Traffic to this blog keeps going up month after month. 7,349 visits last month.

All the visits just from Florida alone.

As expected as the renting season starts to cool off in the fall pretty much all the top rental sites dropped in traffic. Except for Tenant.com which had a large up swing.

So now we have two free sites in the top 5, House.info and Tenant.com. That is disappointing. I thought I was going to move up to the 5th spot after HomeRentalAds.com slipped off the charts. I have still not seen the numbers from Quantcast.com which I will update later.

I am guessing Tenant.com is picking up power because of the international work they do.

New numbers are in from Compete.com. Quantcast.com numbers are not yet available, but I will update this post when they come in.

Rentals.com takes a dominating lead with a large traffic increase, pushing RentalHouses.com into 2nd place. RentalHouses only held the title for a month.

RentalHomesPlus is now in 3rd place. This is actually pretty big news because now Primedia does not own the top three sites anymore. I like this, but I am not happy that another very large company like Classified Ventures is taken that spot – I would have liked to see a mom and pop site take that spot.

As you can see RentClicks dropped to almost last place – I am not sure why it even gets traffic if all of it redirects to Rentals.com, but I am still happy to see it almost dead.

I am still surprised by HotPads growth the past two months – not sure what is happening there. I will have to take a look into that. Does anyone have any ideas what they are doing?

I am happy to report that my site RentVine is now in the top 6 and after next month I should be in the top 5 once HomeRentalAds.com is dead.

I must say, I am impressed with Rentals.com team for pulling such large numbers, they now have 5 times the traffic I do. But don’t worry I have a few tricks up my sleeve.

Totally blew away last months record of 4,256 visits with over 6,000 visits in August.

I am very happy that people stick around for an average of almost 6 minutes reading my blog.

The new traffic stats are out today, and RentalHouses holds the lead again. RentClicks.com (which is not around anymore) only dropped one spot. I am kind of surprised to see RentClicks have any traffic at all – they must check before the 301 redirect happens.

House.info is still climbing on their black-hat link building ways and jumps one spot.

HomeRentalAds has dropped from 4th to 6th spot. We should see this site die at the end of the month.

RentalHomesPlus went up one spot – I am not sure why because it appears like they slowed their AdWords spending.

HotPads.com climbed a bit.

RentVine.com holds at the #7 spot. I need to get off this silly blog and create something that brings in more traffic so I can climb up a few spots!

Another record month in traffic for this blog. As you can see I got a ton of traffic for people trying to find RentClicks.

Here is the growth of visits to my RentVine site since I started it back in April of 2005. These are not unique visits, they are raw visits (which includes spiders).

If you average that out, that is a monthly growth rate of 19%.

Caroline Latham of RealFacts.com has published her quarterly newsletter again and has more interesting stats for Seattle and San Jose.

“Quarterly rent increases sizzled at 3.1% in the Seattle and San Jose Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) according to second quarter survey results released on 15 July by Realfacts. These rates translate to monthly average rent increases of $31 and $47, pushing total rents to $1,035 and $1,569 respectively. If these quarterly rates continue, both MSAs will have annual rent growth of 12.4%. The MSAs also reported strong occupancy, with Seattle holding steady just above 95% and San Jose continuing to increase, up to 97.3% from 96.5% last quarter.”

Meanwhile Phoenix and Vegas growth slides:

“Previous annual rent growth leaders Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Riverside-San Bernardino continued to slide, reporting annual rent growth at 3.7%, 3.3% and 4.1% respectively. As these three slid two MSAs that had been losers for a long time look poised to join the over 5% club. If the quarterly gains recorded during the second quarter by Denver and Tulsa of 1.7% and 1.3% continue for a whole year they will post annual rent growth of 6.8% and 5.2% respectively.”

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