Seeing ahead in 2009

What can home buyers and sellers expect? Experts say foreclosures, economic woes make predictions dicey.

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By Scott Van Voorhis

Globe Correspondent / January 4, 2009

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Karl Case made a reputation as a distinguished housing sage with prescient calls on the real estate market. A Wellesley College economist whose name is on the most widely followed barometer of the housing market, the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index, Case was early to call the last housing boom a bubble destined to burst. (Full article: 1001 words)