I have been watching this number for several months now. I find it interesting that human beings with a million other things to do, would come to a real estate website more and more often, each and every month.
The number of unique visitors to real estate sites jumped to 42.2 million in February, an increase of 14 percent compared to the same month in 2007, according to comScore.
The Move Network, which includes Realtor.com, saw the number of visitors climb by 22 percent to 9.4 million, compared to a year ago. It’s the top real estate site.
AOL, which reportedly relaunched its real estate portal late last year, showed a quick ascent. It had 3.1 million unique visitors in February, trailing only Move.com, Yahoo Real Estate, and MSN Real Estate.
Noone cares about real estate until they have at least partially committed to a move. So at worst these millions of real estate website visitors are sitting on the fence, waiting for a good Realtor to gently push them on over into ownershipville.