Our company runs over 60 web sites with real estate listings --- the company site, and a web site for each agent.  Over the past year there have been hundreds of thousands of property views on this set of web sites --- with each property view being a web user clicking to view the details of a given property.

The graph above shows a trendline for the number of properties viewed during each of the past 12 months on all of these web sites combined.  The trendline is likely not too surprising, as we see a tremendous amount of activity in March/April/May, gearing up for summer purchases, and we see a rather significant drop through the remainder of the year (August-December). 

January, however, showed a sharp incline --- which leads me to question --- is this simply a seasonal trend coming around again, or will we see a significantly stronger real estate market this spring?