The temporary increase in prices has been driven by government efforts to prop up the housing market, Suttmeier says, and those measures have come to an end. A new wave of foreclosures is hitting the market. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become black holes into which taxpayers must shovel endless billions just to keep the mortgage engine running.Most importantly, as measured by the Case-Shiller index, housing prices are still way too high.
In most major house-price indexes, prices have already begun to roll over and head back down. Suttmeier thinks this trend will continue. In fact, he thinks prices could fall another 25% nationwide.
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U.S. Mortgage Holders Owing More Than Homes Are Worth Rise to 23% of Total. Bloomberg.
Bank repossessions in the U.S. rose 35 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier to a record 257,944, according to RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, California-based company.
Sales of foreclosed properties by banks accounted for more than a fifth of all U.S. home sales in March, Zillow said.
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