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I'm Joe Eisenthal.

And I'm Tracy Allaway.

Tracy, one of the really interesting things about this crisis is that the real estate market hasn't

exactly behaved as one might expect during a typical downturn. We have sort of

depression levels of unemployment, a major plunge in economic activity,

and yet not all aspects of the real estate market have done badly.

Yeah, I guess it depends on what you're looking at, right?

So housing or residential housing has been surprisingly resilient.

You know, some of the stimulus has helped people actually stay in their homes, keep up with the mortgage payments.

In some places we're actually seeing a housing boom, but if you look at the other half of real estate, which would be commercial real estate there are a lot of

concerns out there. Right so if you're a retail landlord in New York City you have a lot of ground-level tenants.

That's probably trouble.

On the other hand, if you want to sell your house from the suburbs,

this is an amazing time to do it.

And of course, it's further complicated because there have been all these temporary moratoriums on evictions for certain types of renters.

There's also been the stimulus,

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