Where Every Country and U.S. State Wants to Buy Property

Vivid Maps
1 min readJun 22, 2023

Moving to a new country is an exciting opportunity. According to the UN’s World Migration Report, 281 million people (or 3.6% of the world’s population) lived outside their country of origin in 2020.

But which countries do residents of each world nation want to buy property in?

MoverDB.com used online search data tools to analyze the number of searches for properties in every country around the world and identify the most popular place in each country among foreign property hunters. And then, we did the same, looking at which states each state wants to move to. The analysis of global search data reveals that people in 34 countries have their eye on a place in the sun, as houses for sale in Spain are the most frequently searched for in our research. France and Canada (both 13 countries) are also popular for “homes for sale” searches.

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