The mortgage boom has not been reflected in online traffic for home insurance websites, research from find.co.uk, an internet directory for financial websites, has revealed.
Find.co.uk managing director John Perceval said the results had shown a surprisingly small market for online home insurance.
"The interest in mortgages continues unabated with a high volume of online enquiries and comparisons. It is, however, interesting to note that the mortgage boom is not producing a similar increase in buying home insurance online.
"Many people arrange their home insurance when they mortgage or re-mortgage as part of a package rather then as a stand along purchase," he said.
Research by find.co.uk into the use of financial websites during October found that the most common type of insurance product looked at on the internet was car insurance. Travel, pet, motorbike and breakdown insurance were the next most popular types.
