Our national real estate cheerleader at NAR, Lawrence Yun, has published his mid-year forecast. His original forecast for the 2025 Median Home Price was 2% originally, so his downgrade has cut it in half.

I don’t mind him having a revision, but doesn’t his 2026 sound wildly optimistic? He provided no substantiation or research data to back up his guesses.

The 2025 Price Forecasts are here:

https://www.bubbleinfo.com/2024/12/04/2025-price-forecasts/

Here’s what I said:

Here’s how it’s turning out:

In December, I guessed +5% and there was only +3% in NSDCC appreciation in the first quarter of 2025. My ‘flatsville’ call for the rest of the year is looking pretty good though, and might be optimistic!