• Foot traffic can give a strong indication of future home sales.  SentriLock, LLC. provides NAR Research with monthly data on the number of showings.
• Foot traffic in the area covered by the Wilson Board of REALTORS® (North Carolina) rose only 3% in March of this year compared to March of 2011, but this modest improvement was important.
• This spring’s trend marks the first improvement in foot traffic in roughly four years, a sign that the local market is bottoming and headed toward recovery.
• For more information on this data and its use, see the economist’s commentary, “Foot Traffic – Getting a Step Ahead”.