What buyers and sellers are thinking - new report!

I don't recommend clicking the survey link if you're at work.

interesting ... how come?

I ask because the survey does no tracking and is not bugged in any way ... it's legitimate and will be the first leading indicator of the housing market in the city

One of the domains in the chain - probably icptrack or surveymonkey - is on a widely-used blacklist. The link will set off alerts on many Internet proxies.

Not really legitimate as you can vote as many times as you want which means some brokers are gonna fill the survey as many times as they can to scew the results!
They should have implemented an IP address recognition so each IP address is only allowed to vote once.

Surveymonkey is on a blacklist?? didn't know that - will implement an IP address recognition right now :)

So now will you guys participate? *smile*

Already did....Twice! :-)

you got in there JUST before i changed the settings, sledgehammer :)

I filled out your survey, and can I say, I like your website, you have good topics and you write well and intelligently.
This may come off the wrong way but what is with silly tag names (Honeycrisp, Red delicious)? Is Granny Smith gonna cover condos in Boca? Crazy lowballs by Coco Puff?
The above probably comes off as mean, but at it's heart it's not meant to be. I think it's cheapening good work by you guys! I'd understand if your articles were more sarcastic and comedy heavy like "The Onion."
just sayin......
Apologies if I offended.

truthskr10 - must say, your post put SUCH a smile on our faces! :) we would never be offended by that, particularly when you praise the content ... it's a good point you make ..

we are trying to communicate our intention of objectivity via that extra level of anonymity that the pseudonyms provide. that way, people don't focus on us, or who we are, but the content and its merits
... just our thinking

honeycrisp.....so you are referring to the study done where a select group of men were asked to view 2 news cast presented by female reporters. One attractive and the other sort of on the the undesireable side. The results were that the men viewing the attractive news reporter couldn't recall anything she said however they could recall all the news reported from the female not genetically blessed. So you girls must be hot! :)

I thought you'd be smart enough to see the compliment. :)

i know that study well ... and, *coy smile*, we're definitely not ashamed of our looks *lol*

'doing well on the survey reponses so far; thanks, everyone!

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nice survey HC - are the results going to be posted here on SE? looking forward to seeing them!

Honeycrisp, lol, :) seriously,I think highly of your site as well. It's very clever. See u over there. Good luck.

thanks 82 and steveF ... survey's looking very interesting already :) can't wait to try and overlay this on top of current indicators like those that UrbanDigs has ...

Honeycrisp -- Did you know that people who use phrases like "lol" and *too many asterisks* and :) faces are considered stupid .... ?

Honey...do you have any experience in constructing surveys so that the results are meaningful? Something along the lines of polling? I don't think you'll find any valid answers in your survey. And if you publish results with your interpretation of the data, you are doing a disservice to your readers.

Walterh7 yes, I do - have created such polls for Fortune 100's. Further, we took great care to learn from existing economic consumer confidence indices in coming up with our questions and methodology.

Great question!

What the heck is the point about a sentiment survey.

Every day we have a liquid stock market that in daily trading is based on sentiment. Yesterday people felt bad and the market was down, today, people feel good and the market is up. And that's a liquid market. So surveying an illiquid market, what can you do with that "information"?

entertainment value

And it's about real estate....not gold, copper, muslim recreation centers, bush,'bama, fox news, socialism, etc.

huntersburg - i would say, to your point, that sentiment tends to drive asset price movement. true, in a less liquid market like real estate, it's less immediate in terms of impact but i've always been frustrated by the fact that there are very few leading indicators in R.E. and that few are trying to track the less quantitative factors like sentiment in the space.

we look forward to shedding at least some light on what buyers are thinking versus sellers, and use this as another data point on top of existing info (which is also flawed: quarterly data reflects activity that's lagging by 4-6 months, Shiller index not so relevant to NYC market, etc. etc.)

... in a world of imperfect data and information, even making it a little bit better, a little bit more transparent I believe (I hope) helps

(have i mentioned again to please take the survey? :) .... www.theapplepeeled.com )