Will mortgage rates remain above seven percent in 2025? Are we closer to a recession than most Americans realize? Why does it feel like this economic cycle of high rates and a struggling middle class will never end? The biggest question is: What do all these factors mean for real estate, and should you still be investing? We brought on the man who literally wrote the book on Recession-Proof Real Estate Investing to give his 2025 outlook.
J Scott has flipped over 500 homes, manages and owns thousands of rental units, and has been involved in tens of millions of dollars in real estate transactions. He started investing in 2008; he’s seen the worst of recessions and the highest of pricing peaks. We brought him back on the show as our industry expert to provide his time-tested take on what could happen in 2025 and share his economic framework for forecasting what’s coming next.
J says we’re long overdue for a recession—and the red flags are popping up more frequently. While signs of a global recession loom, J explains what this means for mortgage rates and home prices and why now might still be the time to invest.
Dave:
Hey everyone, Dave Meyer here from BiggerPockets right now at the start of a new year, it is the perfect time to take somewhat of a reset and make a plan on how to maximize your financial position over the next 12 months. And on this channel, we firmly believe that investing in real estate is the single best way to do that, but we also at the same time understand that a lot of you may not have ever invested before, or maybe you have, but you sat out 2024 because it was a really confusing and uncertain year. So today we’re going to catch you up by asking a few of the biggest questions about the year ahead. We’re going to cover mortgage rates and whether there’s any hope of rate relief in the coming year, we’ll talk about whether the entire world is basically missing recession red flags in the us, and we’ll talk about some potential Trump…