Stores had a solid spring selling season, but May is turning out to be disappointing.
"It puts us in good position going into the spring selling season," he said.
The spring selling season usually begins sometime around March, the brokers noted.
"The long-awaited spring selling season of 2011 has not yet defined itself as the beginning of a recovery cycle," Stuart A. Miller, Lennar's chief executive, said.
A The spring selling season historically begins right after the Super Bowl and runs into the middle of April, so now we're over a month into the season.
The Redfin survey indicates that, nationally, would-be sellers holding off for the spring selling season may not be taking the best path.
He said being an advertiser during the Academy Awards "helps us be out in front of the spring selling season," a crucial period for a real-estate firm.
An increase in customer prepayments for the spring selling season helped lift free cash flow to $856 million, up from $500 million a year before.
Mr. Rantas said he made tens of thousands of dollars each spring selling the items on the street and in his nearby store.
"This number really reflects the peak of the spring selling season, when there tends to be more sales and more competition for houses".
THE good news, according to brokers, is that the pace of deal making has picked up as the peak spring selling season gets under way.
