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Over the last 10 years, we've seen a fairly significant core of the population spending more than half the value of their home on improvements. Some of that is because buyers increasingly are moving into older suburbs convenient to their jobs in the city, and they're renovating smaller Cape Cod and ranch-style homes.

Most of these deals work because of cheap money. Money is getting more expensive. The potential buyers will be more cautious. They are reworking their numbers to see if they can get a return.

Larger hubs of buyers and sellers combined together make it easier for them to find one another.

supply and demand price for oil stands at around $27, so $5 to $6 (of the current price) is pure speculation. There is no demand for oil at these prices, buyers are sitting and hoping oil prices will fall, but prices could shoot up if there is a panic. There is real concern heating oil could run out.

J. C. Watts

I think people knew that luxury buyers wanted something with more room and they wouldn't be happy with a minivan,

Regardless of the cost of these high tech gadgets there would always be buyers just because they are serious in their chosen sport. Who knows, maybe in the future, someone would create a jogging suit that has a built-in computer.

We're seeing healthy volume. We're seeing the buyers enter in the morning and pretty much stay with it through the close.

Mike Dooley

We're seeing buyers coming in and making very low offers. That's just evidence of the pendulum swing.

Tokyo shares followed the Nasdaq today. Also, trading was supported by those buyers who came back to the market now that Y2K-related concerns seem to have cleared.

Today's earnings reports obviously didn't sit well, and buyers reacted as if the light at the end of the tunnel is getting further away instead of closer.

We have a lot of work to do to convince Japanese buyers to come back to us.

We can't hit every piece of property right on the nose. It's mass appraisal. If you had the same home with three different buyers and three different sellers, you could conceivably come up with three different prices.

We have the same number of buyers as last year.

Pierre Omidyar

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

Which is why they're in the large venues like the Ryerson and the Elgin. The press screenings are actually happening after their world premiere so the key press, the key buyers are in those public screenings and that is important.

We came in today a lot more sober with buyers at the sidelines for the most part.

Most of the buyers of luxury homes in Humboldt County are local.

Most investors were expecting a correction this morning after sharp gains in the past few days but when they saw that there wasn't much selling pressure, buyers came back and pushed up the market.

We'll get more buyers with yields around these levels. People won't want to call the end to the Fed rate cycle too quickly though, so I doubt we'll get a big rally.

Bill Porter

While you can sell a hot car designed for younger buyers to an old guy, you can't sell a stodgy old car to a young guy.

Robert Irwin

Remember, many buyers will probably come back at night for another look at your property. Therefore, relighting the back yard can be considered a necessity.

All of those buyers are looking to the West Coast. East Coast demand could make prices here go up, but you've got to understand that we've never experienced anything so devastating. It's hard to know how the market is going to react.

The market is extremely strong in the resale market. Most of the buyers in resale market are coming from Midwest and elsewhere.

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

An element of it is investment driven but our research has found that most of it is from incredibly wealthy people who have done their homework and have become incredibly sophisticated buyers in a short space of time.

Anything goes this week. You had a great week last week and it shows there were buyers willing to come in just on the thought of stabilization.

After a period of uncertainty in the property market, investors are choosing now as the right time to buy, as the prospects for capital growth are good. There is still a strong and healthy rental market as first-time buyers struggle to get on to the ladder.

End-user concerns about availability and value of these new technologies could result in some buyers holding off PC purchases until later in 2006 or beyond.

There's a feeling that oil prices will work higher still. The U.S. is more dependent on foreign imports than it has been in a while, and with oil prices on the rise, buyers moved quickly into oil stocks and energy related stocks,

Selection of a CRM vendor is a marriage, not a date. Enterprise buyers must think carefully about the vendor partner they choose and understand the long-term commitment of these decisions.

Really, I expect the light volume to probably last until the Fed stops raising interest rates, and that will kind of depend on the economic outlook that we see, in terms of how much growth we have at the end of this interest-rate cycle. It really tells me that there is a lack of conviction from the buyers and a lack of conviction from the sellers, ... And it's somewhat psychological because people have their stocks, they're down, they don't want to sell them. And that's only been going on for, what, two or three months now? The real question is, after six or seven or eight months and stocks are still down -- will people start selling at that point? And maybe the volume picks up at that point.

Prices are likely to continue to rise over the next month or so as a result of buyers returning to the market and supply remaining limited.

As the Nikkei moves up in price, it signifies growth in the Japanese economy. That will signal higher yields in Japan, which will make them at the margin less net buyers of U.S. Treasuries.