Lots of renters plan to work at home permanently. But home-office space carries a hefty cost.

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Renters who plan to work from home at least part of the time going forward are looking for that elusive home-office space, but they'll have to pay a premium to get it.

A survey of 20,000 renters on RentCafe.com in May found about one-third of renters would be working from home either full time or part time for the foreseeable future. Of those, about 35% are interested in getting an apartment with an extra bedroom. About 60% of those living in studio apartments are interested in an extra space.

Why? Because only about 26% have a separate room to use for work, according to the survey by RentCafe.

“Granted, space has been a persistent challenge for apartment dwellers in the last year and a half. But, for that one-third, the realization that working from home is now a more permanent setup has just turned a temporary need for extra space into a long-term necessity,” said Florentina Sarac in a blog post for RentCafe.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/08/05/rent-work-from-home-office-rentcafe.html

[brooklynite]

1. According to RE agents we've talked to, our Brooklyn townhouse now carries a premium in NYC...

...because of available work space indoors and private space outdoors.

[murielm99]

2. My daughter and her husband

just moved to a new apartment with extra space for a home office. Now she is looking for more office furniture.

Her cat loves all of this.

[Skittles]

3. not hard if you live alone

I have no extra space, am in the living room - with three laptops and extra monitors

but I cannot imagine such an arrangement if there was, say, a kid running around - that would be hard