Rural Housing Demand Increases (Galena: mover, houses, schools)

[dtcbnd03]

The behavioral shift due to covid will also impact housing. Some good news for those of you looking to sell a rural home. This may continue as more jobs and schools switch to online and e-learning too.

We have seen that people are more interested in that house at the foot of the mountains by the lake,” Glenn Kelman said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” “Rural demand is much stronger right now than urban demand, and that’s a flip from where it’s been for the longest time, where everybody wanted to live in the city. We’ll see how it comes back, but there seems to be a profound, psychological change among consumers who are looking for houses.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/17/redf...ronavirus.html

[BLS2753]

If there's any good to come out of this, it would be making the social distancing laws so onerous, that people would willingly disburse to less populated areas. Having a large state with 12 million population, with 9 million crammed into one corner, makes no sense.

[OakParkForestParkExile]

I thought about moving to rural Illinois. But as an urbanite, the thought of being sprayed overhead by Roundup isn’t very appealing. It’s hard to social distance from a crop duster plane.

[mjstef]

God help me i'm in the Wisconsin Northwoods and it's a sea of HELLinois plates 2 weeks early!!!

[jasperhobbs]

Originally Posted by mjstef

God help me i'm in the Wisconsin Northwoods and it's a sea of HELLinois plates 2 weeks early!!!

Why in the world are you on an Illinois forum if you have found paradise?

[Bamaman1]

I once lived on the Indiana state line and worked in Illinois when straight out of college.

Living in rural Illinois is in no way desirable for me. The state is so flat and downright boring outside the big cities. I've seen enough corn to last me a lifetime.

Come to think of it, there's no city I care to live in there either.

[TheTimidBlueBars]

Way too early to tell if there's gonna be a lasting shift in housing preferences because of the pandemic. But if there is a rural shift, Illinois is gonna be way down the list of places that benefits from it. People like mountains, hills, lakes, and forests and Illinois has very little of that.

[Hiruko]

The article is misleading and there is no real evidence to support this. Redfin is not a market mover or maker.

[jasperhobbs]

Originally Posted by Bamaman1

I once lived on the Indiana state line and worked in Illinois when straight out of college.

Living in rural Illinois is in no way desirable for me. The state is so flat and downright boring outside the big cities. I've seen enough corn to last me a lifetime.

Come to think of it, there's no city I care to live in there either.

The state must have made enough on an impression on you that you would come back to the forum and post years later.

[Sunbiz1]

Originally Posted by TheTimidBlueBars

Way too early to tell if there's gonna be a lasting shift in housing preferences because of the pandemic. But if there is a rural shift, Illinois is gonna be way down the list of places that benefits from it. People like mountains, hills, lakes, and forests and Illinois has very little of that.

For kicks I just looked in the only place with hills, NW IL near Galena.
Developers have long since bought the good land, and are asking too much.
I find this to be true in much of the country, land is simply overvalued.
Wish we could begin anew, using the 19th century homestead act.