Does Anybody Know Where Buyers & Sellers Come From?

You can click on just about any real estate blog/website/vendor website and get some variation of the following statistic:

"According to the 2007 National Association of REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, 84% of all homebuyers used the Internet as an information source.An astounding 84% of ALL buyers identified the Internet as a source in their home search. This percentage amount included 87% of first-time buyers, 82% of repeat buyers, 79% of new home buyers and 85% of buyers of previously owned homes."

As the internet is a very active medium, it seems to me that a statistic that is from 2007 is about as relevant as a coupon for buggy whips, a webcast from a sundial watching convention, or a tweet from some jock who just had chicken and peas for dinner.

I believe that the number is more like 100% or at least 98.5% but don't have any empirical data to back this up. Does anyone out there have any real current data, I'd be eternally grateful.

brgds

mike