What do you see in your housing market this weekend? A new home sale? "This is your LAST CHANCE to get a new Centex inventory home at a drastically reduced price. If you’ve been waiting to buy, NOW’S THE TIME!"

Or lower prices? "Residential home sales have fallen 22.6 percent in the period of Jan. 1 through June 30 of this year, said Kirk Goehring, senior VP at First South Bank in Jackson, Tennessee; the number of homes on the market during that same time period stood at 185, and a 37 percent increase over the 135 homes on the market in 2005."

"Market saturation has caused some home prices to be reduced, said Gerry Neese, a 22-year veteran of the Jackson real estate market. 'You can go through the MLS and see a lot of prices that have been reduced,' he said. 'We are having to adjust prices back to get houses to move.'"

A related market effect? "Sellers are eager to make deals, and buyers are in control, but there's nary a real estate sign in sight. Welcome to the new and used vehicle market, where many Northern San Joaquin Valley dealers are experiencing the same slowdown seen in housing."

"What happens in auto sales often follows housing markets, dealers said...because fewer people can refinance their home loans and use the money to buy a car or truck. 'That was driving the market,' said David Hillier, who owns Hillier Ford in Escalon. 'The best way to describe what's happening now is like the real estate people say: It's going back to normal.'"

A housing bubble reflection? "Even Robert Toll admits there are troubles in the U.S. housing market. He spoke to CNN's Maggie Lake. Maggie Lake: 'Should we have seen this slump coming? Should we have been better at spotting it?'"

"Robert Toll: 'I don't see how we could have done better. The news talked about the bubble while we were still roaring as a market. So there were plenty of warnings that we were entering trepidatious times.'"

"Maggie: You only know after it happens. Toll: It's hard. You should feel it, but what would you do? You say I'm raising my prices 5, 10 thousand dollars every other week -- I better quit? Shareholders might have a problem with that."

"Maggie: What do you worry about most as CEO of Toll Brothers? Toll: The macro economic scene has bothered me, this time around more than anything else. God forbid we have a recession, a bad economy on top of a bad housing market, then we are in for trouble.'"

"Maggie: What do you see happening? Toll: 'I'm sorry to say the future is that you will see a rebound that will come back with a vengeance and the prices will chase up even faster than they have in the past.'"

"'I think what you will see when the market straightens itself out, as it always does, you will see a resurgence so that we begin to pay for our homes proportionately to what they are paying in Britain or Western Europe, which is 45 even 50 percent of their incomes for their housing.'"