According to the Ifo Institute, working from home and rising housing costs are causing many city dwellers to move. Since the beginning of the corona crisis, 14 percent of part-time or full-time city dwellers have moved away, and another ten percent are planning to move within a year, the Ifo Institute said on the basis of a representative survey. For employees in the home office, the effect is a good ten percentage points higher. “Among the people who left the big city, 38 percent moved to the commuter belt,” only 14 percent to a small town or to the country. Last autumn, the economic researchers, together with the real estate portal immowelt, carried out a representative survey of more than 12,000 people in Germany.
Home office – off to the commuter belt – economy
