Then the sellers went up to $1.1 million.

So I'm experiencing the same emotions that all sellers go through when they put a specialty house on the market.

The seller went straight to Sotheby's instead of playing the auction houses against one another.

A best seller, it went through a second edition in 1997.

So, only the really big sellers are going to make much.

These sellers are just going to find another avenue.

Some sellers go beyond the normal inducements to get broker fired up to make a sale.

"Any seller is going to be categorically angry with the broker because the whole process has been so disappointing to him," he said.

"Understandably, these sellers are not going to offer any bargains."

"There's a minimum threshold that a seller is going to sell his property for."