No. An outgoing administration can't engineer a bad handoff in its final stretch, and the reason is timing. Policy works with long lags. A change moves from proposal through legislation into law, and only then filters into the real economy months later. The pandemic-era stimulus is a clean example: the money went out, and it took roughly a year before it showed up meaningfully in inflation. Whatever gets done in the closing weeks of any administration simply doesn't hit the housing market on that timeframe. Over a short window like that, ordinary forces run the market: - Seasonality is the biggest. Late fall and the holidays are the natural slow season, and activity typically stays subdued until things wake back up in the back half of February. - Rates are the swing factor. A sharp move in either direction can shift the mood quickly. Absent one, the base case for a short handoff period is roughly status quo, carried by the calendar. We won't forecast a direction beyond that, because nobody can promise where prices or rates go. The useful reframe: stop watching the political calendar for housing signals and watch the two things that actually move your monthly cost, the rate environment and your local supply and demand. Those decide your outcome far more than who occupies the White House in any given month.