If you're a cash buyer and considering upgrading, it might be your chance soon. It's hard to make this work perfectly within life circumstances of course, but

If you're a cash buyer and considering upgrading, it might be your chance soon. It's hard to make this work perfectly within life circumstances of course, but the ideal timing is to upgrade when the sticker price drops, and downgrade when it's high. Mortgage buyers are usually doing the opposite, since they're the reason the prices are moving in whichever direction in the first place. We've still got a way to go to shave off the bloat of the past several years (my home value has gone up 50% since I bought it 4 years ago), but I planned on giving the market a good look in a year or so. A casual glance at Zillow in my area already shows several times the listings count from this time last year. So, it's definitely happening right now.