*DataPoint* If Remote Work Becomes Commonplace, What Happens to Real Estate in Big Cities?

SalesForce, Microsoft, and Twitter have all extended their work from home policies either indefinitely or for the remainder of the year. To say that housing is expensive in the Bay Area would be an understatement. Frank ponders what will happen to the real estate market if you only go to the office once or twice a week? Or not at all? Why spend money to be near a place you no longer go to daily?

Transcript (AI Generated) Hey, what's up is Frank here from data driven, the podcast or we explore the emerging fields. Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. So uhm, today this morning. Actually, I read that Salesforce is allowing their workforce to work from home for the remainder of the Year this. Got me thinking. Uh, about other companies that have done that. Microsoft has at least last time I checked, working from home or going into the office is voluntary through at least October. It might be extended. Who knows? Twitter is said that they are going to make remote work possible indefinitely. I'm not sure Google stances, but I think when you see the big tech industries, the Big Giants in the tech industry is really what I want to say. Is they're all embracing work from home that is going to have enormous. I think implications across, well, every industry, but I think one of the ones that will be particularly impacted. Given that number of Bay Area Giants have kind of jumped on, this will be real estate real estate in the San Francisco area is notoriously expensive, and it's the stuff of almost jokes in terms of, you know, shack and cause a couple $1,000,000 and they'll be a bidding war for said Shack. I really wonder. Watt That will do for real estate, because if you could you could stay in California. Maybe move 3 four hours away from San Francisco or the Bay. And you can get a house that's more affordable. And if you are going to be working remotely indefinitely, or even when things kind of go back to normal, whatever, that will look like. You probably only be required to come in less than five days a week. Uh, you know, maybe a once a week, 4 hour commute. Each way maybe that won't be so bad. Uh, maybe maybe? I mean, that's really going to. I think that's really going to impact realestate ticular Lee in places like Silicon Valley and San Francisco, and possibly other places like New York, but I'm really curious to see what the data will say. So if you have that bad of a commute once a week, I think most people would be willing to tolerate that for more affordable housing an. You know, I don't know. I think that's really going to impact kind of not the high end 'cause I think people are always going to want to have some property there, but I really think it's really going to change. Kind of the lower to mid range of realestate all over. Let me not just San Francisco, but I can easily see this applying to New York, Seattle. Places where. Technology companies have really driven up the real estate recently. I don't know, you know, and you also have the opportunity that you know if you don't have to go into the office at all, why not move to Nebraska? You know where land is much cheaper than anywhere in California? I really think that when the dust shakes out of this and now that remote work is much more accepted, I think it's. I think we're going to see changes or unanticipated changes. I always like to say that one of the most powerful forces in the universe is...