A Housing Market Crash Is Coming. Here's How to Prepare

How do we know that the meteoric rise in U.S. housing prices can't be sustained? Or it might be that prices will hit a tipping point, and home buyers anxious to save money by snagging a low rate will lose interest when sky-high prices eat up any possible savings. Again, nothing in real estate is guaranteed, but the Federal Reserve plans to keep the prime rate -- the rate at which banks loan money to one another -- low through 2022.