From: "Jeff Strickland" 
Newsgroups: alt.invest.real-estate.methods alt.org.natl-assn-mortgage-brokers alt.real-estate alt.real-estate-agents alt.realestate.business alt.realestate.fsob
Subject: Re: How to prove a buyer's market?
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:29:44 -0800
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Well, you could gather data on Time on Market, Slowing of Price Increases, 
that sort of thing. Rises in the time on market or slowing of price changes 
indicate that sales are slow, and this is by definition a Buyer's Market.

Data Quest -- out of La Jolla (San Diego) -- tracks this sort of stuff ...



"Keter Pardes"  wrote in message 
news:UXBqf.20429$eF1.16572@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
> Looking for more contingencies is a way to prove to a seller it's a 
> buyer's
> market now. What other ways can you PROVE there's a slowdown?
>
> -- 
> All the best,
>
> Keter Pardes