Home Prices Have Fallen 57 Months in a Row

There's still no sign of a housing market bottom, as continuing home foreclosures caused housing values to fall 3% in the first quarter of 2011 over the previous quarter, their biggest dive since late 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. "We expected December and January to be bad," said the chief economist of Zillow, the real estate tracking website that released the data today, but the declines for February and March were "really staggering." He predicts prices will fall another 7% to 9%, and the bottom won't come until 2012. Home prices have now fallen for 57 consecutive months. (More housing bubble stories.)