The Metro Atlanta housing market continued its strong pace in the most recent Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, which covered home prices through June. Per S&P’s computations, home prices in Metro Atlanta rose 0.8 percent from May to June and 5.8 percent from June

There aren’t enough homes, and that’s a problem in multiple markets. But it might not be for too much longer. “As most real estate professionals know, housing costs are still climbing,” National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun wrote

McMansions – the mass-produced, over-the-top, poorly appreciating eyesores that became the poster children of the housing bubble – seemed to be on the way out. Average and median home size had fallen considerably during the market downturn, as builders trimmed their ambitions

The Social Circle City district in Walton County is the most improved school district in Metro Atlanta, according to a new analysis from Trulia. In a partnership with SchoolDigger.com, Trulia analyzed test scores from the past five years to find which

The Metro Atlanta new construction market continued its strong performance in July, according to new numbers from Dodge Data & Analytics. In July, Metro Atlanta saw more than $561 million in total residential construction spending, a pronounced 27 percent decline from July 2015. Year-over-year

Donald Trump spoke to the National Association of Home Builders this month, and it turned out to be one of the most important speeches of his campaign: it was about housing. He reminisced about what it was like growing

Multigenerational households – those that include two or more adult generations, or grandparent and grandchildren – are at an all-time high in the U.S., according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. Based on census data through 2014, Pew

What do seniors look for in a neighborhood? It’s a smart question for real estate agents to ask, considering the rapid growth of the country’s 65-and-older population. In 2014, 46.2 million people in the U.S. were at least 65

From plummeting sales to skyrocketing levels of negative equity, the housing crisis affected Metro Atlanta market in a number of ways, but how did the metro area’s homeownership rate fair amidst all that upheaval? To find out, we consulted new research

Average closing costs in Georgia are among the highest in the nation, a new report from Bankrate confirmed. The implementation of TRID, and its new closing disclosure form, has helped reduce confusion around what closing costs actually entail. But

The statistics are hardly encouraging: student debt has more than tripled in the last 10 years; its serious delinquency rate is higher than any other form of debt, including mortgages and credit cards; it now totals $1.37 trillion, and

New home construction in Metro Atlanta is now at its highest level in eight years, according to the latest report from Metrostudy. For the 12-month period ending in Q2 2016, there were 20,449 single-family starts in Metro Atlanta, a

Fairburn was Metro Atlanta’s top luxury housing market in the second quarter, according to new research from Redfin. Within Fairburn’s luxury market, the average sales price was $445,000 million in Q2, a 55.6 percent increase over Q2 2015; that dwarfed the rest

The Alpharetta luxury housing market is among the top-performing in the nation, according to a new analysis from Redfin. In 2016’s second quarter, the average sales price for luxury housing in Alpharetta was $1.281 million, a 15.8 percent increase

By 2100, 24,000 Georgia homes could be underwater, according to a new study. The paper, authored by professors Robert Deconto, of the University of Massachusetts, and David Pollard, a senior scientist with Pennsylvania State University’s Earth and Environmental Systems

How do the housing markets compare among Metro Atlanta’s top-performing schools? And how do those scores look when the schools are separated by the home prices of their respective markets? Courtesy of a detailed analysis from RealtyTrac, we have charted