With lockdown almost over, many people are feeling bad that they didn’t put their enforced time at home to better use, by learning Mandarin or some other kind of self-improvement. Luckily, we have data analytics to tell us what we did do — and one of those things was to spend a remarkable amount of time on Rightmove. British people spent a total of 15.9 billion minutes on the property search site in 2020, a 31 per cent increase on the previous year.
That number is even more notable given that the housing market was closed during the first lockdown last year. Since last summer, however, the numbers of house sales and prices have soared. According to the latest Nationwide survey, house prices rose by
