Don't you just love them real estate agents and industry players? :D
Meanwhile real estate agents are busy telling committed vendors how difficult it is to sell properties out there and why they need to bring down prices before prices go down further! At the same time, they are telling prospective vendors that there is good demand out there - just needs a bit of time to get the price they are looking for!
Get the mandate to sell first, list for a few weeks and then : "It's a buyers' market" - the current catch cry of the industry to sellers.
Two years' ago, it was "It's a sellers' market"!