With stock available for sale down, Rightmove has reported its busiest-ever month with visits in January up 21m on the same month last year.

The portal also says that leads to agents and developers hit a new record of over 4.9m.

The uplift in traffic coincides with a well-documented drop in stock for sale, meaning it is likely that visitors could not find much in the way of new listings to look at.

Rightmove says there were over 127m visits last month, up almost 20% on January 2015 and surpassing the previous record of 118m set last August.

Phone and email leads beat the previous record set last July of over 4.8m.

Collectively the nation spent the equivalent of over 2,000 years browsing Rightmove in January. The busiest single day was Tuesday 26 with 4.7m visits.

Page views for the month hit a new record of 1.7bn, meaning people looked through over 1m more pages of property than in January 2015.

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