I was recently on Google trends and found an interesting comparison between apartments for rent search queries and homes for rent search queries and their search volume for the last 3 years.

Homes for rent search volume almost surpassed apartments for rent search volume in the first part of 2007. I forecast that by early 2008 search volume for homes for rent will surpass that of apartments for rent and here are some reasons why.

Reasons why homes for rent will surpass apartments in search queries here.