Meh. You’re fighting the last war, dude. The time to scream “peak housing” and “houses will crash” was in 2006-2007. At the time, housing was treated as a growth asset, there was plenty of new construction, turnover of existing homes was high, lots of rate-sensitive leverage in the system due to ARMs etc and finally rate of home ownership was high. At the moment, RE is the only true inflation protected asset, rents are high as fuck, supply is limited, most mortgages are fixed rate, turnover is small and there is pent up demand from millennials.
Some WFH real estate will get softer because of RTO, though these areas are probably already down. Broadly, it’s gonna be about employment - if we see high unemployment, we gonna see housing softer.
My point is - I’ll take the other side of your bet. Given that both HPI and CS index have volatility of roughly 7% annualized, my bet would be “is hosing index for July 2025 more that 14% (ie “crash”) lower than level for July 2024?”