I agree that there are ALOT of agents pushing that BS line about a temporary dip.
However I will say that right now I definitely have way more buyers then I have ever had. Many of them are looking passively with an eye out for an extra good deal moreso then anything else. Still there are a good deal of them who are quite serious with aspirations to buy in the next 6 months.
The common thread though is that all of them are absolutely aware of my own feelings of the market not hitting bottom for quite awhile. While that may be puzzling to alot of people, including me, it is the way it is.
So I am not convinced by the line that, oh the majority of buyers are in falling for the Pollyanna Realtors view. Again, not that the majority of realtors do not do that, but just based on my own anecdotal experiences with all of my leads.
If anything they are more frustrated by the lack of quality inventory then anything else.