On August 8th, Zillow released the results of a survey they commissioned of more than 100 “forecasters” in which they revealed their longer term projections. The consensus of these “experts” was that home prices would increase by 6.7% in 2013, year over year with increases at the following rates in future years: 4.4% in 2014 followed by 3.6%, 3.5% and 3.4% respectively in 2015, 2016 and 2017.