美国房市遭受税收信用打击

　　根据报告，受买房者的税收信用降低的临时刺激，自2009年第一季起，美国房市就是逐季下跌的。

Home values in the U.S.posted their largest quarterly decline since the first quarter of 2009,falling 2.6 percent as the temporary stimulus of the Home Buyer Tax Credits wore off,according to a new report.

Zillow's fourth-quarter report on the real estate market found it declined 5.9 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $175,200.Home values have fallen 27 percent since they peaked in June 2006.

Accelerating home value declines,as well as a slowdown in the nation's foreclosure rate following the late-2010 robo-signing controversy,contributed to an increase in negative equity.At the end of the fourth quarter,27 percent of single-family homeowners with mortgages owed more on their mortgage than their homes were worth,up from 23.2 percent in the third quarter. 

With the end of the homebuyer tax credits in mid-2010,home value declines accelerated toward the end of the year.When they were in effect,the credits tempered home values declines–nationally,home values fell only 0.9 percent from the first to the second quarter of 2010 – but values resumed their decline after the credits'expiration,falling 2.6 percent from the third to the fourth quarter.

"While the tax credits did not hurt the housing market,they did delay its bottom by interrupting the housing correction that was taking place,"said Zillow chief economist Dr.Stan Humphries in a statement."Home value trends in the fourth quarter remained grim,but the good news is that these declines,while painful in the short-term,mean we're getting closer to the bottom.The housing recession is likely in its death throes,and we expect to see sales pick up in early 2011.That will lead the way to home values stabilizing and an eventual bottom later this year,although it will take several months of increased sales activity before values begin to respond."