Retirement and Community Living

villages.com.au breaks 4,200 searches a day for a village community

Mar 07 2017 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Customer interest in downsizing to a village community just keeps growing! Traffic on our specialist portal villages.com.au reach 4,298 visits last Monday. For the last Quarter of 2016 our average was 3,800 visits each Monday – our peak traffic day.

This is an increase of 13% in three months. All up, 800,000 people searched villages.com.au last year which compares with just 25,000 village community homes being sold over the same 12 months.

Demand far exceeds supply!

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