The pandemic has played a key role in creating a real estate market across the country we have never seen before and likely never will again. But as we hopefully put the worst of Covid-19 behind us, with Sydney out of lockdown on Monday for what residents are being told is the last time, and Melbourne set to follow suit, some major components of the way things have become, will remain.

Ray Ellis, chief executive of First National, Australia’s third largest real estate agency, believes buyers and sellers’ willingness to ingratiate themselves with easier and expedited ways of transacting have change property in the country forever.