A study shows that if the Covid-19 has given many city dwellers a desire for greenery, they have mainly looked for houses a few kilometers around their home.
For the urban exodus, we will have to wait a little longer. If with the health crisis, we have read that many city dwellers wanted to leave the city in search of greenery and therefore aspired to settle in the countryside, a study of Best Agents and Housing, highlighted by Le Figarocontrasts this finding.
Because the real winners would rather be the peri-urban areas: if city dwellers looking for a new real estate project dream of a garden, they do not seem ready to completely give up the city and often search for properties in the same geographical area.
Get away while keeping your habits
Thus, for 60% of respondents, mobility intentions are in favor of the same department. And as many buyers (60%) do not want to go more than 30 minutes from their current home. As proof: in the same study, if 54% of Parisians questioned claim to want to leave the city (11% more than before the pandemic), half of them intend to stay in le-de-France.
While seeking more greenery, city dwellers do not seem to not wanting to give up the advantages of an urban lifestyle. A desire that is reflected in prices: the inner and outer suburbs have indeed seen their prices continue to climb while those of Paris plunged (respectively, +0.8% and +4.4% in 1 year against -2% Intramural).
As far as the types of property sought are concerned, no surprise: houses are popular, even more so if they are located on the outskirts of a big city. The prices of these properties, which benefit from the attractiveness of the city while offering calm, are up 19.9% since June 2020, notes Best Agents. If the rural sectors are also experiencing a price increase, it remains more moderate (+12.5%).