A Covid-19 market update: Are people still looking at properties online?

A temporary drop in views

In our area, for example, clicks to properties advertised on Rightmove took a big dive in the week ending 8th April, a couple of weeks after the lockdown was announced. There was a 38% drop in the number of people clicking through to the full property details compared to the same time period last year. This was a big drop, given that previously the biggest anomaly was from mid-January to mid-February 2019 after the missed Brexit deadline which saw an average drop of 23% in people browsing properties.

But soon the clicks increased

Slowly but surely since the end of April, there’s been a steady increase on clicks, and in the week ending 25th May 2020,  there’s been a 2% increase on the same week last year – which indicates that other polls suggesting that people looking to move prior to lockdown were still planning on going ahead at a later date is completely right.

So, it’s safe to say that if you’re looking to move home, now is as good a time as any to put your property on the market – the audience is certainly there!