Working on loan pre-approvals... home purchases are definately picking up around here. what about where you are?

It's too early to tell. Right now, business "picking up" would mean the offer didn't fall out of escrow! The only really vigorous business here is in foreclosures.

On Maui, they seem to be down. There are a lot of foreclosures in the paper now. On the Big Island they are definitely down.

I watch Discovery Harbour down by South Point. There are almost no sales lately.

I'm in Logan, Utah. Supposedly we haven't been effected that much by the recession. In fact, we're often rated as one of the best places for employment in the Nation.So home purchases kinda slowed down here, but not like they did in other parts of the country.

I don't think that they are picking up now- they never really slowed down.

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