With talk in the air about overhauling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, how much sway does conforming loan limits have on our market? #157336161 / gettyimages.com Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the massive government-sponsored entities that are responsible for the

Prices have risen strongly thus far in 2014, and April only continued that hot streak. #122676840 / gettyimages.com Atlanta’s radical home price increases in 2014 continued in April, with asking prices rising 16.1 percent yearly and 6.0 percent quarterly, according to

Did our area’s long-term housing inventory trends continue last month? #171583862 / gettyimages.com According to the latest analysis by Movoto, inventory in the Atlanta area was up 13.3 percent last month, which was the second most among the nation’s largest metro areas. How does

This year’s stellar home-price gains continued into the spring, according to CoreLogic’s latest analysis. #485935355 / gettyimages.com Home prices in the Atlanta area housing market rose 14.1 percent year-over-year in March, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic.

Home prices have increased in a hurry the last year, but has that made homeownership any less practical in certain markets? #476846255 / gettyimages.com In the immediate years after the housing bubble popped, the answer to “rent or buy?”

On May 6 of this year, new home builder in metro Atlanta, Fortress Builders is hosting a grand opening event at West Cobb communities’ Church Hill and Brookstone Manor. Attendees are invited to enjoy complimentary lunch at Brookstone Manor,

Residential construction has been making a tepid comeback in recent months; how did March play into that narrative? Let’s put it this way – March was both a rather disappointing month for residential construction in the Atlanta area, according

Home prices offered few surprises in the latest Case-Shiller report. Home prices in the Atlanta area rose 16.1 percent year-over-year in February, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s. Still, prices in the area continued to struggle

D.R. Horton is close to announcing the completion of its plan to purchase Crown Communities, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metro area’s No. 1 builder in unit volume. The purchase of Crown would more than double Horton’s market share to just

Ashton Woods Homes has announced that its newest community in South Forsyth, The Grove at Spring Valley, will be opening soon. The community, conveniently located near the area’s biggest attractions, offers 69 single-family homes. “The Grove at Spring Valley

We keep hearing about how time on market continues to fall, but what do the averages tell us about how fast our market really is? Earlier this week, we reported that nationwide, time on market has fallen seven days

Windsong Properties, an Atlanta-based builder specializing in active adult homes, has hired Amy Ackerstein as its new design center manager. Ackerstein, a Syracuse University graduate, has 20 years of experience in the home building industry and has received several

As recent college graduates set their sites on jobs across the country and former grads weigh the pros and cons of staying put versus moving to a new location for better pay and cheaper rent – these young professionals

March was a very good month for price per square foot in our housing market, according to Movoto. Those signs of a housing recovery just became a bit brighter. According to the latest State of the Real Estate Market

We’ve been hearing for some time that rents are increasing, but new numbers from Zillow present the issue in a new light. Rising rents, like falling home prices, have been one of the prevailing narratives of the post-bubble housing

Atlanta’s median sales price continued its impressive rise, according to new ABR numbers. The median sales price for single-family home transactions in the 11-county Atlanta area rose 13.9 percent from February to March and 16.9 percent from March 2013,