Buying a Home During Coronavirus – The Wall Street Journal

Real estate is a local industry and, as a rule, varies widely from market to market. But when Covid detonated in March, even that constant was upturned: For two weeks or more, deals everywhere fell apart, closings were delayed, buyers didn’t shop and sellers wouldn’t let them in anyway.

We worked with the data team at Realtor.com to find out what happened next. (News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, also operates Realtor.com under license from the National Association of Realtors.) The first step was for Realtor.com…