Residential migration and the Covid-19 crisis: Towards an urban exodus in France ?
Par Marie-Laure Breuillé , Julie Le Gallo et Alexandra Verlhiac
Abstract
Much has been written about the potential effect of the Covid-19 crisis
on residential mobility. Based on owner and buyer estimates performed from
January 2019 to September 2021 on the platform Meilleurs Agents, we are able
to build ows of mobility intentions and analyze, using logit and nested logit
models, how the pandemic has changed the probability that both urban and
rural residents intend to relocate. We find that after a time of shock during
the first lockdown, the desire to migrate, both to rural municipalities and to
other catchment areas, increased as the pandemic and the restrictive measures
continued, and was particularly pronounced after the end of the third and last
lockdown.