Current Market Data

Negative Equity Heavily Concentrated in Lower Price Points

Negative equity persists in today’s housing market, but its impacts are not equally felt in every price point. Earlier this week, we reported on new findings by Zillow that a whopping 42.6 percent of Generation X mortgage holders are

Residential Construction in Atlanta Stumbles in July

Construction spending stumbled a bit in Atlanta in July, though it’s more an outlier than anything else. Residential construction spending in the Atlanta region totaled $304 million in July 2014, a 9 percent decline from last year, according to the latest stats from McGraw Hill

July Pending Home Sales Offer Pleasant Surprise

Pending home sales rose for the fourth time in five months, according to the National Association of Realtors. Pending home sales rebounded in July, rising 3.3 percent from June according to the latest data from the National Association of

The Limitations of $1 Million in International Real Estate

$1 million sure goes much farther in our local housing market! In our housing market, as well as scores of others across the U.S., $1 million is a hefty sum of money, one that awards potential homebuyers a myriad

New Report Talks Atlanta Affordability

The U.S. housing market has been in recovery mode the last two years, and despite gains, some areas remain in dire straights. If the real estate industry can be thought of as its own world, then consider the bursting

Falling Foreclosure Rates Represent A Housing Market That’s Bouncing Back

New CoreLogic report finds that even though foreclosures are still around, their presence is much less pronounced. In 2013, foreclosures were at the epicenter of the housing conversation. However, after a year of tirelessly closing short sales and pushing

Atlanta Residential Construction Still Down Substantially From Historical Norms

Though our marketplace has traversed quite the terrain since 2008, new data shows that it still has quite a bit of ground to cover. We report quite regularly on building permits at the national level, but how have permits

Generation X Still Racked by Underwater Mortgages

Though the U.S. has cleared through millions of underwater mortgages, a shocking number of Gen X mortgage holders are still underwater. Seventeen percent of the nation’s homeowners – aka 8.7 million – are still underwater on their mortgages, but

Housing Affordability Returning to Earth

Housing affordability has been one of the key marketing tools in an agent’s arsenal, but that could be changing soon. During housing’s down years, agents had a couple of marvelous talking points to use with potential homebuyers – housing prices

3 Easy Steps To Help Maximize Your Social Media Presence

Social media is quickly becoming the preferred marketing method for many, and with good reason. Here are 3 steps to help you boost its effectiveness. In the past several years, the influence of the Internet has grown exponentially when it

Atlanta Home Prices Show Signs of Slowdown in Case-Shiller

Home prices in the Atlanta region showed signs of slowing down in the latest Case-Shiller. Home prices in the Atlanta metro area rose 8.6 percent year-over-year in June, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s.

5 Points to Help Explain When Millennials Will Start Buying

Homeownership rates in young adults have been dwindling, and Fannie Mae takes a stab at explaining why. Homeownership is on the decline. And though it is a trickling decline and might, at some point in the future, reverse itself, there

The 4 Angles of Today’s New Home Sales Report

New home sales were down monthly and up yearly, but the story is so much deeper than that. By now you’ve surely seen the headlines – though new home sales in July were up 12.3 percent from last year,

The Secret Life of Existing-Home Sales

July’s existing-home sales data looked pretty positive, but scratching beneath the surface reveals a different perspective. It all seems so nice – in July, existing-home sales rose 2.4 percent from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.15 million,

Builder Confidence Jumps to Highest Mark Since January

Despite numbers that would imply the contrary, homebuilder confidence continued to increase this month. #82355278 / gettyimages.com Builders were a mighty confident bunch this month, with the NAHB’s Housing Market Index, the industry’s leading measure of homebuilder confidence, rising

Existing-Home Sales Pace Hits Its Stride, Reaches 2014 Peak

NAR’s new existing home-sales report shows the sales pace quickening, inventory rising and distressed sales falling. #180585625 / gettyimages.com As summer temperatures hit their peak in July, so did existing-home sales, which, as the National Association of Realtors today

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