I am happy to report that our company has been quite busy selling homes lately here in Austin, with the last quarter shaping up very nicely. In fact, this has probably been the most active season for our company in about two years.
My friend Brian Block, who is a broker in the northern Virginia/D.C area, sent me a link to an interesting and encouraging article from Realtor.com, which states that Austin took the top spot in year-over-year search increase on Realtor.com, with a 91% jump from September 2008 to September 2009. WOW! This is clearly very exciting news for us. Brian spotted this article on Twitter.
Thankfully, we have seen similar results with the traffic to our website at www.austintexashomes.com, which is in the top 5 results on Google for almost every major real estate term that I care about.
The other cities in the top five were Las Vegas, New Orleans, Reno, and Tyler, Texas. Tyler came as an interesting surprise to me. My parents lived in Tyler just before I was born and we have relatives in that area.
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Cheers ! Good for you and your Buyers and Sellers. Cheers to your AR presence and hopefully (Charlotte) can regain a shot back at the title. ( we are trying ) Good news is always welcome
Hi Jason! You know, our market showed a 38% increase, lagging way behind in spot #83 but, honestly, I don't know of that many buyers that use it anymore. I have not gotten one lead from Realtor.com in over 3 years and I pay dearly for their services! As a matter of fact, I'm just now evaluating whether to continue to market with them. I'm getting far more leads from Trulia! I'm wondering if, perhaps, Realtor.com published this to get more agents to sign up for their over-priced packagas?! (Can you tell I'm not a huge fan of Realtor.com?!) LOL
Jason...
Who knows? If the new $6500 credit for move-up buyers is approved I may be heading your way!
Hi Jason...Austin is a great town. Years ago I worked for a presidential advirsory committee on semidconductors and made a few trips to Sematech in Austin. Usually was too busy attending meetings to see much but I did like what I saw.
Kate
Debe - I am not a huge fan either, and we don't pay for any of their services, but I thought it was a cool indicator of overall activity regardless.
Richard - Come on down! I even know a good broker you could work with. :)
Hi Jason,
Glad to hear things are looking up in your market! Let's hope the good news is catching! :)
TYLER, TEXAS??? Really??? I almost fell out of my chair when I read that! Go figure!
Jason,
I knew there was a blog post coming as soon as I hit send on that e-mail.
Couldn't be better news for you there in Austin!
Jason, it sounds like your area is about ready to burst - enjoy the increased activity!
Maybe it is the rumors that Texas may finally secede from the union and they are buying property up just hoping.
Proving once again that Austin is where it's at!At least of you're in Texas ... Austin is the place to be ... for Texas. Good news for Austin.