IC’s post-COVID economy series - part 2 -Pandemic pushes IC housing boom

IRON COUNTY — Sisters Punner Franzene and Barbara (“Bee”) Benson-Stafford have had a busy year. The sister duo are owner/broker and associate broker/realtor, respectively, of UP Riverland. Though the real estate industry all but completely shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, since guidelines were approved in May 2020 to reopen, business has been booming. “Once the realtors were…