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December 30, 2008

Index Likely to Show Further Fallout From Burst Bubble

A report on home prices out Tuesday is likely to give the incoming Obama administration ammunition to push for additional relief for the housing sector.

The S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices is expected to reflect the continuing toll exacted by the deflating housing bubble. Plunging home prices and foreclosures were followed by tight credit, soaring unemployment and tumbling exports in contributing to the year-old U.S. recession. Sinking home values are straining the balance sheets of banks that hold mortgages or mortgage-related assets. Credit markets and the overall economy are unlikely to recover fully until home prices hit bottom.

In the most recent report, for September, the Case-Shiller 20-city composite home-price index fell 17.4% from a year earlier and 1.8% from the previous month. The index, which measures prices of single-family homes in 20 metropolitan areas, is based on a three-month moving average.

"We've had to repeatedly move our price forecast down and down," said Abiel Reinhart of J.P. Morgan Chase. "There's no sign yet of home prices leveling off or even the rate of decline decelerating." J.P. Morgan estimates that the October year-over-year drop will be 18.2% and the monthly decline from September will be 2.2%.

A report last week on home prices by the Federal Housing Finance Agency cut a gloomy swath for the Case-Shiller data. The FHFA said October home prices nationwide were down 7.5% from a year earlier and 1.1% from September. The Case-Shiller index includes homes financed by a broader range of mortgages than the FHFA measure, which is based only on homes financed through government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Though recent steps by the Federal Reserve -- such as expanding lending and lowering its interest-rate target to near zero -- have spurred refinancing, those steps alone can't solve the housing crisis or turn around the economy, said Brian Bethune, an economist at IHS Global Insight. "The economy is in this contractionary funk and it really is going to take a strong fiscal stimulus to snap it out of that."

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