Nobody here is a professional, and any "true" professional was just lucky at some point, or had enough money initially (far more than 50k) to take the slow route of safe investments (IE: S&P 500)
However, one thing I can tell you as a non-professional that nearly all professionals will say is.. do NOT take a blanket advice such as "wait for the housing market to crash". Time in the market will always be your best bet, and if there's a property you like now in a good area, buy it ASAP. It will ALWAYS grow past what it presently is, because there is not a surplus of land to build homes on. There shouldn't be a market crash in 2025; people having been using the argument of the housing market and interest rates starting 2019, then 2020, then 2021.. and so on. Homes continued to rise.
@Vortex for the record, the REASON there's a shortage currently in homes that are owned by people and not large corporations, is they're unwilling to let go of their 4-6% interest rate in favor of a 8-13% interest, which seems to be the new norm.