Decoding the 2025 Housing Market with Bill McBride
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In this episode of the Top of Mind podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Bill McBride from Calculated Risk to talk about what to expect in the housing market in 2025 and beyond.
About Bill McBride
Bill McBride is a housing market expert and the author of the popular economics blog and newsletter “Calculated Risk”, which Nobel laureate economists have cited as a “go-to website for housing matters.” Bill may be best known for accurately predicting the housing bubble in 2005, and the bottom in housing prices in early 2012.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- Why the US housing market faces “seven years of purgatory”
- Why inventory is more important than sales numbers for understanding the housing market
- The market stat that Bill is watching this year and what it tells us to expect
- Why mortgage rates will be stuck above 6% for a while
- What’s on the horizon for recessions, inflation, and employment in 2025 and what it all means for the real estate market
- How to measure home prices and what to expect for 2025
- Why investors are less impactful in 2025 than they were a few years ago
- How to spot a brewing financial crisis
- The longer-term impact of changing demographics
- How to view the affordability crisis and what’s likely to happen
- A look at the 2030 housing market
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The Top of Mind podcast features top real estate industry insiders and experts to unpack the most important housing, real estate, mortgage data and trends that are shaping the housing market. Hosted by Altos founder Mike Simonsen and produced by the HousingWire Content Studio.
