Real Estate European Real Estate: 3,200 Europeans on their work-from-home, housing intentions and cities
WFH is working in Sweden and Germany. Results from a UBS Evidence Lab survey show that 82% of Swedes and 71% of Germans say WFH meets their needs
Work-from-home (WFH) meets completely or well the needs of 82% of Swedes and 71% of Germans...
How do you rate your current housing conditions (i.e. access stable connection, equipment etc.) in terms of meeting your needs of WFH?
3,200 residents surveyed across Germany and Sweden
We used UBS Evidence Lab data to ask 3,200 Europeans – 2,000 residents in Germany and 1,200 in Sweden about their housing intentions, plan to WFH, consume, relocate (i.e. within and away from cities)
Key takeaways...
The survey is wide-ranging with answers to 108 questions. For German and Swedish real estate, we note three trends.
- "WFH works": for 82% of Swedes and 71% of Germans, WFH meets their needs completely or well, and they are likely to WFH more.
- Will WFH then lead to reverse urbanisation? We find no such evidence: a stable 6% of Berliners are very likely to move out of Berlin (12m ago: 6%), 4% of Stockholm residents (12m ago: 6%).
- Economy: a record-high net 26% of respondents have seen an impact on their income....