Maine's Housing Market Upended By New Residents Arriving During Pandemic
/ West Virginia transplant Dan Valente (left) and Bisson Movers agent Preston Hughes at a Brunswick storage facility. The number of people relocating to Maine ramped up sharply in 2020. Many were fleeing denser urban settings and lured by the prospects of working remotely from their new homes. In doing so, the COVID-19 refugees of 2020 have upended the state's housing market — and possibly its long-running population trends as well. There's not a lot of information about who, exactly, moved to Maine in 2020, or how long they plan to stay. But data compiled by the Maine Realtors' Association...
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