The coronavirus accelerated a "work from anywhere" revolution faster than anyone anticipated. This has significant implications for the real estate market. Employers and workers are embracing the freedom of where to live and work; and if that trend holds, a shift in real estate demand will occur on a global scale.

Investors sense an opportunity to buy/relocate in areas away from the urban office. With millions of workers now given the choice of where to live - the migration trends will be towards lower cost, safer and potentially more exotic, lifestyle-rich communities. As the tide shifts from expensive, dense urban cores, a flood of capital is expected to wash over places that were already garnering visits from digital nomads and the like.