People are panic buying homes as prices skyrocket around the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/13/business/global-real-estate-prices/index.html
Also in Japan, people living around downtown fled to suburban areas last year. But now, many of them are suffering from long commuting time. That's because more and more companies require attendance at office. In some cases, by requesting management class staffs to come back to office, subordinate employees are indirectly forced to commute to office.
So, we should think that trend caused by pandemic would disappear soon.