The economics of scarcity are driving prices up at an unsustainable pace. What will happen this spring and summer will likely be more of the same. The real estate vortex we’re in of depleted inventory and high prices is real and unrelenting.  If interest rates weren’t historically low, buyers would be unable to afford the escalating cost of housing.  Sellers are almost as rare as the dodo bird. Although the number of new listings coming onto the market has kept pace or even exceeded last year’s totals in some areas, new listings are immediately devoured by a plethora of waiting buyers. The situation has buyers asking, “Am I paying too much?” and sellers asking, “Can we ask more?” That answer for both is “Yes,”