the last paragraph is a killer.....please dont sell
this is a Florida story............
Because of a rising number of mortgage delinquencies more homes are being dumped onto an already glutted market. RealtyTrac reported that foreclosures surged by 47 percent in March compared to a year ago.
Meanwhile, the glut of unsold homes depressed prices further with the median dropping for a record eighth straight month nationally to $217,000 in March, down 0.3 percent.
Home inventories also are the biggest bugaboo hanging over Southwest Florida, too, but there are signs of a plateau.
For example, there were 8,376 single-family homes listed for sale in Sarasota as of April 15, according to a database maintained by Team DuToit at Keller-Williams Realty. That was a slight drop from the 8,411 homes listed for sale a month earlier.
The result is that Sarasota's Multiple Listing Service has been left with a 110-week supply of homes at the current sales rate compared with a 131-week supply a month ago.
That is still historically high -- the kind of figure that makes for odd requests: "I'd like to make an appeal to everybody who does not need to sell to take your home off the market," said Marianne Zoll of the Re/Max 5 Star/Zoll Real Estate & Auction Team.
here's the link to the whole story
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/BUSINESS/704250309