Gary Painter, associate professor and director of research at USC's Lusk Center for Real Estate, said home prices should stay relatively flat this year...
"Once people are more confident about the job market, people who may have been delaying putting their house on the market will feel like it's a better time to do so," he said. "Economists are predicting that the recovery will continue, which is good news . . . It's just a matter of the speed of recovery."
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