High-end housing starting to fall

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1. I’ve been through three booms and three busts around here, and and it’s been my observation since the latest began that it won’t bottom out until 2012(pig era). It seems I have some support in that:

   Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff has warned that house prices in Britain and the United States are likely to keep falling for another two years.

   “I don’t think we get strengthening in the housing market until late 2011 or 2012,” said Mark Vitner, senior economist for Wachovia, the nation’s fourth largest bank and one that this month hired the number-two man from the Treasury Department as its new chief executive officer to shore up its own growing exposure to mortgage debt.

   Before bottoming out, prices nationwide should fall 22 percent to 29 percent on average from their peak, according to a report that Wachovia released last Monday.

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