The pandemic has sent some residents fleeing from a few of the country’s highest-price markets such as New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. Greater Boston has so far avoided that fate, perhaps at least in part because of its reliance on colleges, hospitals and life sciences companies whose work largely can’t be done remotely, said Steve Medeiros, the president of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.

Massachusetts housing experts interviewed see two main reasons for continually rising prices: little inventory, which pushes up prices, and very low interest rates, which can make higher-priced homes more affordable over the life of a mortgage.

“You’re going to definitely see a strong housing market in 2021,” Medeiros said. “It’s not going to change with demand and all of that.”

Gov. Charlie Baker has pushed for more new-home construction and to make it easier for projects to win needed zoning changes at the community level, but those changes, even if enacted, won’t make a significant difference soon, Medeiros said. Costs of building new homes will remain high, often forcing high sale prices for anything not built with affordability restrictions.

“I don’t see prices going down. I really don’t,” DeLuca said, putting his projection in the simplest economic terms. “There’s too much demand and not enough supply.”

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