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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Prices were all over the place. 

One reason that (asking) prices are all over the place is that a good many 
people are still living in 2005.  Around here a LOT of real estate is for 
sale.  Many sellers have ridiculously high prices and the signs on those 
houses and parcels are nearly bleached out in the sun they've stood there so 
long.  They think it is still six or seven years ago, or else they have some 
notion that the old real estate market is somehow going to come back, that 
this 
is just a temporary downturn rather than a paradigm shift.

In my hollow and surrounding there has been a flurry of real estate 
transactions this spring.  When I am told the price, my jaw drops.  It is a 
small 
fraction of what the places were being offered for a few years ago. Half, and 
sometimes a third.

There's a big difference now in what prices are on real estate and what it 
is actually selling for.</HTML>