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The median home price in the U.S. has plunged nearly 40% in a little over five years, but the worst is definitely over, according to a recent report by Kiplinger: The market has finally wrung out the last excess valuations born of the housing bubble. Before you break out the party hats, note that this doesn\u2019t mean prices across the nation are poised to rebound anytime soon. Alex Villacorta, director of research and analytics at Clear Capital, a provider of real estate data and analytics, said the housing market is in a \u201csuspended state,\u201d with positive and negative factors offsetting one another. But he doesn\u2019t expect another free fall in prices, assuming \u201cthings are left to work themselves out and there are no further shocks to the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the percentage of sales of distressed homes will rise, the federal government\u2019s latest loan-modification program might allow as many as 1.5 million to two million homeowners to refinance, estimated Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody\u2019s Analytics. Zandi said that further home-price declines nationwide will be limited to 3 percent to 5 percent and that 2012 will be the year that prices finally stabilize\u2014setting the stage for gains in 2013.<\/p>\n

Short-lived spikes in prices will affect some cities sooner. When housing markets touch bottom and begin to stabilize, price appreciation tends to be spread unevenly, creating a lot of confusion about where the recovery is occurring and when, said David Stiff, chief economist at Fiserv Case-Shiller. Even within a single city, more desirable neighborhoods will stabilize first, while prices in other neighborhoods may fall at a rapid pace.<\/p>\n

Touching bottom<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the year ending September 30, home prices across the U.S. fell by 2.6 percent, and the median home price stood at $171,250, according to Clear Capital. That comes on the heels of a 2.5 percent decrease from September 2009 to September 2010. In the five-plus years since the peak of the market, home prices nationally fell by 38.1 percent. Detroit (down 74.7 percent) is the biggest loser, crushed by subprime lending, foreclosures and the gutted auto industry. A few cities enjoyed small price appreciation, largely because they missed the bubble to begin with: the Clarksville, Tenn., metro area; cities in upstate New York, including Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester; and Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Houses haven\u2019t been this affordable since appliances came in harvest gold or avocado green. The benchmark of affordability\u2014the ratio of median home price to median family income\u2014has fallen to 2.6, below the historical ratio of 2.9, says Stiff. Another measure, the percentage of monthly family income consumed by a mortgage payment (principal and interest, using a mortgage rate of 4.1 percent), is 12 percent nationally, the lowest since 1971.<\/p>\n

Homes in many cities are now substantially undervalued as measured by affordability, says Stiff, and that can lead to double-digit bounces in prices\u2014say, a jump of 10 percent to 15 percent in the year following the trough, as the natural optimists, especially investors with cash, jump in to catch the bottom. It might look like a bubble all over again, but it won\u2019t last long. A good example is Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., where investors pushed up prices by 12 percent during the year ended September 30. Such a bounce will be followed by a sideways drift, during which the \u201cglass half-empty\u201d folks will slowly return to the market.<\/p>\n

Theoretically, low rates should help push buyers to act. The average interest rate on 30-year fixed mortgages fell to 3.94 percent in the first week of October 2011, according to Freddie Mac. The past couple of years\u2019 predictions that rates would rise were based on the premise that the economy would improve, said Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance<\/em>, an industry publication. \u201cAs long as the economy remains stagnant, unemployment remains high, and the housing market is in the toilet, rates will remain near historic lows,\u201d he said. At least for the first part of 2012, he adds, rates should hover between 4 percent and 5 percent.<\/p>\n

Other positive signs: Existing home sales increased during the summer and early fall of 2011, according to the National Association of REALTORS\u00ae, after a deep slump following the expiration of the first-time home buyer tax credit. Although the inventory of homes on the market and in foreclosure remains high, a lull in home building over the past three years is gradually easing the surplus. The months\u2019 supply figure, or how long it would take to sell the inventory of homes on the market at the current pace of sales, improved to 8.5 months in September\u2014although that ratio still favors buyers (six months\u2019 supply represents a normal balance between sellers and buyers).<\/p>\n

The lure of affordability and low mortgage rates hasn\u2019t increased buyer demand as much as one might expect. Some would-be buyers can\u2019t get a mortgage, given lenders\u2019 stiffer requirements. Many more are hesitant to pull the trigger on a home purchase for fear that home prices will continue to fall or that their job prospects are uncertain. Although the recession has technically ended, the economy doesn\u2019t feel<\/em> better to many.<\/p>\n

But Celia Chen, director of research at Moody\u2019s Analytics, said that both corporate and household balance sheets are healthier and should lead to stronger economic growth and improved confidence. She anticipates more robust growth by the second half of 2012, assuming that Congress follows through on its debt-ceiling deal, the Fed keeps interest rates low, and there are no new shocks to the economy.<\/p>\n

The foreclosure problem<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dark cloud of foreclosures still hangs over the housing market. The pace of foreclosures has slowed as lenders, loan servicers and regulators have sorted out paperwork and pro\u00accedures in the wake of the robo-signing controversy that emerged a year ago.<\/p>\n

Nevada, California and Arizona\u2014among the epicenters of the boom and bust\u2014still suffer the highest rates of foreclosure. Georgia, Florida, Utah, Michigan, Idaho, Illinois and Colorado round out the top ten. Among metro areas, Las Vegas still tops the list.<\/p>\n

Currently, about 1.84 million home loans are 90 days or more delinquent (a strong predictor of foreclosure) but not yet foreclosed on, and 2.17 million have finished the foreclosure process but haven\u2019t yet been offered for sale, according to Lender Processing Serv\u00acices (LPS). What happens to home prices if and when they come to market? Villacorta, of Clear Capital, says that despite the downward pressure on prices by foreclosures, prices won\u2019t tank as long as lenders continue to bring additional foreclosures to market at a steady pace.<\/p>\n

Bank-owned foreclosures sell for an average discount of one-third off the per-square-foot price of conventional homes for sale. Buyers who want to snag a bargain on a distressed property will face competition from investors, and the biggest bargains may require a lot of work. Short sales, or homes sold with lenders\u2019 permission for less than their owners owe on their mortgages, have also grown in number. Lenders take an average of 16 weeks to sign off on a short sale, so patience is imperative.<\/p>\n

Of course, the longer lenders take to work through the foreclosure glut, the longer it will take for home-price appreciation to return to its normal pace of 2 percent to 4 percent a year. To hasten the process, the federal government may introduce more policy initiatives\u2014although whether they\u2019ll have any meaningful impact or come soon enough is debatable. In October, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, expanded the Home Affordable Refinance Program to allow more underwater borrowers to refinance out of their mortgages into more manageable loans. The FHFA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Treasury have called for ideas to handle the foreclosures they own, such as converting them to rental properties for purchase by investors.<\/p>\n

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