Atlanta’s housing market continued to grow in confidence in January. Asking prices in the Atlanta housing market increased 14.7 percent year-over-year in January, according to the latest Price Monitor from real estate website Trulia. Though asking prices were flat quarter to

Atlanta’s housing market showed some definite positivity in 2013, according to CoreLogic. Home prices in the Atlanta marketplace rose 15.0 percent in 2013, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index. That was the third strongest yearly increase of all the

Last year proved a very positive one for residential new construction, according to the final Census Bureau numbers. Residential construction spending finished out 2013 at a very fine $352.6 billion, according to the final number crunching by the U.S.

Has Atlanta’s housing market picked up any steam in the last year, or is it moving sideways? We’ve been reporting with marked regularity on how the nation’s housing market has slowed down, but is that trend consistent here in

Housing inventory is something we follow pretty closely, and realtor.com’s latest numbers suggest quite a bit about the current housing market. Oh housing inventory, how we love you. One of the major narratives of the housing recovery, it seems

Atlanta’s foreclosure inventory continues to improve, according to the latest research by CoreLogic. Atlanta’s foreclosure marketplace continued to barrel on through the path to recovery at the end of 2013, according to CoreLogic’s latest National Foreclosure Report. In Dec. 2013, just

Last year closed out on a sour note for pending home sales, according to NAR’s final tally. Dec. 2013 was a rough month for pending home sales, with the Pending Home Sales Index dropping 8.7 percent from November to

Existing-home sales enjoyed a very healthy 2013, though it’s unlikely the market will repeat that performance in 2014. The housing market capped off a successful year in existing-home sales in December, with sales rising 1.0 percent from November to

The Census Bureau’s latest report on new home sales was a bit weak, but that does not mean that the sky is falling. We’ll get the bad news out of the way first: the sales of newly built single-family

November 2013 was a good month for home prices in Atlanta, according to the latest Case-Shiller report. It was a tale of two housing statistics for Atlanta’s market in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s.

We may complain about high housing costs in the U.S., but internationally speaking, we don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s a common complaint among consumers that their rent/mortgage payments are too high, but if they only knew

We’ve looked at how newly built homes are priced and how those prices have changed in recent years; now, we look at costs. The last couple weeks, we’ve looked at both how a single-family home is priced and how

The year of 2013 was a promising one for new residential construction, though there remains considerable room for improvement. We’ll start with the good news: housing starts in the U.S. were up 18.3 percent year-over-year in 2013 and building

Homebuilder confidence declined a smidgen in January, though it remained in positive territory. Builder confidence for the newly built, single-family home market declined a single point from 57 to 56 in January, according to the latest Housing Market Index

The costs and prices of newly built single-family homes are hardly static, the data shows. Last week, we reported that a newly built single-family home in 2013 cost $399,532 to homebuyers, and we looked at the seven components of

Housing inventory in Atlanta continued it’s ascent, according to the latest analysis. Though housing inventory remains low by historical standards, 2013 was the turning point, the year that inventory bottomed and housing marched forward into positive territory. At least,