A recent National Association of Realtors member survey shows that those 60 and older make up the largest real estate blogging population in Massachusetts.
A paltry 1% of Realtors in Massachusetts have a blog, compared to the national average of 4%. According to a new report from Gartner, less than 2% of all Internet users are frequent content contributors. Between 10% and 15% contribute occasionally and more than 50% are reading or watching what the communities are discussing (free-loaders?).
The rate at which the number of blogs doubles has slowed over the past several quarters (according to Technorati), so it is apparent at this point that those who are blogging now will make up the core of content contributors moving forward, and we will only see slight gains in additional bloggers in the future (granted, the numbers are still large, but only 13% of Realtors in Massachusetts who don’t currently have a blog say they plan to blog in the future). The lopsided numbers of Massachusetts versus the rest of the country is somewhat surprising given the strong base of tech-savvy web innovators in Boston.
From a Boston Condos perspective, the several top blogs in Boston real estate offer a “feet on the street” look at what is really going on in the market. The great thing about blogs, especially Boston condo related, is that they give you a timely and informative look at the happenings right down the street.
Keith Munsell 
