Despite pandemic, housing market in central Kentucky sky rockets and last updated 2020-12-31 19:45:12-05 LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the housing demand has skyrocketed in central Kentucky. Houses in Lexington are on the market one minute and gone the next. "I've had some this spring and summer and early fall, they're not lasting 24 hours. They're not lasting 12 hours," Devon Ramage, Lexington Real Estate Agent at The Brokerage, said. Ramage says the most popular houses on the market are in the $150,000 to $300,000 range. Low interest rates and low inventory ...