Chris Johnson - REALTOR Daytona Beach, Florida

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I heard a report this morning that new home construction has slowed for the 35th consecutive month. This is a record low since 1959. This has forced home builders nationwide to have scaled back employees, operations and many have file bankruptcy.

I heard another statistic that said if Americans do not build another residential property we would have enough property to house US population with future growth for the next 10 years.

For daytona beach, we can expect higher number of foreclosures and low median homes prices to come.

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Matt Woolsey, Forbes.com Feb 26th, 2009

The cities that are showing signs of stabilization and those that continue to unravel.

Wishing you'd left the game earlier is a time-honored Las Vegas tradition. Today, that's true not only for gamblers but for homeowners there. The last time Las Vegas properties were worth more than the average mortgage? August 2003.

Blame overbuilding and risky loans, a gambling mentality or even the desert sun, but based on Thursday's results from the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index, which measures metro home prices in 20 cities through December 2008, Las Vegas is the weakest market in the country. Prices are dropping quickly (down 4.81% since last month and 33% in the last year), the pace of decline is accelerating at the third-fastest rate in the nation, and based on lost equity, homeowners are out 65 months of mortgage payments.

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All signals that things aren't likely getting better any time soon.

"Vegas is a market unto its own," says Steve Cesinger, chief financial officer at Dewberry Capital, an Atlanta-based real estate investment firm. "I don't know what those guys were drinking when they thought all this building made sense. If it does work out soon, then there's some force out there in the universe that I'm not aware of."

The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index, released monthly, examines repeat home sales in 20 metro markets, including the city core and surrounding suburbs. This means that while prices in tony San Francisco neighborhood Pacific Heights might be holding up, the net effect of including a bankrupt suburb like Vallejo brings down the metro area's score. Each city's score is assigned based on the price difference from 2000, which is scored as 100. So San Francisco's score of 130.12 means prices are up 30.12% from 2000. It still has the potential for a further fall, given the 31% year-over-year drop.

Forbes also analyzed monthly declines and year-over-year declines in home prices to determine where prices were falling fastest and where those drops were picking up momentum. It's not a good thing for San Diego that prices from November 2008 to December 2008 fell 2.13%, but as prices declined by 2.29% from October to November, and 2.44% from September to October, the speed with which prices are falling is slowing.

That slowing rate of decline, also seen in places such as Denver, Washington, D.C., and Boston, helped rank those cities as some of the stronger markets in the country.

Contrast that with Minneapolis, where prices fell just 0.96% from September to October, but by December, the rate of month-to-month declines had jumped to 4.6%, an unwelcome acceleration.

Next, to rule out places in complete depression, we looked at how many months of equity homeowners have lost. Places like Detroit (-2.98%) and Cleveland (-2.07%) haven't declined as quickly over the last month as Seattle (-3.63%) or Charlotte (-2.55%), but that's because prices in those two Rust Belt cities are so depressed it's difficult for them to fall any further. Detroit and Cleveland homeowners have lost 141 and 92 months of equity, respectively, whereas Seattle and Charlotte prices have only declined for the last 39 and 33 months, respectively.

One other factor to consider with the Case-Shiller numbers is that the index tracks repeat home sales. That means cities like Tampa and Miami, which are notorious for overbuilt new inventory and high numbers of foreclosures, perform better on the index than they ought to, as those two factors are not tracked.

"Case-Shiller doesn't take into account new construction or foreclosure sales," says Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel, a Manhattan residential appraisal firm. "In some of these markets, I'm not sure how you can ignore new construction or foreclosures."

Another city with foreclosure and new construction problems is Phoenix, where bad loans have mounted and mortgage delinquencies, a forebearer of foreclosures, have risen.

"It's pretty gruesome," says Anthony Sanders, a finance professor at Arizona State University. He points to delinquencies as a major problem and a sign that the Valley of the Sun won't be bouncing back any time soon. In Phoenix, seriously delinquent loans--those that haven't been paid in 90 days--have increased from 3.5% to 27.3% for subprime loans since this time in 2005. Adjustable-rate mortgages that are seriously delinquent have gone from less than 1% to 20.2% in the same period.

With those problems looming on the horizon in many cities across the country, Obama might need more ammunition than his proposed $75 billion foreclosure prevention package offers.

Then again, even in a boom-bust capital like Los Angeles, if you bought in 2000, paid your mortgage on time and are still in your home, you've seen a 71.5% price appreciation. There's something to be said for that kind of responsible, long-term investor.