[quote=The-Shoveler] . . . There are probably few voluntarily listing who want to list in this environment for obvious reasons I would think.
(they are underwater and just can’t, or they have no place they can buy for what they can get for the current place they would want to move to…) . . . [/quote]
…or they aren’t going to give away their longtime “labor of love” at fire-sale prices … since they don’t HAVE to :=]
The non-institutional sellers in this market comprise three groups: the (distressed) “have-to-sell-or-get-foreclosed-on” group, the “senior-citizen-running-out-of-time” group (who likely made little to no costly improvements to their property over many years) and the “subsidized-relo” group (the smallest subset of current sellers whose new, distant employers will subsidize their “loss”).