In real estate, even more so.

We stumbled on two Inman News stories that caught our attention – one reporting that new-home buyers are more satisfied in 2007 than in years prior, and another linking consumer confidence to economic recovery. Clearly, the housing crisis and mortgage meltdown (not to mention its continual fall-out) are on everyone’s minds these days, and we’re all eager to find a solution that will be more than a mere panacea for the broken economy. A full 44 percent of us believe that the housing market will improve with the election of the new president, but we can all agree that long-term confidence and satisfaction will require more than election-year politics.

As our trusted elected officials do their part to pull us out of this mess, we’ll do ours. We are thrilled that homebuyers’ satisfaction is up – that is news that every person contemplating the biggest purchase of their lives needs to hear. It’s also something that doesn’t just happen. From the beginning, it has been our mission at Roost.com to equip homebuyers with the most accurate data on homes for sale, which in turn boosts their confidence that they are seeing absolutely every home available in their market. When you have the freshest, most reliable and comprehensive data at your fingertips – straight out of the same MLS your Realtor accesses – even the most skittish homebuyer can achieve a level of confidence in their home purchase that will prove essential to the health of the economy.