Zoom towns are booming across America | USA TODAY

As remote jobs took hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, a flux of remote workers left big cities for rural towns creating so-called Zoom towns.

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When Miriam Stocking listed her house for sale in March in the Boise, Idaho, area, she was not inundated with multiple offers.

Instead, she received one offer above the $725,000 asking price but the buyers soon backed out saying they’d decided they wanted an open-floor plan instead.

By June, she’d closed on a deal that was $25,000 below asking.

Stocking's home is in a Zoom town – towns that attracted remote workers as they fled expensive cities during the pandemic.

After two years of bidding wars, above-asking and no contingency offers, many of the Zoom towns are now seeing a massive slowdown.

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