In the first quarter of 2020, regardless of the large provincial city, buyers were still more numerous in the face of a decreasing volume of goods for sale.
Immediate corollary of this shortage market: prices continued to rise.
At a sustained rate in Lyon and Nantes, notable in Rennes and Toulouse and almost zero in Bordeaux, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice and Strasbourg.
But while professionals anticipated a cloudless spring, the Covid upset the forecasts.
Because the health crisis and confinement froze new sales for two months.
At the end of this very special period, the specter of a real estate crash, followed by a collapse in sales and prices, was feared.
In fact, none of this.
"After this constrained break, from mid-May the real estate market picked up at an even more sustained rate than before",
confides Laurent Vimont, president of Century 21. Better still: in the regions, the month of June was historic, as well
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