25: How Work-From-Home “Hotspots” Drove the Housing Market Even Higher

On The Market · Aug 12, 2022 · 34m

What do work-from-home employees and the housing market have to do with each other? Surprisingly, a lot. At the start of 2020, as the first lockdowns were rolling in, many companies made the wise decision to allow their workers to temporarily work-from-home. As temporary became seemingly eternal, more employers started developing permanent work-from-home regulations, allowing employees to, on average, work at their residence for about half of the workweek.

With this enhanced flexibility, employees were more likely to move to places their jobs didn’t confine them to. If they were used to snow…