Home Sales Expected to Increase Nicely in 2017. The experts are telling us that 2017 will be a good year. We certainly hope that the trend for Increased home sales and new opportunities to increase personal and family wealth continue. What, in my opinion, is likely to happen is an increase in interest rates. The combination of higher prices and increased interest cost means either increasing the amount of money down or look at higher monthly payments or buying less house. Take a look at how they see 2017