2012-08-09bloomberg.com

"The turnaround in home prices feels pretty broad," Celia Chen, a housing economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said yesterday. "But I think there are still risks that home prices will dip a little more before they start appreciating with any consistency,"

One threat to home values is the so-called shadow inventory of delinquent properties that have yet to enter the market. U.S. foreclosure starts rose 6 percent last month from July 2011, Irvine, California-based data provider RealtyTrac Inc. said today.



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