A look back over 2011's most successful columns
After three weeks of zero tasking, it is finally time to kick off the new year.
We’d like to wish you a very happy 2012 and to share with you some of the stats from the Matusik Missive throughout 2011.
You may already have some sense that the Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. But what you won’t know is that the Matusik Missive was viewed about 89,000 times in 2011, which means that, if it were an exhibit in the Louvre, it would take about four days for that many people to see it.
In 2011, there were 68 new posts, bringing our archived collection to 149.
The busiest day of the year was October 19th with 2,196 views of this post.
The top five Missives for the year:
1. Overseas buyers must be encouraged to help our housing market
2. A tale of two Queensland buildings: An investment property's worth should be determined by income
3. Investors should consider buying NRAS properties
4. The most overvalued in the world!
Our readers came from near and far. Most, of course, were from Australia, followed by the United States and New Zealand.
But 2011 also saw readers from:
Asia – Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Malaysia;
The Middle East – United Arab Emirates;
Europe – The United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Poland and Italy;
Africa – South Africa,Tanzania, Sudan and Algeria;
North America – Canada, Cayman Islands, Mexico and the British Virgin Islands; and
South America – Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Ecuador.
Proud of us! We are chuffed – being so bleeding edge and all. But we must admit that until yesterday, we didn’t know that the British Virgin Islands even existed.
Thanks for following the Matusik Missive. Please feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues – or send us their contact email addresses and we’ll ask them if they’d like to be added to the Missive list.
We welcome your comments – always! Just keep them clean (well, somewhat) and be honest.
We’d like to think we can make a difference – and with your readership and support, we will.
Oh… and before we leave you, don’t forget about our 3rd Home offer. It still applies, but not for much longer.
Now back to our work spasm.
PS Zero-tasking means doing nothing. Bleeding edge is something even more cutting edge than cutting edge and a work spasm is the productive but short period of time after a holiday. Two days back today and bring on Easter and quick smart!
Michael Matusik is the director of independent property advisory Matusik Property Insights. Matusik has helped over 500 new residential developments come to fruition and writes the weekly Matusik's Missive.