Changes in Attitudes
The housing depression's long slog has taken its toll on home shoppers, leaving them with little hope that economic conditions will improve soon. Yet they keep searching for a home where they can hole up away from the world with family. Increasingly, their search for that house lasts longer as they sort through the distressed home options as well as new homes. The disappointments with used homes has left them prepared to buy a new home, providing sales agents can talk them off the fence.