What do you see in your housing market this weekend? Reduced prices? How about builder incentives? "Know anyone in the market for a new home? If so, we have some great news for both of you. Now, when you refer someone to one of our neighborhoods and they purchase a home that closes by year end, not only will you get $5,000 at closing, but they will too!"

"Best of all, there's no catch. You don't even have to be a William Lyon homeowner to be eligible."

Or a repartment. "Developer Steven Samuels told the Boston Redevelopment Authority (he) will press ahead with the 215-unit project located at 1330 Boylston St. in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. The residential and office project will break ground next week, but Samuels said it may turn out to be an apartment project rather than condominiums."

"With financial backing from Samuel's partner, JP Morgan & Co., and a plan to pursue rental units rather than for-sale condominiums as a 'worse-case scenario' the said the project will move ahead."

From North Carolina. "Nearly a year after City Council approval, the $140 million tower is still in the design stage, none of the expensive condominiums needed to finance the project have been sold, and the groundbreaking originally scheduled this year has been pushed back to early 2007."

"'I heard this summer they'd be under way,' said Mayor Charles Meeker. 'There hasn't been any progress on the construction.'"

"According to a report recently released by an Alexandria, Va., commercial real estate research company, buyers are less motivated to buy condos now. Some factors that contributed to the slowdown include: Prices are no longer moving up with last year’s drama. Incentives are low relative to the cost of condos. Buyers fear prices may drop and they do not want to buy at the peak."

"As an incentive to get people to buy, The Chase, a condo conversion with units starting in the high $200,000s, this month began offering $5,000 toward closing costs on studios."