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A housing market crash happens when home values plummet due to a lack of demand for or an oversupply of homes.
The factors leading to a housing market crash are varied, ranging from economic recessions to high mortgage rates that make it less affordable to buy a home.
A housing crash can have upsides (low home prices) and downsides (losing built-up equity and tighter finances).So,what's ahead for the housing market in 2026? Read more:Want to buy a house in 2026? Here's what you need to know.
Despite 58% of Gen Z wanting a housing market crash, according toClever,experts don't foresee one in 2026.
If anything, they see a greater sense of normalcy following multiple years of twists and turns.
"We're not heading toward a housing crash; we're in a market correction defined by stability, not volatility," Hoby Hanna, CEO of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, said via email.
"Today's housing environment is fundamentally different from 2008.
Homeowners have record levels of equity, lending standards are sound, and inventory remains constrained.
What we're seeing now is a normalization, not a collapse, as the market adjusts to new economic realities.
For buyers and sellers, this is a market filled with opportunity and resilience, not instability or uncertainty." Read more:Understanding housing inventory and how it shapes the real estate market It could be difficult to consider 2026 as a "market filled with opportunity" when the economy lost 966,000 job openings last year.
According to the May Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), the number of job openings and hires were unchanged at 7.6 million and 5.2 million, respectively, while total separations were little changed at 5.1 million.
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