Market The US housing market will see a slowdown in new home purchase activity on average
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[4:11] I believe we will see some slowdown in purchase activity again. It's a big big country. There's all kinds of different markets, but I would suggest on average we will see a slowdown in in new home purchase.

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The David Lin Report 2026-04-03 2026-10-03 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market Home prices will decline in about half of the US housing market in 2026.
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[2:52] I think we do here at Reventure, Adam. I mean, we have downward forecasts for about half of the US housing market in 2026 based on current data, based on the current data and inventory and days on market. That's not really yet factoring in this recent sales report. And if this demand continues to trend negatively uh like we expected to over the next couple months, I think we're going to probably have to revise down our forecasts in quite a few different states and cities.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-02-17 2026-12-31 pending
Nick Gerli US Housing Market Austin housing market will reach undervalued levels warranting buy signals by middle to end of 2026.
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[4:51] I think probably by the middle to the end of 2026, Reenture might have some buy signals in markets like Austin, uh potentially some markets in Florida where the values have really gone down a lot already.

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Thoughtful Money 2026-02-17 2026-12-31 pending
Jim Welsh US Housing Market Housing prices will come down slowly but surely over the next few years
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[20:48] I think housing prices are in fact going to be coming down uh slowly but surely that will erode the confidence in the spending habits

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The David Lin Report 2026-01-16 2029-01-16 pending
Peter Boockvar US Housing Market Housing rents will accelerate in the second half of 2026 into 2027
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[10:28] we're already sowing the seeds for a further acceleration in rents probably sometime in the back half of next year into 2027

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The David Lin Report 2025-12-18 2027-12-31 pending
Jim Welsh US Housing Market Home prices will decline over the next handful of years
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[15:51] I think home prices over the next handful of years are going to decline.

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The David Lin Report 2025-11-25 2030-12-31 pending
Grant Cardone US Housing Market Rents will double in the next 15 years in America, going from $2,000 to $4,500 per month.
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[0:09] Rents are going to double in the next 15 years in America. They're going to go from 2 grand to 4,500 bucks a month.

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The David Lin Report 2025-10-21 2040-10-21 pending
Mark Zandi US Housing Market Home sales will see slow, steady improvement through 2026 as affordability improves.
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[27:29] I think we're going to see a slow, steady improvement in home sales as affordability, while still really poor, is improving and we should see some more transactions.

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The David Lin Report 2025-10-13 2026-12-31 pending
Danielle DiMartino Booth US Housing Market Home prices will decline
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[17:54] we're going to see home prices decline.

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The David Lin Report 2025-10-02 2026-12-31 pending