2008 Poll Review

The little one is finally asleep for a Saturday morning nap. I thought I'd take a look at the old blog. Holy Crap! 215 comments, better write a new post.

First, from my SFH sales monitoring, it looks like January will have an average selling price of around $525000, with the median coming in around $475000. I'd estimate around 130 SFH sales for the month.

I've been meaning for the past month to review the poll I put out there at the beginning of 2008. Of course, it hasn't happened, till now. The results were posted in my January 9, 2008 blog.

At the beginning of 2008, 53% of you were pessimistic about 2008. It all depends on how you look at it. For me, it was a good year. How about for you?

73% thought that Victoria's average SFH selling price would be lower in 2008 than 2007. It wasn't. The average for 2007 was $565904. The average for 2008 was $585701.

52% thought that Canada would enter a recession in 2008. I believe that remains to be seen, as Stats Canada has not released numbers for December yet.

95% knew that the U.S. would enter a recession in 2008.

78% thought that the loonie would remain above par with the greenback. Nope.

13% of us were close to predicting how high oil would rise - $150. The final peak for the year was just over $147 (correct me if I'm wrong).

62% thought we'd go to the polls in 2008. We almost went twice!

92% believed the next U.S. president would be a democrat. How right they were.

January sales numbers come out in a couple days. They should be interesting. Have a great weekend.

2008 Poll Results

Very interesting results from this last week's polls. Of course, it wasn't very scientific. But, that's ok. Here they are...

53% (33 of 62) of you are pessimistic about 2008. I'm sorry to hear that. Pray tell...

73% (53 of 72) believe that Victoria's average SFH selling price will be lower in 2008 than 2007. Let's hope so.

52% (36 of 69) think that Canada's economy will go into recession in 2008. Are you the pessimistic ones?

95% (66 of 69) know that the U.S. economy will go into recession this year.

78% (54 of 69) think that the loonie will remain above par with the greenback. This may hasten our recession.

33% (22 of 65) think oil will hit $100 this year. So far, you're right.
23% (15 of 65) think $110.
29% (19 of 65) think $120. Hmm...
13% (9 of 65) are shooting for the stars - $150. Or maybe not. Did you all vote late in the polls?

62% (39 of 62) believe that we'll be going to the federal polls this year.

92% (61 of 66) think that the oval office will be headed by a democrat. Not very surprising.

Great! Thanks for taking part. Feel free to comment on the results.