About Vancouver's Dunbar

The Westside neighbourhoods posted strong sales and listing numbers for the fourth consecutive week as we move towards the Olympics with firm market share on both the sales and supply side. Vancouver West saw 253 new attached listings (up from 213 in the previous week) as a whole with the Westside neighbourhoods contributing 108 new attached listings or roughly 43% of all new supply. The University, Kitsilano, and Fairview areas demonstrated strong supply numbers with 15, 27, and 18 new attached listings respectively.

Both new listing supply and confirmed sales continued to trend upwards this past week as we move to recover from the 'holiday lull' which has persisted since mid-December. Vancouver West as a whole saw 273 new attached listings this past week with 120 (44%) of these falling in the Westside neighbourhoods (compared to 43% in the previous week). Kitsilano and Fairview continued to be strong points of supply on the Westside; with 26 new attached listings in Kitsilano, and 22 new attached listings in Fairview.

New detached listing conditions continued to trend upwards on the Westside as sellers moved to meet the continued demand being generated, especially in areas like Dunbar, Kitsilano, and Shaughnessy. Supply improved for a third consecutive week as we saw 76 new detached listings on the Westside (an improvement from the 57 listings we witnessed in the previous week). Dunbar remained particularly active with 12 new detached listings, leading the way on the Westside. Kitsilano, Kerrisdale, and Point Grey also had notable weeks with 8 new detached listings in each area.

Most of us have heard about blogging, have been told to blog, and think its important but don't really know how important it may be. I run a website called www.VancouverPropertyFinder.com I use Active Rain to blog. My idea is to drive traffic from my blog to my website. (I also forward my blogs to Twitter and Facebook - Facebook Application - Simplaris Blogcast). So with all this effort, I need proof that "the game is worth the candle".

I have the proof!

For those of you with a website, you must have some means of monitoring your site's traffic. I use Statcounter.com

This tool offers a variety of reports but I chose the one that showed First Time Visitors by date. With this data, one can next correlate the data to the date of blogs recorded in Active Rain Statistics page:

In my experience, every time I blogged ( sample interval was 11 blogs in 31 days), my site traffic increased, on average, 75% more after each blog. If one recognizes that inertia for a site grows with time, these numbers are more than encouaging!

Speacial thank you to Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real Estate for techniques on saving screen shots using Screen Hunter.

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