The 2026 Housing Market is Here: 3 New Moves We’re Making This Year

Happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to the Bigger Pockets podcast. I'm Dave Meyer, head of real estate investing at Bigger Pockets. I hope you all had a great holiday and are excited as I am to grow your portfolios this year. Today, we're kicking off the new year with New Year's resolutions. And for that, I'm joined by my on the market cohost, Kathy Fecky and Henry Washington. We're gonna share our goals for the year, the strategies we're planning to achieve those goals, and the risks we're avoiding in a changing market. A heads up that this show will also be published on the on the market podcast feed over this New Year's break, And make sure to tune in next week for my annual State of Real Estate Investing Show and a huge announcement for the Bigger Pockets podcast you're not gonna wanna miss. With that, let's jump in. Kathy, Henry, how are you? Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you. Happy New Year. I am not gonna lie and pretend that we're recording this in the New Year. It's not really the New Year, but proactively to everyone, we're recording this in December. But happy New Year to all of you. Kathy, you have some great holiday plans. Tell everyone what you're up to. You're always somewhere fun. Well, yes. I'm in Paris recording this from a cave. You literally look like you're in, like, a medieval wide seller right now. I'm pretty sure I am. I'm in the oldest part of Paris. But I am here for the Christmas markets and mainly because my daughter is getting married in France. So I had to come see the venue with her. Had to. And then it's also You had to. I I had to. And it's the last year of the northern lights being, like, really intense. So we're gonna take a little trip up to the North Pole to the North Of Norway. Oh, that's so great. Wow. What a fun trip. Henry, what were you up to in the holidays? Food. Enough said. Really. Absolutely. I mean, I have little kids, so I do get to enjoy, like, the joy of Christmas still. So that's fun. But mostly, I'm eating my way through the holidays. Yeah. Good for you. Alright. Well, let's jump into the today's episode because I really wanna just start looking forward. Last year was a interesting I wouldn't call it a great year. I was gonna say it's a great year. I would not have called 2025 a great year. That would have been a straight up lie. But I am feeling optimistic going into 2026 and, just about real estate in general. So let's talk about this in terms of what our New Year's resolutions are. We'll start with real estate. But if you wanna throw a non real estate one in, I would love to hear them. But, Kathy, what's your real estate New Year's resolution? Well, I …