Overseas homes hunt

THE volume of searches for homes located overseas has surged, a property website said.

Searches on Rightmove Overseas were up by 33% in May compared with May 2019. In April, earlier on in the coronavirus lockdown, searches for overseas homes were also up compared with a year earlier, by 18%, Rightmove said.

Spain, France and Portugal have been leading the uplift in overseas property searches made from the UK.