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Highlights from NAR’s new member profile

Sixteen percent of agents have at least one personal assistant. The median age of new Realtors is 43 years old. And 83 percent are very certain they will remain active as real estate professionals for another two years. Those

4 ways to ditch waste-of-time meetings

The average meeting is expensive, long and a waste of time. Those are not the inherent traits of meetings; they are the reality of what contemporary business culture has relegated them to.. But you and your agents deserve better.

Atlanta is a top 25 city for startups – here’s why

Atlanta is one of the best cities in the country for startup companies, according to a joint analysis from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 1776 and Free Enterprise. And it has room to improve further. “We are at

Single-family construction is having a great year

Single-family homebuilding is showing encouraging strength in 2016, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. Through April, single-family authorizations were at a rate of 736,000, which is 3.3 percent above the revised March rate of 725,000. Monthly new

Atlanta’s spring homebuying season begins with a thud

The Metro Atlanta housing market began the spring homebuying season in disappointing fashion, according to new numbers from the Atlanta Board of Realtors (ABR). In April, the Atlanta area saw 4,238 home sales, a 9.8 percent decline from March

Builder confidence points to strong construction in 2016

Builder confidence in the market for newly-built single-family homes remained unchanged in May at a level of 58 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). Ed Brady, the NAHB’s chairman, explained in the association’s report

How zombies and James Bond kickstarted a luxury housing boom in Atlanta

Luxury home sales in Metro Atlanta soared in 2015, and according to a new report, agents have zombies and 007 to thank for the surging market. In the newest luxury home sales report from Christie’s International Real Estate, the

Millennials dream of homeownership…from their moms’ basements

Millennials may be America’s largest, most vivacious generation yet, but new research suggests that their homebuying prospects have only worsened with time. According to a new analysis from Zillow, more Millennials now live with their parents than at anytime

Metro Atlanta mortgage activity jumps double digits in 2016

Overall mortgage activity is down in the Metro Atlanta housing market this year, but that only tells half the story, according to RealtyTrac’s Q1 2016 U.S. Residential Property Loan Origination Report. Through the first quarter, RealtyTrac found, Atlanta lenders oversaw 34,104 originations,

This “boring” topic could be worth thousands to your clients

We know, we know – private mortgage insurance (PMI for short) is one of the more profoundly unsexy topics in real estate, and offers little of the glitz and glamor of staging, showing and negotiating. But it is a

This Atlanta brokerage is Georgia’s No. 1 in sales

Every year, REAL Trends, a leading source for industry data and analysis, publishes its 500 lists, which rank the country’s top residential brokerages by transaction sides and total sales volume. This year both Georgia and Atlanta were well represented.

Is Georgia a good state to live in for working moms?

The prevalence of women in the workforce has grown tremendously over the past few decades, and as a result, working moms have gained buying power in the real estate market. However, as a recent study from WalletHub pointed out,

Is luxury housing in Atlanta slowing down?

Luxury housing markets across the U.S. have seen declines in 2016, but according to a new analysis from Redfin, no market has slowed more than Sandy Springs. Through Q1 2016, the average sale price for luxury homes in Sandy

Atlanta ranked one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S.

Earlier this week, we reported on NeighborhoodScout’s new list of the top 100 safest cities in the U.S. In part two of this two-part series on crime, we’ll be counting down the top 100 “most dangerous” cities in America. The

Why Metro Atlanta’s first-time homebuyers face a tough spring

From stagnant wages to competition from cash buyers, first-time homebuyers face many challenges in today’s housing market, but perhaps none is greater than the inventory shortage – a fact that is especially true here in Metro Atlanta. According to

Two Atlanta suburbs named in 2016 top 100 safest U.S. cities

Though crime happens in all major cities, the severity and frequency of it vary greatly from metro to metro, as two new reports from real estate analytics provider NeighborhoodScout recently pointed out. In part one of this two-part series on those crime

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