You may think you understand housing affordability, but chances are you’re relying on limited measurements. How affordable is Atlanta’s housing market? The answer to that question is more complicated than meets the eye, and it suggests some very interesting things

A new report from CoreLogic highlights improvements to the nation’s share of all cash sales. Unfortunately, it’s still high. It’s a new housing market in 2015. Policies are shifting, new legislation is being written, and in an eddying whirl

Sure, unemployment has been falling, but the way we measure unemployment is riddled with problems Last week, we reported that the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in February, the lowest it’s been in nearly seven years. News

The nation is healing, and as a result foreclosure inventories are thinning out across the nation. How did our city do? Foreclosure numbers responded positively to a healing economy in January, dropping significantly, CoreLogic’s National Foreclosure Report revealed. Total

Zillow compares employment and income growth to determine the best markets to be in right now. How did our city do? The nuances discerning a good economy from a bad one are plenty and complicated, but for a brief

Where, in Atlanta’s vast terrain, is housing most affordable for owners and renters? Last week, we reported on housing affordability, and how competitive mortgage rates in the Atlanta area had further aided its legendary value. At the same time,

There were several aspects of the new jobs report that real estate agents should be aware of. The government released its latest jobs report earlier today, and as with past reports, there was a subtle mixture of highly positive and slightly

Atlanta’s new construction marketplace put up some smashing good numbers in 2014’s fourth quarter. Here’s a nice blast of good news about Atlanta’s housing market: in 2014’s fourth quarter, housing starts hit a 16,437 annual rate, an 18 percent

Americans love big houses, and that’s true across generational and economic lines. Only 40 percent of Americans are living in their ideal home size, and 43 percent wish they were living in a home that is somewhat or significantly larger.

Home prices went up in 2014, and for some metros, affordability did too. For most homebuyers, especially those entering the market for the very first time, affordability is chief among concerns leading up to a purchase. In an analysis of

Until the economy improves, housing will never fully recover – and the stats are not encouraging. Quite a bit of our reporting, in recent weeks, has focused on inequality and income disparity, and for good reason – a housing

The new year is always a precarious time for the new construction marketplace. Residential construction spending in the Atlanta area was just above $333 million in January, a 6 percent decline from Jan. 2014, according to new numbers from Dodge Data &

A new survey from The Pew Charitable Trusts provided insights into why Americans are hesitant to enter the housing market. Set to the backdrop of 2007’s financial tempest, 2014 was comparably a good year for many American families. However,

The latest price index from CoreLogic covered home prices through January. Home prices in the Atlanta area rose 7.4 percent year-over-year in January, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic. That’s good for the fourth-strongest increase of the metro

January may have seemed like a disappointing month of construction, but a deeper look at the trends reveals much to smile about. Overall construction spending in January was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $971.4 billion, according to the

Housing starts in the Atlanta region rose 18 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to new analysis from MetroStudy; to a final total of 16,437 starts. Among the main collar counties, though, which ones have seen the most new construction in