For the most part, stock market investors, are aware of and accept the risk that prices will fall from time to time, many people who purchase a home do not believe that the value of their home will fall soon.
However, unlike the stock market, where investors can develop a strategy to protect themselves in a bear market (like the one we've seen in the last few months of 2022) through swing trading, there's no easy insurance against falls in housing market prices.
Whether you're a homeowner or a buyer, the prospect of a housing market collapse is scary. The last thing you want is to own a massive, inflated asset while the economy is collapsing.
If one of the trends in the housing market is year on year, consistent real estate price increases, it indicates the possibility of an impending crash or at a minimum, a more benign correction.