Home prices will fall in about half the markets in the US next year, a top housing economist said on Thursday. Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors (NAR), said he is forecasting 0% home-price growth in 2023. That means prices will increase in about half of the areas that NAR tracks, but decrease in the other half, Yun said. Yun, who was speaking to the National Association of Real Estate Editors conference in Atlanta, Georgia, said he predicts the home-price declines will be most dramatic in the most expensive parts of the country.