There are certainly major economic and demographic challenges at play right now, but a market correction is not a crash, being more like a slow leak in an over-pressurized tire than a blowout on the highway at high speed.      

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Stock market declines, though substantial, cannot compare with those seen in 2008-2009, and employment remains very strong. This is not to minimize the correction the market is going through.      

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The next major indicator of buyer and seller psychology and market dynamics will be what occurs during the next 2 months of the autumn selling season, prior to the mid-November to mid-January holiday slowdown, typically the slowest market of the year.      

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As of early September, interest rates have increased again and stock markets declined once continue to see substantial short-term volatility and it remains difficult to confidently predict their future movements and effects on real estate markets.      

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According to some agents, buyer interest has begun to rekindle with the decline in competition, increase in inventory, and economic changes mentioned above, but if this is part of a broader recovery in demand, it has not yet shown up in the statistics – which are lagging indicators of what’s occurring on the ground right …

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As of early August, the average, weekly mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed rate loan fell below 5% for the first time since April, and stock markets have seen large rebounds since early July – but these and other indicators have been subject to sudden and often dramatic volatility, and their future directions can’t be …

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An overheated market cooling or normalizing, slowing from an unsustainable rate of acceleration, does not necessarily imply a weak market by historical standards, even if the speed and scale of the change is startling.      

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Outside the 2008 crash, market corrections over the last 4 decades typically ran from a simple flattening in appreciation, to price adjustments of 5% to 10% (relatively small compared to the appreciation rates which preceded them). It is far too early, with far too many factors at play, to make predictions.      

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Market changes are often very uneven in the early months of a transition, with one home selling in days at over 25% over list price, while next door, the seller has to reduce their price to get an offer. Not every home will sell.    

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As of late Spring, across the Bay Area, less expensive home sales have been considerably impacted by rising interest rates. Sales of higher price homes have held up much better – Lamorinda is a very affluent market – but cooling demand is beginning to show up in pending sale data.      

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