Southwest Florida ranks high in online interest
Herald Tribune -- Staff Report Online searches for properties at a prominent real estate site showed North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota as the third biggest target in the nation.The local market was behind only Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville and Lakeland-Winter Haven on a list produced by Trulia.com for the fourth quarter and released on Thursday.
The calculation by the Internet real estate site, which logs 100 million property views each month, found more than six times as many "inbound" home searches by outsiders for this region as "outbound" by local residents.
The region had been tops on a previous list for the third quarter.
Trulia also gave some insight as to where the interest was coming from. In the case of Gulf Coast homes, more came from Chicago than anywhere else. For the Atlantic coast and Central Florida, demand was coming from New York more than anywhere else.
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