These are the most popular cities for buyers looking to move to another metro area

August 31,2020 | By Erickson Ocasio

With work-from-home becoming the new normal thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, more residents in expensive coastal cities like San Francisco and New York are looking to move to cheaper inland areas – accelerating a trend that has been going on for at least five years. According to proptech firm Redfin, 27.8% of its users looked to move to another metro area in July – up from 27.4% in the second quarter and 25.2% in July 2019. And their destinations of choice: Sacramento, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Veronica Clyatt, a Redfin agent in Pleasanton, a city just outside San Francisco, said that a lot of people moving away from the Bay Area have “had it in the pipeline for a while, and remote work is accelerating the process.” “People who can work remotely are re-examining where they want to live, and for most of them that means they're looking at places that are less expensive,” said Clyatt

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New Tools for Home Buyers as the Pandemic Upends Real Estate

July 19,2020 | By Erickson Ocasio

As homeowners rethink their surroundings and rush to relocate, companies are offering creative ways to help ease a fraught process. Working from home during the pandemic prompted Dan Feder to consider moving his family to another Los Angeles neighborhood to be closer to his son’s school. Dan Feder, a graphic designer, and his husband, Don Bacigalupi, a museum director, have lived in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles for two years. But they started looking to move closer to their teenage son’s school when pandemic lockdowns showed they could avoid a commute across town by working from home. Yet having moved from Chicago two years ago, they still felt that they had an outsider’s view of Southern California real estate. They worried, too, about making a mistake in an uncertain economy. “With so many unknown variables in the world, we wanted as much information as we could get before moving fo

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