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However personally devastating and disruptive the Covid 19 pandemic may have been, it preceded —if not propelled—a major uptick in real estate acquisitions in the period immediately following.
“Of course, Covid was a nasty virus, it interrupted our lives, but for real estate? A boom,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors.