It could be that time spent at home during the pandemic made renters more interested in owning a home, or that people are getting help from family or friends with down payments, or that some  Residential Inflation,” NBER Working Paper Series 29795 (Cambridge, Mass.
Some businesses appear to have achieved a degree of independence of their bankers, with respect to foreign currency receipts and payments. In so far as this facilitates payment of imports out of private firms' foreign earnings, there is no problem with that arrangement.