Quack! I live in the same area and fully expect prices to fall at least another $100,000 in the areas you described within the next 12- 24 months. And I might add, I havent been wrong about the direction of prices or the magnitude of the change in the last 5 years. Quack!
The market is only getting better in those areas because sellers are allowing the prices to float with the market (downward) and agents that formerly had huge market share and tried to keep prices up failed miserably. Many sellers wised up and are now using agents that understand how to get things done!
