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Fancy A Sea View For Your Zoom Meetings?

THE INTERNET HAS TRANSFORMED our societies, economies and way of life. While industrialization saw people moving across towns, cities and provinces to be closer to the workplace, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted everything. Around the world, city dwellers are moving to suburbia, choosing more living space over gridlock and a sea view for Zoom meetings.

“The reality of the Covid-19 pandemic and the limits and restrictions it has brought with it, many companies have had to change the way they do business. The interest rate on buying a home is at its lowest in 50 years,” says Marcél du Toit, CEO of Leadhome in South Africa. “As a result of this change, a new type of ‘migration’ has emerged: semigration.”

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