HomeGain just released its 3rd quarter National Home Survey, indicating that consumers have an increasingly bleak outlook of the US real estate market. Agents and brokers aren’t hopeful, either, though a few are feeling more positive than the last quarter. As opposed to the 50 percent of real estate practitioners that expected value downturns last quarter, 47 percent of real estate practitioners now expect home values to go down in the upcoming six months. Of the 2200 homeowners surveyed, 45 percent agree with that dismal outlook. In Q2 only 30 percent of consumers thought prices would decrease.