【Zillow】Amazon's New HQs: What We Know and What We Can Assume

Amazon has announced that rather than choose one city to host its second headquarters, it will instead split the prize – and its thousands of well-paid jobs and billions of dollars in reinvestment – between two locales: Crystal City, outside of Washington, D.C.; and Long Island City in Queens, New York.

Here’s what we know and what we can assume may happen to the local economies and housing markets in coming weeks and months. We will update this post as new data come in.

• • What the news means for New York and D.C. housing markets

• • What the news means for Seattle, home to Amazon’s original HQ

• • D.C., NYC-Area Residents: Expect Even Faster Rent Growth

• • Home Searches in Arlington, Long Island City Spiked Before Rumors Became Public

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