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

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.

It's not fair that prices have risen so quickly -- so rapidly -- because the product that is for sale was purchased (before the hurricane) at prices that were much lower by the companies. So there's some profiteering going on here,

Our buyers want the urban feeling and they want everything at their doorstep. Their homes are a retreat and they do a lot of socializing in the neighborhood.

You need to know what's for sale and what isn't. Allowing [ads and editorial content] to get blurred, however you do it, is in the long run inimical to a newspaper's reputation - and probably to its business.