Buyers who had been on the fence in recent months have gotten serious.

For the last few years, buyers often outnumbered the supply of homes for sale, allowing prices to escalate rapidly, but that's no longer the case.

Buyers were faced with higher mortgage rates, increased inventory levels, and bold predictions of major price corrections last fall, prompting many to postpone their home search until after the first of the year.

We have had serious disagreement in recent months, ... I am not going to paper over it and pretend it didn't occur. It did occur and we will work our way through that.

We've had discussions over the recent weeks and months.

In the past six months, we've gotten a much larger piece of a much smaller pie.