Competition.  If you are a seller in this market… and for the last several years… you have been in competition.  If you weren’t… your competitors were, and you can’t win the race if you weren’t running.

If you are a buyer in this market, you have still been in competition.  Same story as above.  And while there is a LOT of inventory (less than the last couple of years, but still a lot), the deals aren’t on every corner.  You have to grab them when they pop up…

The bottom line is that opportunities are out there for both buyers and sellers, but they aren’t so plentiful as to be squandered.

I wrote a post last year about this very thing… Drop in and take a look.