Vacant Homes in U.K. Prove Speculator Nightmare as Losses Mount

``The unraveling buy-to-rent investment market contributed to a 2.5 percent drop in home prices last month, the biggest since 1992, a report by mortgage lender HBOS Plc shows. Britain is among the countries most likely to follow the U.S. into a housing slump, according to the International Monetary Fund. Prices may drop 10 percent this year and next, said Michael Saunders, a London-based economist at Citigroup Inc.'' -- What goes up still must come down... that much has not changed, uh, ever.