Some Americans think 2016 will offer more of the same for housing Earlier this week, we reported on a new realtor.com study, which featured a largely positive list of trends that will change heading into 2016. Trulia published their own survey of

How did the local rent markets close out the year? The Atlanta rental market finished 2015 on active terrain, according to new analysis from Reis. For the 12-month period ending in December, Atlanta rents rose 5.4 percent, more than the 4.6 percent national average

Atlanta continues to thrive thanks to a strong economy and quick rebound from recession Georgia’s unemployment rate in construction was down to 4 percent with 163,300 workers in November, according to a report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Georgia’s construction

“Green” and energy-efficient features remain important to homebuyers, though some options are more sought-after than others. That finding came courtesy of NAR’s 2015 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, and to parse through the results, we put together the

Since 2014, home prices have been in what CoreLogic Chief Economist Frank Nothaft recently described as a “sweet spot,” consecutively rising between 5 and 6 percent for 15 months. According to the research group’s newest report, home prices rose

Pending home sales in November declined for the third time in four months as buyers continue to battle both rising home prices and limited homes available for sale, according to the National Association of Realtors. The Pending Home Sales

The latest analysis from Dodge Data provided an encouraging assessment of new construction in Atlanta According to the latest numbers from Dodge Data & Analytics, residential construction spending in the Metro Atlanta housing market totaled $405 million in November, and depending

Home prices in Atlanta are outpacing the nation’s year-over-year gains in October by nearly an entire percentage point after increasing 6.1 percent, according to the new Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s. Month-over-month, Atlanta was one of

Stagnant wages and high rents combine to push homeownership out of reach for thousands of Atlanta residents More than 570,000 renters in the Atlanta housing market struggle with the cost of housing, according to a new report from the Joint Center of Housing

New home sales are shaping up for their best year since 2007 Sales of new single-family homes in November rose 4.3 percent from October and 9.1 percent from Nov. 2014 to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 490,000, according

Housing is on a precipice of affordability, according to a new study The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has offered some unflinching examinations of the nation’s housing market, particularly in terms of affordability and the growing

Data suggests the young adult homeownership rate is stabilizing After decades of decline, the 25-to-34-year-old homeownership rate has begun to level out, seeing no significant decline in 2014, according to Fannie Mae’s Housing Insights report. That trend, according to

The number of all cash transactions peaked in Jan. 2011, accounting for over 46 percent of total home sales. In September of this year, cash sales represented a much smaller portion of total sales with a 32.5 percent share,

Where does America’s middle class stand financially? New analysis from the Pew Research Center explains The U.S. middle class, which has long defined the country’s economic prosperity, is no longer the majority of Americans. That eye-grabbing finding came courtesy of

It was a month of thanksgiving for the nation’s homebuilders November offered U.S. homebuilders many reasons to give thanks, with permits, starts and completions all in positive territory. According to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau, building

New projections from the country’s Bureau of Labor Statistics forecast big job gains for the construction sector over the next decade and emphasize the growing importance of environmentally conscious building. Over the 10-year period beginning in 2014 and ending