Elizabeth Weintraub, on About.com predicts that banks will begin renting homes.

However, you can also predict it based on your sense of the absorption of the market.

The economists claimed they can predict an impending recession a few quarters in advance with high probability. 

And because of this, that study might be completely irrelevant to these wise investors and will not predict their outcome in any way, but the findings of the study might be relevant to their neighbors. 

investors on this site have been predicting this for about 4 years now.   

New York City, where you are from, was more mild.A great way to predict a future real estate crash is to see an uptick in defaulted mortgages. 

Its hard to predict.

I read mortgage rate predictions for end of this year and next year and it goes into the 6 percent range.

If you can accurately predict it - let us know as many may want to change strategies.What will be more impactful (in terms of waiting) and a more predictable occurrence affecting your decision is rising interest rates. 

Nobody can predict if prices will go up or the other houses will affect your selling price but at least you won't be at the mercy of a dishonest contractor with sky-rocketing costs and/or poor workmanship.