There are improvements in some parts of town while others continue to decline. 

I don't see much declining any time soon and definitely not where we were before they start rising. 

The peak of STR activity is the festival season, as you correctly noted, and the demand for STRs does a slow decline after that, as the transient population returns to their main residences around the country for summer, and as temperatures start to go up dramatically here in the desert.

We have had essentially 40 years of declining interst rates.

The population decline does concern me which is definitely something I am considering when making my final choice.

Are Jefferson and Shelby counties experiencing decline in job growth or population growth.2.

Prices haven't done diddly in the teeny farm town where I grew up, and I won't buy there as population is in decline. 

They declined to waive the fee and ask to pay for the fine.

We are going through a similar problem in New Orleans at the moment with rents beginning to decline a little bit but insurance costs are skyrocketing at the same time.

With the last recession, we saw maybe 6% decline in property values.