Discover the difference between the current level of a home price index and its baseline trend level. The baseline trend is derived by extrapolating the average rate of index growth before 2000, the year when prices in many real estate markets began appreciating at unprecedented and unsustainable levels. Gap measures the percentage difference between a current index level and its corresponding baseline level.

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