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ByTheOwner.com’s website statistics for the month of January 2008:

Website visitors increased from 677,030 visitors in January 2007, to 973,095 in January 2008. This is a 44% increase in website visitors from January 2007 to 2008. We will soon be passing 1 million website visitors per month!

Pageviews increased from 6.2 million page views in January 2007, to 8.6 million pageviews in January 2008. This is 39% increase in pageviews from January 2007 to 2008.

Unique visitors and pageviews are the two most useful statistics when it comes to measuring the exposure you will receive from a For Sale By Owner website. Unique visitors is the number of individual people coming to look for properties on the site. Pageviews is the number of pages that those visitors look at.

Some websites claim to have a certain number of “hits”. This is not a valid measure of website activity, because a “hit” can be counted a number of different ways. For example, if a page has 30 images on it, and one person goes to that page, it could be counted as 30 “hits”. This would be like saying ByTheOwner.com received more than 200 million “hits”. ByTheOwner.com does not quote how many “hits” we receive because it is not a valid stat. Unique visitors and pageviews are the only real measure of website activity.

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ByTheOwner.com was recently featured in the National Post and the Financial Post. The articles focuse on our owner, Nicolas Bouchard, and our growth since 1997.

The articles can be read by clicking on the link below:

National Post Article

Financial Post Article

In the past 3 months, ByTheOwner.com has been featured in:

The Toronto Star

The Halifax Daily Star

The Vancouver Province

The Montreal Gazette

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ByTheOwner.com’s website statistics for the month of December 2007:

Website visitors increased from 348,672 unique visitors in December 2006, to 521,955 in December 2007. This is a 50% increase in unique website visitors from December 2006 to 2007.

Pageviews increased from 3.27 million page views in December 2006, to 4.54 million pageviews in December 2007. This is 28% increase in pageviews from December 2006 to 2007.

Unique visitors and pageviews are the two most useful statistics when it comes to measuring the exposure you will receive from a For Sale By Owner website. Unique visitors is the number of individual people coming to look for properties on the site. Pageviews is the number of pages that those visitors look at. For example, on ByTheOwner.com in December 2007 we had 521,955 unique visitors and they looked at 4.54 million pages. This means each visitor looked at approximately 9 pages.

Some websites claim to have a certain number of “hits”. This is not a valid measure of website activity, because a “hit” can be counted a number of different ways. For example, if a page has 30 images on it, and one person goes to that page, it could be counted as 30 “hits”. This would be like saying ByTheOwner.com received more than 173 million “hits” in August. ByTheOwner.com does not quote how many “hits” we receive because it is not a valid stat. Unique visitors and pageviews are the only real measure of website activity.

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Here are ByTheOwner.com’s Canadian For Sale By Owner stats for August 2007:

New listings increased 61% from 669 new listings in August 2006, to 1080 new listings in August 2007

Sold properties increased 39% from 361 sold properties in August 2006, to 502 sold properties in August 2007.

Total active listings increased 30% from 3,970 active homes for sale in August 2006, to 5189 active homes for sale in August 2007.

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ByTheOwner.com’s website statistics for the month of August 2007:

Website visitors increased from 463,560 unique visitors in August 2006, to 729,036 in August 2007. This is a 57% increase in unique website visitors from August 2006 to 2007.

Pageviews increased from 5.0 million page views in August 2006, to 6.5 million pageviews in August 2007. This is 30% increase in pageviews from August 2006 to 2007.

Unique visitors and pageviews are the two most useful statistics when it comes to measuring the exposure you will receive from a For Sale By Owner website. Unique visitors is the number of individual people coming to look for properties on the site. Pageviews is the number of pages that those visitors look at. On ByTheOwner.com in August 2007 we had 729,036 unique visitors and they looked at 6.5 million pages. This means each visitor looked at approximately 9 pages.

Some websites claim to have a certain number of “hits”. This is not a valid measure of website activity, because a “hit” can be counted a number of different ways. For example, if a page has 30 images on it, and one person goes to that page, it could be counted as 30 “hits”. This would be like saying ByTheOwner.com received more than 173 million “hits” in August. ByTheOwner.com does not quote how many “hits” we receive because it is not a valid stat. Unique visitors and pageviews are the only real measure of website activity.

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ByTheOwner.com recently passed 15,000 sold properties!

Since we started in 1997, we have consistently sold more properties each year:

1998 - 35 Sold Properties
1999 - 105 Sold Properties
2000 - 220 Sold Properties
2001 - 614 Sold Properties
2002 - 1059 Sold Properties
2003 - 1528 Sold Properties
2004 - 2269 Sold Properties
2005 - 2544 Sold Properties
2006 - 3510 Sold Properties
2007 - 3202 Sold Properties (As of Aug. 15th, 2007!)

These results do not include the sold properties from our Canadian Partner FSBO websites. OKhomeseller.com has helped sell 1735 properties since 2002 and Saskhouses.com has helped 735 properties sell so far in 2007 and they helped 1057 properties sell in 2006!

These numbers show that For-Sale-By-Owner in Canada is growing in popularity. Thanks to everyone selling without an agent!

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Here are ByTheOwner.com’s housing and listing stats for July 2007:

New listings increased 35% from 717 new listing in July 2006, to 968 new listings in July 2007

Sold properties increased 45% from 302 sold properties in July 2006, to 439 sold properties in July 2007.

Total active listings increased 23% from 3,900 active homes for sale in July 2006, to 4828 active homes for sale in July 2007.

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ByTheOwner.com’s website statistics for the month of July 2007:

Website visitors increased from 339,286 unique visitors in July 2006, to 651,086 in July 2007. This is a 94% increase in unique website visitors from July 2006 to 2007.

Pageviews increased from 3.7 million page views in July 2006, to 5.8 million pageviews in July 2007. This is 54% increase in pageviews from July 2006 to 2007.

Unique visitors and pageviews are the two most useful statistics when it comes to measuring the exposure you will receive from a For Sale By Owner website. Unique visitors is the number of individual people coming to look for properties on the site. Pageviews is the number of pages that those visitors look at. On ByTheOwner.com in July 2007 we had 651,086 unique visitors and they looked at 5.8 million pages. This means each visitor looked at approximately 9 pages.

Some websites claim to have a certain number of “Hits”. This is not a valid measure of website activity, because a “hit” can be counted a number of different ways. For example, if a page has 30 links on it, and one person goes to that page, it could be counted as 30 “hits”. This would mean that ByTheOwner.com received more than 173 million “hits” in July. ByTheOwner.com does not quote how many “hits” we receive because it is not a valid stat. Unique visitors and pageviews are the only real measure of website activity.

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AND

ByTheOwner.com has just formed a strategic partnership with Saskhouses.com. All Saskhouses.com listings (Approximately 360 active homes), we be listed on ByTheOwner.com. ByTheOwner.com’s 150,000 visitors per week will be able to view all of Saskhouses.com’s properties. This will provide national exposure for all Saskhouses’ listings. All homes listed on Saskhouses will automatically be listed on ByTheOwner.com. Anyone looking to list their home on ByTheOwner.com in Saskatchewan, can subscribe directly with Saskhouses.com. If anyone is looking to buy a home or sell a home in Saskatchewan, Saskhouses.com is the place to do it!

Saskhouses.com has been in business since 1999. In 2006, they helped sell 1057 properties in Saskatchewan and they listed more than $278 million dollars in real estate. So far in 2007, Saskhouses has sold 607 properties privately and listed more than $250 million dollars of properties.

The partership further increases ByTheOwner.com’s position as the largest FSBO website in Canada. ByTheOwner.com now has more than 4700 active properties for sale with no agents in Canada. This is almost twice as many active listings as any other Canadian FSBO company. ByTheOwner.com has SOLD more than 14,400 properties since 1997. Our SOLD statistics do not include homes sold on our partner’s (OKhomeseller.com ,Saskhouses.com) websites.

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ByTheOwner.com’s properties for sale can now take advantage of the 30 Million Facebook users!

On June 14th, ByTheOwner.com released our exclusive Facebook application. The application was built by our programmers and it allows our properties (Front photo and info) to be uploaded to Facebook.

Facebook is on it’s way to becoming the most visited website in the world. Currently there are 30 million users and there will be 50 million by the end of 2007. Here are the number of Facebook users in specific Canadian cities as of June 13th:

Toronto, ON - 641,221 (about 15% of the population)
Vancouver, BC - 281,030 (about 10% of the population)
Barrie, ON - 50,515 (about 40% of the population)
Kitchener, ON- 77,369 (about 20% of the population)
London, ON - 90,734 (about 25% of the population)
Ottawa, ON - 147,212
Hamilton, ON - 68,054
Kingston, ON - 35,285
Montreal, QC - 129,216

The ByTheOwner.com Facebook Application can be activated by clicking on the Facebook button in any listing.

After the listing has been uploaded, you can share the listing with your friends (and their friends) and you can place the home in the Facebook Marketplace and advertise it to everyone in your city.

Thanks to our ByTheOwner.com programmers who have worked very hard to get this up and running so quickly!

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