The galloping real estate market is a scary and exhilarating thing.
On the one hand, as home prices soar, how on earth will you ever buy one? On the other, assuming you do pull off the biggest purchase of your life and become a proud homeowner, those very same rising prices are a promise that one day you, too, will make bank.
And that’s exactly why savvy buyers and owners obsess about how much their home will be worth in a few years—and why.
