As the post-Christmas listing boom filtered through to mortgage enquiries, last week saw the busiest start to a calendar year for mortgage searches on record, the latest data from Twenty7tec has revealed.
Wednesday 3rd January and Thursday 4th January were the two busiest days ever at the beginning of the calendar year.
Wednesday was the busiest day of the week, seeing a total uplift in mortgage searches of 5.53% compared with the same week last year last, seeing more than 80,000 mortgage searches, and putting it in the top 50 days ever for search volumes on the Twenty7tec platform.
Nathan Reilly, director of Twenty7tec, said: “2024 has certainly got off to a good start.
“Following the news that Rightmove saw a record number of homes putting their house up for sale on Boxing Day, enquiries are flooding through.”
He added: “Last year, we saw that January was the second busiest month of the year for first time buyers and January, February, and March were the three busiest months of the year for first time buyers mortgage searches.
“If things keep on going the way they are, we might see new records being made across the board for mortgage enquiries.”
