Will market warm up this spring?

The spring market always is the hottest period of the year for home sales. The pertinent question is that whether this spring will be better than last spring was. As per the article from The Washington Times, the author states that the increase in traffic that agents were reporting caused some to hope that the spring market would pick up in a big way. Cumulative data for the District actually shows sales there up by 2 percent over the first four months of the year, but that is the only jurisdiction where sales have risen this year. April's lackluster sales meant that home prices are falling or stagnant in most of the region. [Chris Sicks, The Washington Times, May 18, 2007]