“Complicated” is the way Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist for BrightMLS – the region’s multiple-listing service – describes the current condition of the local real-estate market.
“The shift in the marketplace accelerated in September,” she noted in parsing September sales figures...
The real-estate industry’s equivalent of the “f-word” – “falling,” as in “falling prices” – is beginning to be used across the nation even by some who earlier felt that the homes market would withstand economic pressures without seeing declines...