A report from the Seattle Times in Washington. "After having the hottest housing market in the country for two years, Seattle home sales have cooled. This is annoying news for people who paid way over the asking price for their house purchases at the height of the market a few months ago. It is also a disappointment for folks with homes to sell right now. Instead of having the price jacked up in a frenzied bidding war between potential buyers, sellers are cutting the asking price to lure in the diminished number of house hunters."

"This is good news for homebuyers, right? The answer is yes — with a big asterisk. From 2012 to last spring, prices shot up 136 percent. The 11 percent drop since then is significant, but it still leaves the median sale price of a house in King County at $644,000."

The Tampa Bay Times in Florida. "Will we see the same trends as in 2018, when prices rose due to a relatively scant supply of available homes? To get some answers, we spoke with four experts."

"Daren Blomquist, senior vice president of ATTOM Data Solutions: 'I see Tampa Bay shaping up similar to what we're seeing in many markets, which is a cooling trend in 2019 with the rate of price appreciation slowing down. ..We saw a string of many months that were double digit going all the way back to 2015.'"

"'The Tampa Bay market is still outperforming the national market and many others similarly sized including Phoenix, Charlotte, Austin and Nashville but we're still seeing that trend toward slowing appreciation, which I think is a good thing. We were seeing unsustainable price growth over the last six years, and if it continued we'd be talking about, ‘Are we in another housing bubble?’ What really stands out is not just the price increase but that the increase in wages has not kept up. (Since 2012, home prices have risen 120 percent in Hillsborough County while wages are up 9 percent. In Pinellas, prices are up 110 percent versus 10 percent for wages.)'"

"Charles Richardson, regional senior vice president of West Central Florida, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate: 'I'm relatively optimistic (about 2019). We still have excellent pricing when you compare our market to other markets around Florida and the country... That said, inventory is growing right now. There is a little bit of a shift from everything selling in a week to people being very judicious with their evaluations of pricing.'"

From Nevada Business. "Nevada’s luxury home market is growing. New residents flocking to our state bring with them equity from cities with more expensive housing markets and unfriendly tax environments, and find they can buy a whole lot more house for their money."

"An important factor buyers need to understand is, it’s an expensive market, said James Pickett, president, Montreux Homeowners Association. 'A lot of people have sticker shock when coming into Reno, Las Vegas, Phoenix or Sacramento. The people who don’t are coming from the Bay Area or Orange County.'"

"The Reno luxury home market may see a slight leveling off in 2019. 'That’s not a bad thing,' said Pickett. 'This past summer it was kind of a frenzy that anything that would come on the market would sell and now subcontractors are calling back saying they’re ready to bid on projects where three months ago they couldn’t even bid they were so busy.'"

"'With luxury homes, the higher the price point, the less people are using financing to get into $2 and $3 million and up, said Heidi Kasama of Nevada Realtors . Many of those homes are purchased with all cash, so [financing] is no longer an issue. But $1 to $2 million, those are getting loans on the properties and lending standards have tightened.'"