Despite the headlines, February was a very positive month for Birmingham area housing sales. Sales were up 5% from the previous month, and days on the market were down dramatically. Now, if we could just convince the news reporters to provide more accurate headlines. This link on the Birmingham Business Journal is just one example. They chose the report the numbers as a negative since February's numbers were down from February of last year. I know this is normally a popular way to read the stats, but everyone knows we are in a down market, and it will take until 2009 for monthly numbers to exeed previous year's. An article that had a positive headline would have attracted more readers.