When Amazon announced in 2018 that it would build a second headquarters in Arlington, , to host 25,000 white-collar tech workers, fears erupted that local house prices would skyrocket, displacing lower-income residents.Now, five years later, a by real estate data company Bright has investigated how that site, branded 'HQ2' by Amazon, may have impacted the surrounding housing market.It found that in 2018 after it was announced that HQ2 would be located in Arlington, house prices soared faster in that county than in neighboring areas, such as Washington, , and the rest of Northern Virginia.
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