Yesterday, after the housing data came out, there was spike in the number of web-generated inquiries we see.<\/p>\n
I’d have to take the time to aggregate the data across all clients to put a number on it, but just looking at the inbox we use to keep an eye on “Ask our Agent” questions, the jump was significant. <\/p>\n
Obviously, people are influenced by the news. I could look at Q4 traffic graph from last year and show you the day Lehman went down, but I don’t remember a good news bump like this in the five years I’ve been managing Real Estate Web sites.<\/p>\n
Are you seeing the same thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I’d have to take the time to aggregate the data across all clients to put a number on it, but just looking at the inbox we use to keep an eye on “Ask our Agent” questions, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":507,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/507\/arizona-economy-get-over-housing-bubble-economists-say-growth-remains-strong\/","url_meta":{"origin":7571,"position":0},"title":"Arizona economy: “Get over housing bubble, economists say, growth remains strong”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I won't have September's numbers until tomorrow, but the news is not good for bubbleheads -- which is to say that the news is not bad for everyone else. 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