We will get back to a normal market when people buy a home to live in it, not invest in it.

Ed Leamer, head of UCLA's Anderson Forecast, in an article in the LA Times. Leamer, who has had an excellent record forecasting economic trends, expects home prices across the board in Southern California to continue declining through 2009.

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