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I was playing around a bit with Google Insights for Search when I came across this rather telling chart. The dark blue line below represents the general interest in real estate topics, as measured by Google. No surprise that it peaked in July 2005 and has been on a steady down trend ever since. The…
It’s been almost two years since we first looked at Google’s Real Estate Index, and I thought it was past time for another visit to this particular data set. To save you the time it would take to re-visit the old post, here’s Google’s description of what they’re doing: The Google Real Estate Index tracks…
I received a few questions in the comments and via email last week about how to find bank-owned homes, so I thought I’d put together a little guide. For the purposes of this post, we’ll consider foreclosures in three stages: Pre-Foreclosure, Unlisted Bank-Owned, and On-Market Bank-Owned. Pre-Foreclosure A home in pre-foreclosure is one where the…
A couple of readers alerted me to an interesting feature that has been added sometime recently to Google’s financial tools, the Google Real Estate Index. Obviously like most of the statistics provided by Google, this index tracks searches. Here is their description: The Google Real Estate Index tracks queries related to “real estate, mortgage, rent,…