ilmscore | Housing Market Predictions
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Recent Predictions

Total: 162
Correct: 14
Incorrect: 5
Pending: 143
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The housing market was predicted to be flat in 2025.
"I actually said in the beginning of last year, about one year ago, that we were probably going to ha..."
Jan 23, 2026
Pending
The housing market is predicted to remain flat for several years, starting from 2026, assuming no black swan events or quantitative easing.
"I think we are going to be in a flat market for several years, barring some black swan event or some..."
Jan 23, 2026
Pending
The 2026 housing market is predicted to be slow.
"the most likely outcome for this year is a market that is slow."
Jan 22, 2026
Pending
A three-phase process, including the buying of mortgage-backed securities, is predicted to lower home prices for Americans.
"this is a part of a three-phase process to lower home prices for Americans."
Jan 11, 2026
Pending
Donald Trump plans to call on Congress to codify a ban on institutional investors buying single-family homes.
"And I will be calling on Congress to codify it."
Jan 8, 2026
Pending
Banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes could lead to increased home prices and reduced supply, negatively impacting those it aims to help.
"this could actually wind up increasing home prices. It could reduce supply even further and it could..."
Jan 8, 2026
Pending
Institutional investors could increase their ownership of American housing stock in the future, contributing to worsening housing unaffordability.
"given the unaffordability of housing and how much money these companies have, it could get worse in ..."
Jan 8, 2026
Pending
Home prices might actually fall.
"They might actually fall."
Jan 8, 2026
Pending
Home prices are predicted to remain flat.
"Home prices are going to be flat."
Jan 8, 2026
Pending
If institutional investors are banned from buying single family homes and stop purchasing in active markets like Charlotte or Orlando, those markets will experience increased housing inventory, less competition, and potentially lower prices.
"Like if you live in a place like Charlotte or Orlando, you'll see more inventory, less competition, ..."
Jan 8, 2026
Pending
A decrease in mortgage rates to around 4% could incentivize more home purchases, potentially increasing housing prices.
"If mortgage rates were to fall from 6 6 1/2% where they are today, let's just say 4%. In 12 months, ..."
Dec 27, 2025
Correct
A decrease in mortgage rates is predicted to increase demand for housing, potentially driving up home prices.
"In 12 months, what is going to happen? Well, chances are number one, people are going to want to buy..."
Dec 27, 2025
Correct
The housing market will unfreeze in 2026, start to heat up in 2027, and return to a hot market by 2028.
"It's going to unfreeze the housing market in 26. The housing market's been frozen for years now...Ho..."
Dec 16, 2025
Pending
The housing market is predicted to follow a path of slow and steady return to affordability.
"I think for the housing market, the much more likely path is a slow and steady return to affordabili..."
Dec 5, 2025
Pending
Predicted that housing will never look or cost the same as it did in the 1950s.
"we have to come to the reality that housing is never going to look the same or cost the same as it d..."
Dec 3, 2025
Pending
The housing market is expected to experience a normal correction, not a full-blown crash.
"these all point to a more normal correction... and does not point to a full-blown crash."
Nov 20, 2025
Pending
Housing prices are expected to decline as part of a market correction.
"I believe that we're in a housing correction where prices are likely to decline."
Nov 20, 2025
Pending
The housing market is entering a 'great stall' where home prices will remain flat or experience modest declines.
"I expect, I've talked about this before, that we're going into a great stall where prices are going ..."
Oct 31, 2025
Pending
The current flat housing market conditions are predicted to persist for an extended period.
"to me it feels like this might last a while though like it's might not just be a moment in time wher..."
Oct 29, 2025
Pending
The current stall in real home prices, which has lasted about 38 months, is predicted to continue.
"We've actually seen real home prices stall out for I think it's like 38 months now. You know threeis..."
Oct 29, 2025
Pending
Housing prices are predicted to decrease slightly within the next year (from 2025-10-15).
"I think prices will come down a little bit in the next year."
Oct 15, 2025
Pending
The government shutdown, by itself, will not fundamentally alter the housing market.
"If you look at the shutdown just on its own, it's not really going to fundamentally change the housi..."
Oct 14, 2025
Pending
Disruptions like the government shutdown are predicted to worsen the ongoing housing market correction.
"housing market is already in a correction and these kinds of disruptions can make that even worse."
Oct 14, 2025
Pending
Predicted that in many cities, it will take 25 to 30 years for buying a home to break even with renting.
"it could be 25 to 30 years just before buying a home breaks even to that of renting."
Oct 5, 2025
Pending
The national housing market is predicted to remain relatively flat, with price changes within plus or minus 2-3 percentage points, for the remainder of 2025.
"my forecast for the remainder of the year is that we are going to remain relatively flat. I'm stick ..."
Sep 28, 2025
Pending
National housing market prices to change by plus or minus 2-3% in 2025.
"my forecast for the remainder of the year is that we are going to remain relatively flat. I'm stick ..."
Sep 28, 2025
Pending
The single-family housing market is predicted to experience a 30% price decline (haircut) over the next few years, potentially crashing out by 2028 or sooner.
"If you have cash and you can move in on a 30% haircut in single family over the course of the next f..."
Sep 24, 2025
Pending
Housing affordability is predicted to worsen due to tightening supply and rebounding demand from rate cuts.
"Housing is set to become even less affordable."
Sep 22, 2025
Pending
Housing is predicted to become even less affordable in the future.
"Housing is set to become even less affordable."
Sep 22, 2025
Pending
Private equity firms could own 40% of US rental houses by 2030.
"And it looks like it could potentially rise to 40% of all rental houses in the United States by 2030..."
Sep 18, 2025
Pending
TJ predicts that housing affordability will improve when the wealthy elite stop using real estate as a store of value, but notes this will take a long time (decades).
"housing affordability will come back is if the wealthy elite don't use it for a store value. But tha..."
Sep 17, 2025
Pending
Predicted that housing prices will continue to soften and may decline relative to inflation in the near future, but a crash is unlikely.
"realistically, housing prices will continue to soften as more inventory gets listed on the market an..."
Sep 17, 2025
Correct
The housing market will not enter a frenzy similar to previous years, despite recent affordability improvements.
"And although I don't think this is going to launch the market into some frenzy like we saw the last ..."
Sep 10, 2025
Pending
The housing market will not launch into a frenzy similar to previous years despite recent affordability gains.
"I don't think this is going to launch the market into some frenzy like we saw the last couple of yea..."
Sep 10, 2025
Pending
Sustained high borrowing costs will lead to stalled or declining home prices.
"So, if borrowing costs stay this high for this long, home prices will either have to stall or come d..."
Sep 9, 2025
Correct
Home prices are predicted to either stagnate, grow by 1-2%, or decline due to increased inventory from rate-locked owners selling.
"At best home prices will stay flat or they'll grow at 1 to 2%. And at worst, we might see deflation ..."
Sep 9, 2025
Correct
The volatile 'roller coaster' trend observed in the housing market over the past year is predicted to continue until mortgage rates approach 6%.
"Until then, I think the roller coaster ride that we've been on for basically the last year keeps rol..."
Sep 4, 2025
Pending
If mortgage rates drop closer to 6%, the housing market will see a significant increase in activity.
"But if they do, and rates get closer to 6%, I think that's when we'll really start to see a lot of e..."
Sep 4, 2025
Pending
Until mortgage rates fall closer to 6%, the housing market's current volatility and uncertainty will continue.
"Until then, I think the roller coaster ride that we've been on for basically the last year keeps rol..."
Sep 4, 2025
Pending
Predicted that baby boomers will exit their homes by 2035, increasing housing market inventory.
"Or baby boomers exit their homes, helping supply much needed inventory back onto the market by 2035."
Aug 27, 2025
Pending
Falling mortgage interest rates are predicted to positively impact home prices.
"as mortgage interest rates fall, it's going to be a tailwind for home prices."
Aug 25, 2025
Correct
Home prices in many markets predicted to start declining by the end of 2025.
"prices, at least to me, are likely to begin to decline in a lot of markets by the end of the year."
Aug 18, 2025
Pending
Properties purchased between 2015-2018 are predicted to be more distressed when they hit the market in the next couple of years (2025-2027).
"I suspect over the next couple years, as we start to see these properties hitting the market that we..."
Aug 18, 2025
Pending
In current/emerging buyer markets, well-renovated homes will maintain or increase value, while distressed properties will decline in value and be available at a significant discount.
"during these kind of sideways markets or when we get into more of a buyer market like we're getting ..."
Aug 18, 2025
Pending
(Citing Kobe Letter) If proposed rate cuts occur, home prices are predicted to surge by 10% within a year.
"In our view, home prices would surge by 10% in a year."
Aug 14, 2025
Pending
Lowering interest rates while inflation is rising is predicted to worsen the housing market.
"if you lower rates with rising inflation, it's not going to to improve the housing market. In fact, ..."
Aug 14, 2025
Pending
A rate cut by the Fed while inflation is rising is expected to worsen the housing market.
"if you lower rates with rising inflation, it's not going to affect it's not going to to improve the ..."
Aug 14, 2025
Pending
The speaker predicts that housing costs in Texas will be cheaper, specifically mentioning the Panhandle region as preferable to Austin, suggesting a potential move there for affordability.
"If we move down to Texas, it will. Um, panhandle, please. Thank Okay, then. God, I don't want to liv..."
Aug 11, 2025
Correct
More housing markets are predicted to enter correction territory.
"I do expect that we're going to see more and more markets go into correction territory."
Aug 7, 2025
Pending
National home prices predicted to decline a little bit in 2025.
"So there is some risk that national home prices do decline a little bit this year."
Jul 3, 2025
Pending