yipla trying to time any market to get things done is challenging but of course can be done in a more macro sense. Even short term real estate trends take awhile to form. Seller psychology is the problem because most of them do not act in a dynamic manner. Thus factors such as inventory growth and slower sales statistics for a few months are generally lost on sellers. Most of them will ignore those factors and price the home according to the previous years conditions/pricing models. The result is they don’t learn for a few months, and by that time they generally decide to relist the following spring or make a more inconsequential reduction. Statistically the highest number of sales (closings of escrow) occurs in March, April, May and June. Meaning most homes go into escrow a month before those listed. Now the best selections of homes available is usually late Feb – May. So does that mean that you get a better deal in November than August? Maybe but maybe not. It may be a better price but on a less desirable house. It is hard to qualify the statement. Furthermore the most ignored factor but the one that is way more important is financing. So to answer you there is not any more appreciable activity in fall then July but the dependencies of the submarket you are looking at, the financing environment, and the overall established trend of the market are way more important. Right now the market in San Diego has been slowing for several months from a closed sales perspective. We have seen inventory growth but sellers have not yet capitulated at all. Lets see what happens in 6 months.