Home sales dipped 10 percent, but prices up again

Phil Johnson left Pittsburgh to work in Anne Arundel's red-hot real estate market six months ago.

So far, though, it has proved harder than just printing up some business cards and waiting for the phone to ring.

"I'm hustling," said Mr. Johnson, a real estate agent with Keller Williams in Severna Park. "It's a service industry. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication."

And perhaps a little help from sellers who have flooded the market with more homes, and still think they can demand any price.

The tide has turned: It's a buyer's market.

There was growing evidence of the slowdown yesterday when the...