By increasing the demand for accommodation and boosting rents, the shift to remote work will have put some upward pressure on house prices. But while rents have seen an above-trend increase since the end of 2019, that would only have boosted house prices by an additional 2% at most. Rather, the fall in mortgage rates and rise in house price expectations explain most of the recent surge.
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