By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer July 26 2006: 5:25 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After years of local home markets getting more and more overvalued, the trend has reversed, according to an analyis published this week.
Each quarter, Local Market Monitor, which provides research to the real estate industry, assesses 100 markets, comparing selling prices to "equilibrium" values. Company president Ingo Winzer bases those values on local economic and population growth, construction costs, vacancy rates, household income in the area and interest rates.
The number of overpriced markets in the first quarter, defined as having a median home price more than 15 percent higher than equilibrium, fell by two to 38. In the prior quarter, the number of overvalued markets had climbed to 40 from 37.
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