Foreclosure Listings Become New Hot Market

Posted by RealEstateBargains.biz

February 9, 2008

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By Jason Andy Miller

Looking at the search trend data for last 12 months in U.S. According to online search trends in Google, foreclosure listing searches have increased to reach its highest in search volume in the past four years. The Real Estate industry has slumped to its lowest in the past 10 years. Home owners who default on their mortgages have no choice but to foreclose.

Foreclosure Listings Rise as Real Estate Industry Dives

Nationwide foreclosures have increased due to late mortgage payments by high interest rates. All these foreclosures mean more listings to be made available to the public. This year alone over 450,000 foreclosure filings in California have added to the highest number of home foreclosure filings. Many foreclosure analysts predict that now is the best time to purchase a foreclosed home. These foreclosure prices are very low, some reduced to 50 percent from a year prior.

Foreclosure Search Increasing

Since the fourth quarter of 2007 more people are searching for foreclosures online. According to Search Trends in the leading search engine giant Google these foreclosures search terms are receiving the highest traffic: foreclosure, stop foreclosure, foreclosure listings and foreclosure homes. These heavily searched words are showing more than just news bits and sales offers and has become seeded with web 2.0 media. Websites with videos, audio and podcasts are showing up in the search engine index. The next wave of real estate marketing will have to offer these media features or else loose out on targeted traffic. Five years ago real estate and video clips would never been considered in marketing. Change happens overnight for the internet, who knows what the next big web feature will be.