What do you see in your housing market this weekend? Here's one from Louisiana. "'Homeowners are looking across the street and saying, 'Well if they got that much for their house, I'm going to sell mine too,' said real estate agent Larry Haik in Slidell. 'But what they don't realize is that there are so many houses on the market that it's turning into a buyers’ market…. Housing prices are coming down, but the average Joe doesn't know about it.'"

"'"It's getting scary,' he said about the real estate market in Slidell. 'There's a nationwide slump in home sales, but it's worse here.'"

From Canada. "In Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, more reasonable sales volumes and moderate price appreciation suggests the market is gradually working its way back to more normal historical levels. 'Gone is the sellers' market that we have lived in for some years,' said Phil Soper, CEO of Royal LePage Real Estate Services."

"Rapid appreciation in Calgary’s housing market is scaring away some buyers, says a report. 'We are now beginning to see a shift in the purchasing pace. We are seeing that buyers have become reluctant to get involved in the frenzy that has typified the city’s market up until now,' said broker Ted Zaharko."

"Zaharko said many buyers, and some sellers, are no longer willing to take part in the chaos of Calgary’s housing market."

"Canadian economists are postulating that we're in a housing boom with much time to go on. But some fear it's becoming a bubble. In a conversation the other night, a single mother of teenagers told me she's considering investing her entire pension fund, probably the most money she'll ever see in her lifetime, in property."

"She's bought into the current mantra that buying residential property realizes greater returns with no risk attached because everyone says there's no end to this boom."

The Royal Gazette. "A leading realtor yesterday said she had not seen so many homes available on the Bermuda housing market in ten years as there are now. Susan Thompson has noted a 'glut' of condos available which has even persuaded some developers to drop their prices. It was not that people could not afford available properties, Ms Thompson said, rather it was a case of people waiting for a downward move in the market."

"'The inventory is the highest I have seen in ten years and a good two-thirds of what is available is in the condominium sector,' Ms Thompson said. 'There is a large glut of condos at this time and we have seen developers put their condos on the market at one price and a few months later, drop that price."

The Times Herald from California. "During the current Bay Area real estate market slowdown, any edge a Realtor can find, could mean the difference between success and struggle, said Paul Winders. Winders said he was there looking at 'what new technology I could use to differentiate myself from the others' in this less-than-perfect real estate market."

"The current slow market is expected to last at least a couple of years, Winders said. 'There will be a lot of foreclosures and short sales,' he said."

"A short sale is when the seller owes more on his home than the home is worth and the lender agrees to accept a payoff amount of less than what's owed on the home. In an increasingly competitive buyers' market like Solano County, anything that helps attract a dwindling client pool is welcome, Winders said."