With the results of the 2024 U.S. election now known, some Americans are toying with the idea of moving north of the border.
U.S.-originated sessions on royallepage.ca – Royal LePage’s consumer real estate portal and the most-visited real estate company website in Canada – sharply increased the day following the 2024 presidential election.
Traffic from American users on the real estate website spiked 52% on Wednesday, November 6th, 2024, the day following the election of Donald Trump for a second time. This marks the highest number of U.S. users on the website in a single day year to date, and one of several spikes since the beginning of the election race that kicked off during the summer.
Traffic on the website during the week of the election (Week 45, November 4th to 10th) increased 70% year over year.
Days before voting took place, Royal LePage reported that visits by Americans to royallepage.ca more than doubled in the week of June 16th (Week 25), surging 104% week over week (67% year over year). The following week, after the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, weekly traffic peaked with an additional 4% increase in visitors over the week prior (112% over week 24 and 94% year over year).
Royallepage.ca recorded another noticeable single-day spike on July 15th – the same day president Donald Trump officially became the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election. This was also just two days after the first attempt on his life, which occurred during a rally in Pennsylvania.
Traffic levels from U.S. visitors have remained elevated on royallepage.ca since the first spike recorded in June.
For the full details of pre-election U.S. traffic on Royal LePage’s website, read this article.
