What do you see in your housing market this weekend? Motivated sellers? Builder incentives? One from the topics thread, "Is Colorado Bucking the Trend? I found this in the Rocky Mountain News in a story on abysmal home sales across the nation: 'A lot of the statistical information you’re going to see is coming from markets like Las Vegas and Phoenix that had such great run-ups and are now cooling off. The beauty of Denver is we never saw those kinds of run-ups. Denver has a tendency to be countercyclical to the rest of the country.'"

The Wall Street Journal. "Brian Michaud just picked up a little something for 40 percent off, a brand-new, two-bedroom condominium in Fish Creek, Wis., with a private elevator and harbor views. His method: He bought it at auction. Though the condo was new, its developer decided he wanted to sell quickly, so he put it on the block last month."

"In Denver, auctioneer Janelle Karas has gotten so many inquiries from builders and developers worried about mounting inventories that she recently changed her business model to specialize in them. In Gadsden, Ala., auctioneer Craig King says he handled 12 auctions of new homes in 2005, and this year he's on pace for about twice that number."

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From New Jersey. "Builder Charles Panahi, like many builders and Realtors, sees the signs of a weakening market in North Jersey and beyond. Jeff Zilahy, an agent in Hoboken, says the numerous condo buildings sprouting up along the Gold Coast are adding to the supply of available dwellings and making it difficult to find enough buyers."

"And Realtors are competing for fewer deals, he said. He left teaching in 2004, near the peak of the housing boom, to become a Realtor. 'I got into real estate to make money,' Zilahy said. 'Now, ironically, I'm going back to teaching.'"