Posts Tagged ‘ Real Estate ’
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’t surprised by [...][ READ MORE ]
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, [...][ READ MORE ]
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’s author Peter McCoy poses some great questions regarding trade-offs between renting/buying and saving/spending and [...][ READ MORE ]
While we normally see a seasonal drop in visits to the Hitwise Business & Finance – 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 [...][ READ MORE ]
