March is historically one of the busiest months of the year for the Tampa area real estate market. But while we saw a typical month-over-month increase in home sales, March saw home sales decrease year-over-year, and that is congruent with what is happening on a national level. As was predicted, home sales have been slowing down. But it's important to recognize that this is a sign of the market returning back to a healthy equilibrium as there has still been an increase in sales price year-over-year. It will be important to watch what happens over the next few months as one of the determining factors in the market shift was increasing interest rates but, though we expected them to be above 5