New home sales were down last month, but what about 2015 overall? Autumn has been a lackluster season thus far for new home sales, which rose 2.0 percent month-to-month but fell 11.5 percent year-over-year in September, ending the month at a seasonally adjusted

Cash sales dropped ever closer to the pre-crisis norm of 25 percent in July, falling from 34.2 percent 12 months earlier to 30.8 percent, according to a new report from CoreLogic. With traditional financing becoming a more realistic option

Home prices in Metro Atlanta have risen steadily Home prices in the Atlanta metro area rose 0.2 percent monthly and 5.6 percent year-over-year in August, according to the new Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard & Poor’s. Though Atlanta’s yearly increase remained ahead of the national

Charnise Cooley has joined Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners in Peachtree City. Cooley has 15 years of experience working in real estate investments, IT marketing and Web development. Her background in SEO allows her to assist her clients with selling

Looking to join the tiny home trendsetters? For $100,000 you can own a historic New Orleans’ home in the city’s popular Treme neighborhood. The 523-square-foot property was built in 1929 and has been remodeled with larger windows to brighten

After years of waiting, the Beltline is now in the works of extending its Eastside trail. The extension will allow cyclists and pedestrians to travel from Piedmont Park all the way to Memorial Drive. Despite the plans for production, there are

Front Door communities is now selling homes at its newest development, Carolina Park, in Mount Pheasant. The community is inspired by the culture and architecture of Charleston. Homes are priced from $400,000 to $500,000, and the community sits on 1,700

Will Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ever change? Investors and housing advocates alike have anxiously awaited government plans to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but recent comments by Obama administration officials indicate they’ll have to wait a bit longer.

This 7,747 square-foot Swiss chalet home in River Forest has a unique feature, a train. Built during the 1920s, the current homeowner, and railroad enthusiast, bought the property in 1974, according to Realtor.com. He experimented with a model railroad in his basement before

The economy on a whole may be doing better, but most Americans are not directly experiencing those gains The unemployment rate is currently 5.1 percent, down substantially from where it was five years ago. Since bottoming in March 2009, the

Employees of all backgrounds left the construction industry and didn’t come back More than five years after the housing downturn, homebuilders are still grappling with a lack of construction workers, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. There are 1.3 million

Trulia sought to find some of the most unnaturally hazardous places in the country Atlanta was ranked as the eighth most likely city to see a zombie outbreak as part of Trulia’s annual unnatural hazards maps. Since Atlanta is

Without the surging apartment sector, where would new construction be in 2015? Housing starts in September were up 6.5 percent from August and 17.5 percent from Sept. 2014 to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.026 million, which is the

According to the new Better Money Habits Millennial Report from Bank of America, while 84 percent of Millennials are self-reliant when it comes to managing their own finances, 41 percent are constantly stressed about money. Moreover, the report found that money stress

Ninety percent of all U.S. homes are under insulated, according to a new report released by the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA). The report pulled data from the 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey and used insulation estimation techniques

Builders are now more confident than at anytime since the housing boom Builder confidence in the market for newly constructed single-family homes rose three points in October to a level of 64 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells