“I am personally really worried about the variants and what it means for air travel right now,” Ms. Anderson said. But other brokers recommend a large dose of caution before jumping into the online market. “We’ve seen an explosion,” he said, adding that in the early months of the pandemic, creation of 3-D home tours on zillow.com increased 750 percent. DotLoop, a remote signing and notary service that Zillow acquired in 2015, has been one of the biggest pandemic sleepers. But even for those who prefer to see before they buy, new technologies are making the mortgage process much more streamlined.

Source: New York Times February 19, 2021 09:56 UTC