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5 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 “Lots of people were also looking for larger homes because their kids were moving back in,” Bemis injects. “They weren’t empty nesters anymore—the whole family was back living under one roof.” Now, with housing availability and affordability becoming increasingly stretched as part of the long-term impacts of Covid-19, AvenueWest will certainly be a key player in offsetting the issues with tight housing markets, allowing both their corporate-side and property- side clients to reap the benefits of most transformational business shifts stemming from our post-pandemic environment. “There was a huge housing shortage, especially last summer,” Bemis remembers. “When we started to come out of Covid, the REITs, the AVENUEWEST