The sensation of seller's remorse, on the other hand, is rarer but more lasting, sometimes lingering for years — a fact that those who are thinking of selling in this increasingly buyer-friendly market may do well to consider.
Increasingly, buyers looking at new cars may find themselves confronted with an unexpected choice: to turbo or not to turbo?
Increasingly, buyers include Indian and Chinese employees of Nokia, the multinational communications corporation, which has headquarters near Helsinki, Ms. Anttila-Kangas said.
Increasingly, buyers have shown a willingness to select art online and pay for it online, too, without ever seeing the original work.
Increasingly, buyers in their 40's and 50's are searching for homes from which they can telecommute now and retire later.
But the national buying manager for Waterstone's is one of a relatively tiny number of people - including, increasingly, buyers from the major supermarkets - whom publishers must convince to purchase a title in bulk if it is to succeed.
Sales is becoming an increasingly buyer-dictated industry.
Increasingly, buyers are watching the ratio of "horsepower per liter," and the Mercedes V-8 doesn't stack up as well.
Increasingly, buyers will rush to products that come closest to that ideal--and punish the manufacturers who don't.
"This is the real recovery," Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of Beacon Economics, said of a market where increasingly buyers actually want to live in the houses they purchase.
The best is a two-hander, "Wildwood Park," in which a beleaguered real estate agent (Ms. Lyles) shows an increasingly suspect buyer (Reg Rogers) around a house in which a famously gruesome and unsolved murder has recently occurred.
