John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods recently announced that it has won six gold and two silver awards at the 35th Annual OBIE Awards. The OBIE Awards are hosted by the Sales and Marketing Council of the Greater Atlanta Home

Last Thursday, Federal Housing Administration Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Ed Golding and National Association of Realtors President Chris Polychron announced changes to FHA condominium policies at the NAR national conference in San Diego. The changes, Golding explained, will change the FHA’s recertification process, owner-occupancy

Single family? Condo? 2,000-plus square feet? What defined the homes consumers bought this year? For our latest story in our continuing series on NAR’s 2015 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, we’re taking a detailed look at the homes

October provided yet more evidence of how integral multifamily building is to the current new construction economy October was a rough month for new construction, with housing starts falling 11 percent from September and 1.8 percent from Oct. 2014

The share of total residential real estate transactions carried out in all cash fell from 34.9 percent in Aug. 2014 to 31.7 percent this most recent August, according to a report from CoreLogic. Month-over-month, cash sales inched upward by

Lennar Atlanta won five OBIEs (three gold and two silver) at the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association (GAHB) 35th Annual Award gala. OBIEs are awarded to Atlanta’s construction industry. Winners displayed excellence in new homebuilding, marketing, remodeling and personal achievement categories.

Is our love for large homes nullifying the progress in energy efficiency? Thanks to new technological advances in water use, insulation, heating and cooling and household appliances, today’s homes are more energy efficient than ever before. Yet new research

The mortgage process doesn’t often top the list of things people like to do, but as far as dealing with banks and moneymen go, customers are more approving of the mortgage process now than any other time in the

Many want to own a house, but the finances are only feasible for an increasingly select few It is a truth universally acknowledged that the vast majority of renters in America aspire to homeownership. Indeed, according to a recent

Avenue Realty has announced the opening of Clarke Hill, its newest development in Decatur. Named after author Caroline McKinney Clarke, writer of The Story of Decatur, 1823-1899, the development’s homes are priced from $600,000, with the option of four to six bedrooms

John Wieland Homes recently opened the Enclave at Stonehaven, its newest development. Enclave’s prices start from $400,000’s, and buyers are protected by the Wieland five-year or 20-year warranty. Interested buyers are able to customize their homes at Wieland’s new

After some very positive months, builder confidence took a step back in November Builder confidence in the market for newly constructed single-family homes slipped three points to 62 from October to November in the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo

Buford Academy in the Buford City School District is the top elementary school in the Metro Atlanta area. That ranking came courtesy of the analytics website Niche, which just released its 2016 rankings of public schools from across the

Shirley Gary, the managing owner and broker of Engel & Völkers, recently received the 2015 Gold OBIE for “Best Marketing Campaign for an Associate” at the 35th Annual Greater Atlanta Homebuilders Association Awards. “We carefully considered and planned our

NAR and RPR push forward with Upstream initiative The National Association of Realtors and Realtors Property Resource have made an agreement with UpstreamRE LLC to develop a cross-industry platform for real estate data entry, collection and distribution for real

Metro Atlanta’s housing market in October was solid and steady October was a positive month for Metro Atlanta’s housing market, with sales, prices and inventory all in positive territory, according to the newest report from the Atlanta Board of