WESTON-SUPER-MARE is home to the highest number of people interested in buying or selling a property, new data indicates.

House Buy Fast analysed the locations of people searching Google for mortgage deals over the past seven days.

And the Somerset town, where property prices have risen by 3% in the past year, came out on top.

Other areas in the top five areas in England were Rayleigh in Essex; Shirley in south London, Pinner in north-west London, and Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.

Commenting, Jonathan Rolande, founder of House Buy Fast, said: “This data shows that despite the cost of living crisis, interest remains high in many places to move and to find the best deals. Right now securing a mortgage or switching to a better deal is occupying the minds of rising numbers of people. Coastal locations coming out on top underlines the continued interest in these parts of the country.

“Since the pandemic demand for properties by the sea has sky-rocketed, not least because of the appeal to turn them into holiday lets.”

In Scotland, Lasswade, a village nine miles south of Edinburgh, headed the hot property list for Scotland.

Dalgety Bay in Fife was in second place, followed by Neilston, south-west of Glasgow, then Coatbridge to the north-east of Glasgow.

In fourth place was Queensferry, to the west of Edinburgh, then Dunbar, on the coast in East Lothian.

Rhosneigr in the south-west of Anglesey, north Wales, topped the list of mortgage searchers in Wales. Undy in Monmouthshire came next, followed by Southgate on the Gower Peninsula to the south-west of Swansea, then Gorslas in Llanelli and Pontarddulais, north of Swansea in fifth place.

Related searches in the survey suggested that people are concerned about the rising cost of home loans, as “mortgage calculator” featured three times in the survey for England.

They also show that most people searched for a NatWest mortgage more than other firms, just ahead of queries for buy to let mortgages.