A report from the Tampa Bay Times in Florida. "Even in a hot housing market like Tampa Bay's, a bit of divine intervention never hurts. Sellers, meet St. Joseph. Legend has it that burying a statue of St. Joseph near a home for sale can quickly attract a buyer. Hence, a banner business in 'St. Joseph Home Selling Kits' that contain a statue of Joseph and a prayer card."

"Not everyone is high on Joseph. In October, one reviewer of a St. Joseph selling kit on Amazon gave it a single star out of a possible five. 'Coincidence at best. Don't waste your$. He didn't help sell my house so I threw St. Joseph out of my yard and told him not to come back or I'll call the authorities.'"

From KOMO News in Washington. "Seattle home price growth slowed again in the latest period, dropping to fourth highest in the nation after reigning as No. 1 for much of the past two years. New data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index show that average Seattle home prices have actually dropped by about 2.4 percent over the past two months. That's the steepest drop of any city in the index."

"'Prospective home buyers can no longer sustain the demand that propped up aggressively rising home prices,' said Cheryl Young, a senior economist with the Trulia. 'With little sign that home buyers' purchasing power will strengthen into 2019, expect the housing market to stagnate well into next year.'"

The Denver Post in Colorado. "Home price gains across much of the country, including metro Denver, showed signs of slowing in October, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices. 'October marked another month of slowing home-price appreciation, but ' recent signs point to a gentle softening of the housing market, rather than a crash landing,' said Ralph McLaughlin, deputy chief economist for CoreLogic in a blog post on the numbers."

The Dallas Morning News in Texas. "Houses are taking longer to sell in North Texas, and there is a growing number of price cuts. Through the first 11 months of 2018 the number of homes up for sale in the region has grown almost 25 percent."

"'Listings with price cuts and longer time on market — already both growing — may become even more frequent,' Zillow senior economist Aaron Terrazas said. 'For the time being, this slowdown represents a return to fundamentals more than anything else, and to more balance between buyers and sellers.'"

From the Oregonian. "Boom. Bust. Boom. Sales have slumped, and houses that might once have sold in a couple of days instead took a couple of weeks. 'I'm trying to tell people that this hasn't been a normal market' in recent years, said Leslie Jones, a managing broker at Re/Max Equity Group in Portland."

"But as home price increases have slowed, homeowners have been slow to adapt. That's resulted in more sellers lowering prices after their homes sat on the market for a few weeks. In November, a third of active Portland home listings dropped their price."

"'We all like to say we think we know what our houses are worth,' said Matthew Gardner, chief economist for Windermere Realty Group. 'But home sellers' expectations are still too high.'"

The San Francisco Business Journal in California. "Even as more and more Bay Area cities surpass the $1 million median home price mark, with the bulk of inventory out of reach for potential homebuyers in the lower earning rungs, San Francisco's prices have slightly sagged. Socketsite recently reported that one-third of San Francisco's homes are listed for under $1 million, with inventory at that level up 3 percent from 2017 as price cuts spike."

From Lehigh Valley Live in Pennsylvania. "Price reductions continue to be common in the Lehigh Valley's housing market. Sellers, real estate agents say, could lower listing prices for a variety of reasons. They run the gamut from homes being overpriced in the initial listing to buyers getting into financial binds and needing to sell faster than originally thought."

"Nationally, about 13 percent of sellers reduce the price of their house at least once. The longer a home is on the market, the lower the odds are of selling it for list price, according to a Zillow report. Sellers who accept an offer within the first week of listing have a 57 percent chance of selling for list price. During week two, it's 50 percent, and then it drops to 39 percent, 32 percent, and so on, according to Zillow."

"The region continues to have a great amount of properties dropping asking prices weekly. We gathered a sampling of some of the most recent reductions in Northampton and Lehigh counties and listed them from high to low, according to Trulia. The steepest savings we found included one home reduced by $700,000."