Buyers are lining up to buy a house before the holidays!

Admittedly, I'm drawing this conclusion from several disparate data points, but examine the facts...

• While shopping at Martins for half an hour this weekend I received 4 phone calls each related to a buyer (or their Realtor) wanting to view properties immediately.
• Tom was answering general phone inquiries for 2 hours this morning at our office, and received 3 calls from first time buyers who are itching to buy -- 2 of them are looking at properties later today.
• Web traffic so far this month (Nov 1 - 23) on our company and agent web sites has surpassed full month traffic numbers for July, August, September and October.

It will be interesting to review the market report numbers at the end of November and December to see whether all of this buyer excitement turns into closed real estate sales!