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520. The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home

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Office Vacancies in the United States - What's the Long-Term Impact?

The office real estate sector is worth over $1 trillion. If we take our estimate for the value decline in New York City and extrapolate that to the entire country, we would estimate a long-term impact of $453 billion. A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found that the shift to remote work accounts for more than half of overall house price growth.

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