The statistics are hardly encouraging: student debt has more than tripled in the last 10 years; its serious delinquency rate is higher than any other form of debt, including mortgages and credit cards; it now totals $1.37 trillion, and

New home construction in Metro Atlanta is now at its highest level in eight years, according to the latest report from Metrostudy. For the 12-month period ending in Q2 2016, there were 20,449 single-family starts in Metro Atlanta, a

Fairburn was Metro Atlanta’s top luxury housing market in the second quarter, according to new research from Redfin. Within Fairburn’s luxury market, the average sales price was $445,000 million in Q2, a 55.6 percent increase over Q2 2015; that dwarfed the rest

There are four major fears keeping Millennials from buying a home, according to a recent survey from NerdWallet: the fear of committing to a partner; the fear of inevitable home repairs; the fear of not having money for other

Realtor.com and Yelp have partnered to give consumers easier access to neighborhood trend data – and agents could benefit. “Deciding on a potential neighborhood is often the first step in the home buying process,” says Ryan O’Hara, chief executive officer

The Alpharetta luxury housing market is among the top-performing in the nation, according to a new analysis from Redfin. In 2016’s second quarter, the average sales price for luxury housing in Alpharetta was $1.281 million, a 15.8 percent increase

JD Power today named its annual home buyer/seller satisfaction award recipients, and in all four real estate consumer categories – first-time buyers, first-time sellers, repeat buyers, repeat sellers – Century 21 was the top pick; though, the brokerage tied once with

By 2100, 24,000 Georgia homes could be underwater, according to a new study. The paper, authored by professors Robert Deconto, of the University of Massachusetts, and David Pollard, a senior scientist with Pennsylvania State University’s Earth and Environmental Systems

The National Association of Realtors compared nearly 100 metropolitan areas and found the top 10 metros where renters would be able to afford housing with data such as employment growth, household income, and qualifying income levels. Atlanta landed the

How do the housing markets compare among Metro Atlanta’s top-performing schools? And how do those scores look when the schools are separated by the home prices of their respective markets? Courtesy of a detailed analysis from RealtyTrac, we have charted

Fannie Mae introduced its HomeReady mortgage last year as an inexpensive lending option that allows borrowers to come in with as little as 3 percent down. Now it’s making “enhancements” to that option, and that could mean more affordable financing

President Obama recently signed into law the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016, a bipartisan bill loaded with fixes to existing HUD programs. In February, the bill, which amended the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 (among other HUD-modifying

On June 23, 2016, citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. In the wake of the decision, the British pound fell to a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar, the euro dropped one percent, and U.S.

Americans are deeply pessimistic about economic mobility. By an overwhelming margin, they believe it is harder today to secure a middle-class lifestyle than it was for past generations. And a large majority continue to see the housing market in

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today proposed new updates to TRID intended to formalize guidance in the rule, and provide clarity and certainty. The point is to help facilitate compliance within the mortgage industry. “The Bureau’s rules are designed

One of the minds that brought us Uber is trying to change the face of real estate through a mobile app. The app, called Haus, is for buyers, sellers, and agents, and focuses on the offer process rather than home search.