It's a buyer's market

The local market, in my opinion, seems to have had the wind sucked out of its sails just over the last week or so. There are so many homes out there right now and the pool of buyers seems to have dwindled down to a trickle from the torrent we had all Spring and Summer to this point.
It's difficult to buy a home and be in before school starts at this point and that has a lot to do with it too.
It seems like a lot of sellers tested the market, found there were homes out there for them to buy and put theirs on the market only to find that they can't move it as quickly as they'd hoped.
If you're buying, go for it. The market is on your side.