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Atlanta ranks third on NREI’s top 10 suburbs for millennials

As millennials get older, they’re trading in their train passes for minivans as they head for the suburbs, this according to National Real Estate Investor’s survey of suburban areas with the best potential for millennial population growth. Thanks to

Atlanta home supply drops 10 percent, indicating rising prices in winter months

Source: Atlanta Realtors Association Although Atlanta home sales are heading into the fall slowdown, October sales are still up compared to this time last year, according to the Atlanta Realtors Association. October 2017 residential sales were at 4,387, which

Atlanta ranked 2nd on best cities for singles list

Much ado has been made about the increasing share of unmarried Americans, which numbered more than 110.5 million — more than 45 percent of adults 18 and older in the United States last year, according to the U.S. Census

This Week in Atlanta Real Estate: Midtown Alliance makes progress with Juniper Street Transformation Project

Source: Midtown Alliance Midtown has created new zoning policies as a result of exponential pedestrian growth in the area that will help propel a new pedestrian project. The organization expects to break ground on its longest most ambitious streetscape

Compass plans huge expansion after raising $100 million

Compass, a real estate technology startup, announced that it has raised $100 million during the Series E investment round, which it will use to expand to every major city within the United States. The company is now valued at $108

Georgia home prices jump 6.3 percent since last year

Compared to last year, home prices in the state of Georgia increased by 6.3 percent in September 2017, mirroring overvalued housing trends in many cities nationwide. According to CoreLogic’s U.S. Home Price Index, as of September 2017, half of

This Week in Atlanta Real Estate: HUD Secretary Ben Carson comes to town

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson came to Atlanta earlier this week and toured HUD-assisted properties as well as the Family Self-Sufficiency and Choice Neighborhood programs. Carson also stopped at City Lights, which is an 80-unit, senior

Georgia ranks fifth in housing permits issued

Through August 2017, there have been 852,825 housing permits issued this year for single- and multi-family homes — an increase of 7.7 percent over August 2016. A recent report from the National Association of Home Builders analyzed U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of

Georgia is one of the most popular states for out-of-state buyers

According to a new survey, homebuyers most interested in the south and many of them are headed toward Georgia. LendingTree reviewed purchase mortgage loan requests for each state’s primary residents from October 2016 to October 2017 and found the

Case-Shiller Index shows major home price gains in August

With more homebuyers competing for a limited supply of homes, sellers are upping their prices to match the high demand, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices for August 2017. The National Home Price Index reported a gain of

Construction starts are up in Atlanta compared to 2016

Though spending for construction starts has exponentially increased in 2017 as a whole, both nonresidential and residential building starts have dipped in the past month, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. Last month, spending for residential building in the

Atlanta among cities with best infrastructure in U.S.

When shopping for homes, one of the primary things people look at is its bones. And so, it makes sense that when changing cites that the bones of the cityscape should be examined. It may not be a scintillating

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How many working hours does it take to buy a home?

The ability to own your own home is a dream for most Americans, but depending on which part of the country you live in, that may require more working hours than in other locations. A recent report from How Much

Atlanta residents find homebuying and selling stressful

Buying and selling a home can be an extremely stressful process, so much so that some Atlanta homeowners say they would rather get a root canal than try to sell a home. According to a new survey from Opendoor,

15 spookiest street names in the Atlanta area

Nearly every kid has that creepy house at the end of the lane, the one all their friends would whisper about and race their bikes past. The one the neighborhood children would ding-dong ditch or dare each other to

Rising sea levels pose biggest threat to owners of less-expensive homes

It’s common knowledge that ships and boats can sink, but can you imagine a sunken community? A recent report revealed that $916 billion worth of U.S. homes could end up underwater due to the sea level increasing by just

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