'Cape Breton if Trumps Wins' draws thousands to real estate listings

The campaign to lure Americans to Cape Breton continues to gain momentum.

The website "Cape Breton if DonaldTrump Wins" is attracting international attention.ByFridayafternoon, the site had457,000 visits andtens of thousands of people are checking out the island's real estate.

Point2Homes, a real estate portal based in Saskatoonnoticed a jump in the number of visits to Cape Breton real estate pages.

Jacquelyn Bauer, director of Point2Homescustomer relations, saidthe average number of page visits usually hovers around200 a day.

"We noticed that after the website went live, that they jumped to over 20,000 visits daily," she said, "and that trend is still holding.The majority of those visits are coming from the U.S."

Some visitorsare doing a little more than browsing.

"A couple of dozen potential home buyers have emailed agents," said Bauer.

She saidthe low Canadian dollar is also a selling point.

Bauer is not sure how significant the Trumppage interestwill be in the long runbut nonetheless, she said,it is a trend that local real estate agents could take advantage of.