According to Genworth's survey, 56 per
cent of consumers surveyed across Canada feel that now is a good time to be buying a home.
For all of Canada, only nine per
cent of consumers surveyed expressed negative opinions about the prospects for house prices in their community.
Not exact matches
Of the moms
surveyed, only 24 per
cent said they'd feel comfortable using their phone to make payments in store, while the male and young
consumers were split.
The 2009 Edelman goodpurpose
Consumer Study, which
surveyed 6,000
consumers in 10 countries, revealed that 57 per
cent of consumers chose a brand or company because
of its CSR initiatives.
It is important to note that the retail trade
survey covers only around 40 per
cent of consumer spending and that other recent indicators
of consumption have been more positive.
The private sector economists are
surveyed for only a selective number
of aggregate economic and financial indicators: real gross domestic product (GDP) growth; GDP inflation, nominal GDP;, the 3 - month treasury bill rate;, the 10 - year government bond rate;, the unemployment rate; the,
consumer price index; the exchange rate (US
cents / Cdn $); and finally, and U.S. real GDP growth.
A recent
survey conduced by e-Dilaog, a GSI Commerce Marketing Services division, reveals that 67 per
cent of consumers in Asia - Pacific have made a purchase in a store or over the phone as a result
of receiving a marketing email.
The Livingston
survey shows 55 per
cent of small business and 60 per
cent of medium - sized businesses will either be forced to pass down the cost
of tariffs to
consumers, making their businesses less competitive, or eat the cost and reduce their business investment.
Rising Popularity
of origin chocolate A
survey of consumers in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, UK and the US, published by Barry Callebaut in March this year, suggested that 42 per
cent of respondents had already discovered origin chocolate, 26 per
cent more than in 2006, and one fifth
of all
consumers eat it at least once a month.
Only 30 per
cent of websites in the
survey asked
consumers to complete a health questionnaire prior to purchase.
In its Books and
Consumer Survey 2015, Nielsen Bookscan — the principal auditor
of British reading habits — found that 46 per
cent of all books bought in 2014 were for males (i.e. men and boys).
Of the moms
surveyed, only 24 per
cent said they'd feel comfortable using their phone to make payments in store, while the male and young
consumers were split.
Just 16 per
cent of consumers are using coupon sites to save money on things like rental cars, hotels or airfare, according to the
survey.
The research organization Mintel found that 57 per
cent of surveyed consumers are suspicious
of companies or products that only have positive online reviews.
The
survey also showed that 38 per
cent of consumers were concerned by a no - returns policy, whilst 32 per
cent felt downloadable content was too expensive.
The Ipsos Reid
survey conducted for lawyers.com, an online legal resource centre from LexisNexis Canada that helps
consumers and small businesses find lawyers and legal information, reveals that 48 per
cent of Canadians have lived with a partner to whom they were not married.
With 85 per
cent of consumers reading online reviews for local businesses (BrightLocal 2013 Local
Consumer Review
Survey), real estate professionals can now also benefit from the marketing power
of online reviews.
The majority
of consumers surveyed in the study said a four to five per
cent real estate commission is a more reasonable fee than six per
cent.
«
Consumer intentions across the five major markets
surveyed remain strong, with eight per
cent of households thinking seriously about buying a home this year,» says Bob Dugan, chief economist at CMHC, in a news release.
A series
of national
consumer surveys conducted by Harris Decima and Angus Reid for PropertyGuys.com revealed an underlying and pervasive sentiment: the majority
of respondents polled thought that 5 per
cent commission was too expensive a cost when selling their property.
According to a recent
survey by ERA Real Estate in the United States, 29 per
cent of consumers aged 50 and older would choose talk show host Oprah Winfrey as their celebrity real estate agent over the real estate mogul.
The
survey found there are significant regional preferences for the types
of recreational properties people wish to buy: —
Consumers in Quebec prefer to purchase chalets (39 per
cent).
The first example statistic given: • «52 per
cent of those
surveyed incorrectly think buyer and seller representation agreements are standardized...» If what is being suggested here, is that real estate professionals are telling
consumers that minimum time frames are applicable when they're not, then we should be clear that such is the case — ergo the issue.