The importance of urban regions, before and after COVID-19

Recent data underwrites a so called ‘urban exodus’: a record number of households moved away from the Randstad conurbation to other parts of the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine whether the tides are really turning or whether living in cities is  here to stay, our research paper “The importance of urban regions, before and after COVID-19” places the recent relocation trend in a historical context and studies the underlying fundamentals of the residential market.