Austin Home Buyers are Back
I posted early in the month about the amount of activity on my website picking up a lot. This was based on the number of website visitors registering to use my property search feature jumping. I have another indication that things are heating up for the Austin real estate market.
I use a property search feature that give me some pretty good stats about my traffic. As of January 20, I have had 2,716 visitors on my Austin real estate website. Another thing measured is the number of maps being viewed. Any time a visitor changes something about the map, it is a new map view. So if a visitor does something like moving the map or zooming in or out, that is a map view. I have had 17,894 map views through the 20th. The way these numbers project out, my website will have more visitors in January of 2010 than in any month last year and almost aany map view as May, 2009.
Oh, one more thing... I have had more phone calls and emails for information or showings so far this month than I remember having in any month in 2009. As encouraging as all of this is, what will really tell me something is when some of these folks start writing offers. That is what I hope to see starting soon.
Update in May, 2010. Many of the people I had been talking to in January vanished without a trace. No returned phone calls, no returned emails - nothing at all. But now that May is here, I am seeing activity again. I have three weekends already booked in May and June with buyers.