In Milan, the choice of a house goes by 'bike distance'

In Milan, the search for a home also involves cycling. Not only as a means of transport, but as an actual criterion when choosing a home. This is the finding of Immobiliare.it on the basis of the search criteria set by its users: 25.6% of people who set the option "distance by bike from a point on the map" (the platform's tool that allows you to set the area in which you want to see the ads) are looking for a house in Milan.

This is nothing new: already in 2022, the Lombard capital held the record, albeit with a slightly lower percentage (23%). A figure that even this year shows a clear gap with other metropolises such as Rome (5.1%) and Turin (3.6%).

In fourth place comes Naples with 2.6 per cent of searches, the only southern city in the top ten. Bologna, historically associated with travel on two wheels, stops at 2.2 per cent. Completing the ranking between 1.6& and 1.8% are Vicenza, Brescia, Monza, followed in closing by Florence and Verona (both 1.4%).

Budgets also offer some indication of demand characteristics. On the rental front, more than 40% of those interested in a 'cyclist-friendly' home are looking for properties between 800 and 1,000 euro per month, while 28% are concentrated in the range between 600 and 800 euro. The highest brackets remain marginal: those looking for homes over two thousand euros per month account for less than 2% of the total.

Instead, intermediate values prevail for purchasing. More than 72% of searches are concentrated between 100 thousand and 300 thousand euro, while 14% are looking at properties between 300 thousand and 400 thousand euro. Here, too, the high-end segment remains residual: homes between Euro 600 thousand and Euro 800 thousand attract less than 2% of users.