Another effect of Covid. This time it hits housing stock, and is poised to change the real estate market for homes and offices. The real main accused is smartworking, which exploded with the advancement of the health and economic emergency; which, among the many ways of being applied, has had a not exactly hidden consequence on Italian cities: the flight towards small towns, perhaps in internal areas, where life is not hectic and where there is no lack of large spaces or gardens. But where to work remotely is of course possible. the concept is simple: if I have to work from home, away from the office, who cares how far away that is. However, these are not just anticipations of what will be, since - as explained by the president of Confedilizia Giorgio Spaziani Testa - the "trend has already started ".
The escape from the cities
for "who can do it in whole, or at least in part - highlighted in an analysis made for the Res Day 'Real estate strategies', and dedicated to the real estate situation after a year of emergency from Covid -19 - "
the real estate market will change
, both the housing and non-residential, commercial and office sectors". Two elements to take into consideration - that "are already happening and will happen more and more in the future" - precisely because houses and offices are "two sectors" that "in Italy are particularly linked, often intertwined also due to our historical conformation": the first, for "housing there is an ongoing trend, and let's see how it will evolve,to
move to small towns, to larger homes, with open spaces
; the second, the reduction of work spaces in a physical sense and who instead only reduces the spaces intended for employees and collaborators and decides to dedicate them to something else.
To be honest, according to Spaziani Testa, the transfer "to small towns, which
can lead to the rebirth of certain internal areas
", may have" repercussions in terms of prices and the number of sales on small or medium-sized cities in our country. "And, to buy a house, if the government offered help to young people it wouldn't be so bad. the confirmation of measures in favor of the purchase of the first house by young couples could have a positive effect ", notes Spaziani Testa, recalling that this is discussed in the Def. And that although there are no legislative texts yet, on the one hand it would be in fact "a support to those who are unable to deal with the purchase due to the impossibility of enjoying a first sum available", that is an advance, "thus almost reaching a 100% loan"; on the other it would be, " also on the psychological level, an extra boost to purchase "of the "first home through a state guarantee on the part that many young people are unable to cover". In the city or in a small town.