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	<title>Hitwise Blog &#187; Real Estate</title>
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		<title>VantageScore Provides New Insight Into Online Real Estate Visits</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/09/22/vantagescore-provides-new-insight-into-online-real-estate-visits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News yesterday that housing starts jumped 10.5% to a four month high provided some hope that the National Bureau of Economic Research&#8217;s pronouncement that the recession was so 2009, may in fact, have some validity. We&#8217;ve been following the online component to real estate industry activity, our Business &#8211; Real Estate category. In the chart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Searches for Properties for Rent up 150% for the Year</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/05/18/canadian-searches-for-properties-for-rent-up-150-for-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/05/18/canadian-searches-for-properties-for-rent-up-150-for-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Financial Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian internet searches for properties for rent searches (e.g. variations of &#8216;apartments for rent&#8217;, &#8216;houses for rent&#8217;, &#8216;maison a louer&#8217;) experienced a sharp increase over the past year, with a 158.2% increase in the first quarter of the year and 150.2% year over year (comparing Q1 2010 with Q4 2009 and Q1 2009). The increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rentals benefit from weak housing market</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/05/12/rentals-benefit-from-weak-housing-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/05/12/rentals-benefit-from-weak-housing-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media coverage of the US housing market of late rarely has much good news except for a recent uptick in the Case Shiller Index thought to be a potential sign of stabilization for the housing market. Unfortunately, other data points offer a bleaker outlook, with strategic defaults of mortgages on the rise and an estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/07/07/google-real-estate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/07/07/google-real-estate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has entered the real estate listings business by allowing users to find property listings on Google Maps. Searchers are still offered the usual business listings but are now also offered the option to see property listings as well. The listings include some basic filtering and the ability to save and share the results. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Looking Up? Comparing Home and Apartment Queries</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/06/09/real-estate-looking-up-comparing-home-and-apartment-queries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/06/09/real-estate-looking-up-comparing-home-and-apartment-queries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last months release of April real estate figures indicates an uptick in the market. Existing home sales of 4.68MM for April were up 2.9% compared to March. New home sales registered a very slight increase of .2% or 352,000 new homes for the month. Even though housing starts were down a dismal 12.8%, when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home buyers seek foreclosure bargains</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/12/home-buyers-seek-foreclosure-bargains/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/12/home-buyers-seek-foreclosure-bargains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, a WSJ article discussed the increased competition that home builders now face from the increased number of homes in foreclosure in the US. Now used homes are for sale along side new ones in many neighborhoods and in many cases buyers are considering the foreclosed homes as a less expensive option. With the number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Market &#8211; Have We Reached Bottom?</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/07/29/housing-market-have-we-reached-bottom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/07/29/housing-market-have-we-reached-bottom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our ABCNews Blog: Last week&#8217;s report on existing home sales by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), revealing a 2.6 percent decline from May, added to the pile of sobering news about the housing market and the economy. Here at Hitwise, we have found, in the past, that Internet activity around home purchase decisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Starts in U.S. Looking Up</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/03/20/housing-starts-in-u-s-looking-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/03/20/housing-starts-in-u-s-looking-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The commerce department released housing starts for February 2007 today, reporting that starts unexpectedly rebounded 9% from the previous month, after a 9 year low. Pouring a little cold water on the news, the Commerce department also reported that housing permits (a leading indicator to starts) were down 2.5% for February. Lets take at look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Base and Real Estate</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/03/08/google-base-and-real-estate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/03/08/google-base-and-real-estate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Battelle&#8217;s post here alerted me to Google&#8217;s push in the real estate space. As a search engine, Google plays a dominant role as the #1 source of traffic to the Hitwise U.S. Real Estate category (1,825 sites), providing close to 16% of all traffic to the category (up from 13% a year ago). This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Existing and New Home Sales &#8211; September Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/10/25/existing-and-new-home-sales-september-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/10/25/existing-and-new-home-sales-september-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 10:00am ET, the National Association of Realtors will release September&#8217;s existing home sales numbers. Last month, I predicted a change of direction in housing sales based on a pattern we have noticed in the query &#8220;homes for sale.&#8221; While August sales continued to fall, the decrease was only .5% versus the 2.5% mean [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unexpected Decline in Existing Home Sales? Not Exactly.</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/08/24/unexpected-decline-in-existing-home-sales-not-exactly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/08/24/unexpected-decline-in-existing-home-sales-not-exactly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their existing homes sales figures for July. Headlines covering the release talked about the surprising drop in this economic indicator. Once again, leveraging the power of our search term data (as we did here in our post about the monthly unemployment number), we weren&#8217;t surprised by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zillow #2 in Real Estate Category after Second Day Online</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/02/16/zillow-2-in-real-estate-category-after-second-day-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/02/16/zillow-2-in-real-estate-category-after-second-day-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn Prescott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zillow, a startup that allows users to view home valuations and specs on an interactive map, launched on February 7, 2006 and by Feb. 9 achieved a rank of #2 in the Hitwise Real Estate category, receiving more traffic that category leaders like Rent.com and Yahoo! Real Estate. Nearly a week later, on Feb. 14, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Home Construction Softening?</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2005/11/10/is-home-construction-softening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2005/11/10/is-home-construction-softening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this Business Week article today on MSN. The article provides some great fodder for data analysis. In short, Toll Brothers, the nations largest manufacturer of luxury homes warned this week of softening in the housing market. The article&#8217;s author Peter McCoy poses some great questions regarding trade-offs between renting/buying and saving/spending and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real Estate Category and Hurricane Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2005/10/07/real-estate-category-and-hurricane-katrina/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2005/10/07/real-estate-category-and-hurricane-katrina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While we normally see a seasonal drop in visits to the Hitwise Business &#038; Finance &#8211; Real Estate Category (which contains 982 sites and comprised 0.45% Internet visits for the week ending 10/1/05)starting in mid-summer, visits to the category took an unprecedented hit the last week of August leading into September. Hypothesis: Hurricane Katrina and [...]]]></description>
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