"I sat at lunch near a couple of real estate professionals talking shop. Both of them lamented the unusual funk that the market is having, how little they'd been hearing from other agents closing sales, and of reluctant buyers."

This from an anonymous poster, via e-mail to VREAA, 20 May 2010 -

“I sat at lunch near a couple of real estate professionals talking shop. Both of them lamented at length about the unusual funk that the market is having, how little they have been hearing from other agents closing sales, and of reluctant buyers.  Much of their frustration seemed directed at the media coverage of the housing market, and that this was souring the mood of prospective housing buyers. The projection of their frustrations I found pretty telling of how quickly things are cooling off.”