Patience

Sellers must be patient people these days. We're back to a more moderate market, where buyer activity tends to kick over a period of weeks, rather than a period of hours. This means that sellers have to be very practical about how they deal with having their house on the market. Pottery Barn staging for a week has given way to figuring out strategies for keeping a house liveable but tidy over a period of months. Showings are now spread out over a longer period and may come at unexpected times, so that it's important to keep the house in good shape and be flexible about making it available for showings. There are still plenty of sellers and buyers out in the marketplace; they're just taking things a lot slower.