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Nury Suri and her team have joined the Atlanta Century 21 Connect Realty Team. A long-time real estate associate, Suri said she is glad join the Connect team. “Having started my real estate career with Century 21 so many years ago, I am
Atlanta’s housing market is improving, and most homeowners are personally reaping the benefits. Home sales and prices are showing strong improvement throughout Metro Atlanta, and that progress has translated to greater returns for the area’s homeowners. That was the surprising finding of RealtyTrac’s
David Bascoe has joined Engel & Völkers Buckhead Atlanta as a real estate advisor. “I am thrilled to join and collaborate with some of the best minds in luxury real estate,” said Bascoe, who grew up in San Jose but has called
The latest ranking in high schools provides further evidence of Atlanta’s prominence in education Metro Atlanta high schools are well represented in Newsweek‘s “America’s Top Schools 2015,” with five schools ranking amongst the top 500. Here are the schools, along with their ranking: DeKalb
In September, single-family home prices, including distressed sales, jumped 6.4 percent year-over-year, according to CoreLogic. For more than a year, national home prices have followed a steady, upward trajectory toward long-term stability. CoreLogic Chief Economist Sam Khater described the last 15
A wealth of new luxury units in Atlanta creates fears of out-pricing low and mid-income renters Construction has been moving in Atlanta, and the vast majority of it has been for luxury apartments that price out low to mid-income renters, according
John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods recently announced the opening of a new development, The Gates at Ivy Walk. A luxury community, the homes offer bonus rooms, gourmet kitchens, retreats and private elevators. The neighborhood has a central green, but buyers
Traton Homes announced that its new community, Olde Anderson Estates, will open in November in Marietta’s Walton High School district. The homes are priced from the high $700,000s and have nine vacancies. The homes in Olde Anderson Estates will feature
As 2015 draws to a close, how has residential construction activity in Atlanta compared with the previous year? Residential construction spending in Atlanta totaled $392 million in September, according to new Dodge Data & Analytics numbers. Although that is a pronounced 41
Atlanta was one of the three most-searched U.S. cities by international buyers from South Africa, according to realtor.com International. The top five cities in the U.S. that international buyers searched for in September were New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando
For nearly a decade, the nation’s homeownership rate has been in decline. Since 2004, when homeownership peaked at 69 percent, the rate has fallen nearly 6 percentage points down to 63.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according
After years of battling against the popularity of single-family homes, the demand for condos is gaining around many of the nation’s hottest metros, a new report from Zillow showed. Year-over-year, the nation’s condo prices have risen at a rate of
Cash sales dropped ever closer to the pre-crisis norm of 25 percent in July, falling from 34.2 percent 12 months earlier to 30.8 percent, according to a new report from CoreLogic. With traditional financing becoming a more realistic option
Home prices in Metro Atlanta have risen steadily Home prices in the Atlanta metro area rose 0.2 percent monthly and 5.6 percent year-over-year in August, according to the new Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s. Though Atlanta’s yearly increase remained ahead of the national
Charnise Cooley has joined Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners in Peachtree City. Cooley has 15 years of experience working in real estate investments, IT marketing and Web development. Her background in SEO allows her to assist her clients with selling
After years of waiting, the Beltline is now in the works of extending its Eastside trail. The extension will allow cyclists and pedestrians to travel from Piedmont Park all the way to Memorial Drive. Despite the plans for production, there are
