Zillow compares employment and income growth to determine the best markets to be in right now. How did our city do? The nuances discerning a good economy from a bad one are plenty and complicated, but for a brief

Where, in Atlanta’s vast terrain, is housing most affordable for owners and renters? Last week, we reported on housing affordability, and how competitive mortgage rates in the Atlanta area had further aided its legendary value. At the same time,

Atlanta’s new construction marketplace put up some smashing good numbers in 2014’s fourth quarter. Here’s a nice blast of good news about Atlanta’s housing market: in 2014’s fourth quarter, housing starts hit a 16,437 annual rate, an 18 percent

Home prices went up in 2014, and for some metros, affordability did too. For most homebuyers, especially those entering the market for the very first time, affordability is chief among concerns leading up to a purchase. In an analysis of

The new year is always a precarious time for the new construction marketplace. Residential construction spending in the Atlanta area was just above $333 million in January, a 6 percent decline from Jan. 2014, according to new numbers from Dodge Data &

Lisa Robinson, one of Atlanta’s most successful brokers and luxury real estate experts, and Millie Smith, one of the city’s most influential philanthropists, have partnered to exclusively represent a $6,950,000 grand private estate located on Riverview Road in Atlanta.

The latest price index from CoreLogic covered home prices through January. Home prices in the Atlanta area rose 7.4 percent year-over-year in January, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic. That’s good for the fourth-strongest increase of the metro

Housing starts in the Atlanta region rose 18 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to new analysis from MetroStudy; to a final total of 16,437 starts. Among the main collar counties, though, which ones have seen the most new construction in

In the end, buying a home all comes down to dollars and cents, and Atlanta’s qualifying incomes differ in interesting ways with the rest of the U.S. To qualify for a mortgage on a 5 percent down payment, Atlanta homebuyers

Those Gen-Xers love Atlanta! According to a new analysis by RealtyTrac, Atlanta has the second-highest concentration of Generation X residents in America, with 18.01 percent of the area population comprised of that generation. Aside from the obvious marketing benefits

Georgia Multiple Listing Service has joined the Zillow Partnership Platform, which will allow GAMLS’s nearly 27,000 members to send their more than 53,000 residential listings throughout the state directly to Zillow as part of the brokers’ online marketing activities.

SmartAsset evaluated refinancing around Georgia and the country to find that Atlanta homeowners are saving more. In Fulton County, Atlanta homeowners are saving more each year on mortgage refinancing than anywhere else in the state, an analysis from SmartAsset,

RE/MAX of Georgia recently named the top real estate professionals, recognizing the accomplishments of the company’s top producing Sales Associates and Sales Team for 2014. Larissa Benson, REALTOR® and Broker with RE/MAX Legends, helped recognize this year’s top producing Sales

Atlanta continued to follow the pack in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Home prices in the Atlanta metro area put up solid numbers in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, rising 0.2 percent from November to December and rising 5.1 percent from Dec.

Jim Smith, 2015 President of the Georgia Realtors (GAR), announced the 2015 GAR Awards to individuals for outstanding service during GAR’s 2015 Inaugural & Legislative Conference in Atlanta. Kimberly Harkey of Statham received the Good Neighbor Award for her

The 2015 GAR Awards given to individuals for outstanding service were presented by Jim Smith, 2015 President of the Georgia REALTORS(R) (GAR), during GAR’s 2015 Inaugural & Legislative Conference in Atlanta in mid-February. The recipients of the four awards are as