Asking prices ended the year with a bang, according to new analysis. The Atlanta housing market closed off 2014 in a flourishing way, with asking prices rising 15.9 percent for the year, according to the latest Price Monitor from Trulia. That was

There are many positive things happening in housing right now, but this may be the most encouraging trend of all. On the surface, NAR’s latest existing-home sales report is not a very positive affair, with sales falling 6.1 percent

Though Atlanta’s for-sale market is showing signs of a seasonal slowdown, its rental market continues to charge ahead. The rental market in the Atlanta area continued its ascent in 2014’s fourth quarter, completing one of the strongest rental years in recent

What obstacles remain in the homebuying process? Consumers have many expectations for the housing market in 2015, but they’re also operating under little allusion as to the obstacles that remain in place between them and their dream home. So

Economic sentiment has been pretty low for some time here in America, but does new survey data show that’s changing for the better? After a long purgatory, it seems that Americans are finally re-gaining their confidence in the economy,

We all know that our housing market has quite a bit of value behind it, but what’s the big number that it all adds up to? We’ll cut straight to the big number – $370 billion. That’s the cumulative

Negative equity may be down in Atlanta, but that doesn’t mean that it’s no longer a problem. Last week, we reported a much-needed dosage of good news – that after peaking a few years back, negative equity in Atlanta has fallen

The negative equity situation in Atlanta has improved dramatically, according to new research by Zillow. Here is some encouraging news for you to end the week with – here in the Atlanta area, the share of mortgage properties in negative equity

Builder confidence remains high while home construction continues to trod along – what gives? Builder confidence this month fell just one point, according to the latest Housing Market Index from the National Association of Home Builders. Finishing up 2014

We all want to think that an explosion is pending in Millennial homeownership, but the numbers to justify that are hardly cooperating. The last few months, we’ve reported consistently that the big problem facing housing (as well as the

Everyone knows that mortgages and rents have ran in opposing directions, but the numbers are still jaw-dropping. For some time, we’ve been hearing two independent narratives in housing: one, that mortgage rates and payments were at an all-time low;

A new round of analysis suggests that housing affordability remains strong in all but one county in Atlanta. As if we didn’t already have enough indicators on the housing affordability here in Atlanta, here comes perhaps the most encouraging analysis yet.

New analysis by Clear Capital put the Atlanta-area housing market on quite the pedestal. The Atlanta metro area is home to the second-best performing housing market in the nation, according to a fresh analysis by Clear Capital. From the second

What’s the deal with asking prices in our metro area? Asking prices in the Atlanta area remained positive in November, and they seem to be showing no signs of slowing down, according to the newly released Price Monitor from Trulia. Per Trulia’s analysis,

This year has been a very productive one for Atlanta’s luxury housing market, if recent data is any indicator. We might as well call 2014 the “Year of Luxury Home Sales,” here in Atlanta. According to new numbers from

At the end of the day, how much income do consumers need to qualify for certain mortgages in our housing market? In our most recent analysis of housing affordability, we looked at what percentage of our housing market’s inventory