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