Online interest 'steady' - buy to let mortgages

06 July 2009

Online interest in buy to let mortgages has remained steady over the first half of 2009, according to This is Money.

The financial news provider explains that it uses visits to its buy to let pages as a rule-of-thumb guide to how many property investors are interested in the market at any one time.

Google's figures for search queries relating to buy to let mortgages are used to back this up and complete the analysis used for the Buy to Let Barometer.

While searches typically peak in January and trail off towards the middle of the year, This is Money notes that 2009 figures have been largely steady.

In April, 2,101 visitors went to the buy to let pages of the news site, followed by 2,024 in May and 2,033 in June.

"The figure spiked in January and fell and has hovered a little above 2,000 since then," writes editor Andrew Oxlade.

On the launch of the Buy to Let Barometer in April, Mr Oxlade pointed out that search volumes for the topic had increased to a level "considerably higher" than at the same point in 2008.

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