7 Stocks to Sell Before the 2022 Housing Market Crash While no guarantees of a housing market crash exist, investors may need to start considering sector-related stocks to sell. Primarily, it’s no longer amateur doom-and-gloom luminaries broadcasting bearishness. Instead, the National Association of Realtors confirmed what the National Association of Home Builders admitted : residential real estate has entered a recession . Per a CNBC report, home sales slipped 6% sequentially from June to July. Further, sales dropped about 20% from the same period one year earlier. However, not everyone has their hair on fire regarding real estate-related stocks to sell. “In terms of economic impact we are surely in a housing recession because builders are not building,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors. “However, are homeowners in a recession? Absolutely not. Homeowners are still very comfortable financially.” Admittedly, I’m not sure what Yun is getting at. Ultimately, the labor market determines whether homeowners will succumb to a recession.