InsideBayArea.com - "Housing market cool-down expected to continue next year" (12-31-06)

"THE CHILL is not gone. That's the outlook this year for the Bay Area's residential real estate market, which moved into what real estate types like to call "balanced territory" in 2006. The slowdown follows a red-hot market over the last few years that set new sales records and favored sellers, who saw record prices and double-digit appreciation. "