The Sacramento Bee has this report on a rush for the exits. "When seven homes on one street are up for sale on a half-mile stretch of Aubergine Way, you get the idea a lot of area sellers want to collect on their investment. On another street nearby are three more homes for sale. Aubergine reflects an astonishing 600 percent growth in homes for sale this past year inside its ZIP code, 95655."

"'I think it's because of the fact that we have so much equity in this community,' added Tiffany Lunnie, a real estate agent who lives on Aubergine Way. Even as prices have cooled and remain below their late 2005 peaks, Lunnie said many of those selling are people like her."

"This street, with its views of broad swaths of empty grasslands and air freight carriers landing at Mather Field, also clearly reveals the region's utterly changed post-boom real estate market: 10,316 existing homes in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties were for sale in March compared with 3,799 a year ago."

"Buyers have gained power to deal amid one of the largest inventories of existing homes for sale in the four-county Sacramento region in a decade. In all three Mather-area ZIP codes, sidewalk conversations and calls to agents listed on For Sale signs reveal countless stories of investors trying to cash out."

"Dianne Slutsky, too, is selling a house she bought years ago with a San Ramon couple. 'It was bought mostly with the intention of long-term appreciation, which we've gotten,' said Slutsky, a real estate agent. So on the market it's gone, After 50 days Slutsky's three-bedroom house awaits the right offer."

"So far, the 'For Sale' signs are increasing at a greater rate than the 'Sold' signs in a capital region where only a year ago sellers thought 'waiting a week was forever,' as Lunnie on Aubergine Way recalled."