2020 MADE HISTORY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!
2020 was indisputably a year for the real estate history books! The onset of the global pandemic in a year of stops and starts. It led to a shift in how we conduct our personal and professional lives. The navigation through the pandemic witnessed a social and cultural movement that restructured societies, how we conduct business, adjusted to online learning and experienced a shift from large urban centers to rural small communities. The housing market went from cold to hot as the average price of existing home rose on a U.S. average. It was not necessarily the once hot cities and urban hot spots that dominated. The resiliency of the real estate industry was one of the biggest surprises of the year. The large scale shift to working from home created a shift from homes close to work to locations that did not require commuting. Families sought out more spacious properties to achieve a better work-life balance. The home migration created a hot market outside of the once hot urban