A record year for GolfCommunityReviews, thanks to you

        GolfCommunityReviews.com had its best year ever in terms of readership in 2009.  Buoyed by a late Christmas present on December 28, when 1,600 Tiger Woods scandal-obsessed readers clicked over from an NBC Sports blog site, we racked up a total of nearly 40,000 “unique” visitors to the site last

year and doubled that in total visits.  The NBC site “Out of Bounds” had referenced our own coverage of l’affair Woods and its potential impact on the upscale Cliffs Communities in the Carolinas.  Woods’ face is all over billboards in the Asheville area, promoting the Cliffs High Carolina project whose course the golfer is designing.

        We were most gratified that our readers accessed nearly a half million pages of our totally original content.  Before the Woods-skewed lofty December figures, the universally great golf-playing months of August and October produced the largest number of visitors, demonstrating that a loop around the course provokes dreams of a permanent home on the course.  January was the worst month for traffic to the site, perhaps because we are all trying to figure out how to pay for holiday presents and when a six-figure investment in a new home is farthest from our thoughts.  November, for similar reasons perhaps, produced the second-lowest readership, when strategies on how to pay for a vacation or permanent golf home give way to strategies for how to pay for those upcoming gifts.

        These are ambiguous times for those considering a home on the course.  Prices for southern golf homes are at their lowest in over a decade, but so too is the value of the home we must sell before we

can move to that dream home on the course.  Currently, I am working actively with couples from Connecticut, California, Michigan and elsewhere who understand there may be no better time than now to consider a move.  In some cases, their primary homes’ values are 50% less than what they were at peak; in a few cases, their homes are worth less than they paid.  But they know this is a great time to look at properties in the southern U.S.  And it doesn’t cost anything to look.

        Contact me and we can begin to look together and build a plan for you, even if a move is years away.  There is never a fee or obligation for my services.

        Happy New Year and best wishes,

 

Larry Gavrich

Founder & Editor