Bill Tancer’s blog first hit my radar when Lee Rainie at Pew Internet & American Life told me about it… since then, I’ve found it to be a treasure-trove of insight into search traffic. Last month, I wrote about Bill’s observations about home sales, and the fact that he believed, based on search activity in August, that home sales would pick up in August, reversing a summer-long trend.
Guess what? He was right. That’s huge.
Homes for Sale Search Data Leads to Accurate Housing Prediction by HitWise's Bill Tancer...
ReplyDeleteThank you to Rick Klau for writing a follow-up post about Bill Tancer's analyis of "homes for sale" searches and their correlation with actual home sales. A month ago, Tancer publised a post on his Hitwise blog describing a correlation......