Have Housing Prices Bottomed? News Reports Across the Web Say 'Yes', But..... Speculation about the bottom of our housing crisis has been debated for many months now, and almost every day a report that either supports a bottoming of the market, or attempts to debunk it comes across the news wires. But these reports, that use all kinds of technical data that can be viewed in many different facets, ignore a few common sense aspects of a possible bottom of the housing crisis and what it means to buyers. First, housing prices and sales, as any competent real estate professional can tell you, is localized. What is happening in the California real estate market can be extremely different than, say, the Florida or New York real estate markets, or the Oregon or Colorado real estate markets. And... 04/25/2012