If home prices decline by 25%--less than the worst areas in the 1990 downturn--it will mean 10 million homes with less value than the principal remaining on their mortgages, according to Alliance Bernstein. In California it took nearly five years for real estate to bottom in the 1990s. That being the case, we may be looking at 2010 for the trough. (c)



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