Rightmove has announced a string of new records with visits in January up 21 million compared to the same period last year! Enquiries to agents and developers hit a new record of over 4.9 million. There were over 127 million visits last month, up almost 20 per cent compared to January 2015, and surpassing the previous record of 118 million set in August 2015.
Email and phone enquiries hit over 4.9 million for the first time ever, a 15 per cent increase on last January, and higher than July’s previous record of 4.8 million.
The portal claims that collectively the nation spent the equivalent of over 2,000 years browsing Rightmove in January alone, and the busiest day was Tuesday January 26 with 4.7 million visits.
Page views for the month hit a new record of 1.7 billion, meaning people looked through over one million more pages of property than in January 2015.
