Stats to Track

Welcome back! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

We’re into the home stretch now. As we make that final push to the end of the year, we know you’ll be keeping a close eye on your numbers. Then again, we know in our business, we can sometimes feel overwhelmed by all the data out there.

So which numbers are the most crucial to track? There are the obvious ones, but then there are others that definitely need our attention.

If you scroll down to today’s Foundation Plans, you’ll see we list several key statistics to keep an eye on as we close out the year, and especially as we plan for 2024.

We wish you all the best as we all try to close out this year strong!

– James and David

New home sales fell in October, dropping 5.6% from September’s revised 719,000 to an annual rate of 679,000 sales. According to Zillow, although the level fell month-over-month, October’s rate was 17.7% higher year-over-year. These are the key takeaways from October:

• By the end of the month, mortgage rates reached the highest level in more than 20 years. As a result, affordability conditions deteriorated further and buyers pulled back in parts of the country. 

• New home sales fell month-over-month in the Midwest (-16.4%) and the West (-23.3%), and climbed in the Northeast (+13.2%) and South (+2.1%). 

• Despite the month-over-month variation across the country, all four regions saw a higher rate of new home sales in October than one year ago, with increases ranging from 8.5% to 19.2% year-over-year

• The median sales price of new houses sold in October was $409,300.

• The seasonally-adjusted estimate of new houses for sale at the end of October was 439,000, a supply of 7.8 months at the current sales rate.

Real estate is definitely a people business, but it’s also a numbers game. This is why it’s crucial to keep track of your stats. Today, we’re going over some key metrics:

Year-over-year production – Compare your current performance to the previous year. This metric provides invaluable insights into whether your performance is aligned with your goals. It’s concrete data that enables you to make strategic adjustments to ensure continuous growth and success.

Active and future listings – Listings are king in real estate. Understanding current active listings provides insights into market trends, pricing strategies, and property availability. Future listings help in planning and preparing for upcoming opportunities. Being aware of active and future listings allows you to better match client needs with available properties, offer more tailored and timely options, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Conversion rate – It’s vital to know how effective you are in turning inquiries or leads into actual business. Monitoring this conversion rate helps in evaluating the efficiency of sales strategies, identifying areas for improvement in communication or sales techniques, and ultimately optimizing efforts to increase successful deals. This helps maximize your productivity and revenue potential.

Lead flow – We will say this till we’re dead. Never let your pipeline go dry. It’s critical to continuously generate leads, but you also need to know how effectively your marketing tactics are working. To do that, you need to track the number and quality of potential clients, as well as identify which lead sources are most successful. Tracking lead flow helps optimize your time and resources to maximize your chances of securing more deals.  

This is just the tip of the iceberg. To learn what other metrics to track, start here.

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We’ll see you on Friday. Till then, hustle! Hard work never hurt anybody!

– James and David