Can Investors Time The Real Estate Market?

Source: Forbes — 

Think for a moment about today’s real estate market. The rebound from the pandemic is real, and rental and sales numbers are breaking records every day. Is now a good time to jump in? It’s a controversial topic, but unfortunately, unless you can predict the future, I do not believe there is a way to time the market.

Yes, the typical real estate cycle is 18 years and runs through 4 phases (recovery, expansion, hyper supply and recession)—but it’s not so easy to know where you are in the cycle until after it ends.

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