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Georgia Multiple Listing Service has joined the Zillow Partnership Platform, which will allow GAMLS’s nearly 27,000 members to send their more than 53,000 residential listings throughout the state directly to Zillow as part of the brokers’ online marketing activities.
First-time homebuyers are a scarce bunch, these days. Just when it seemed that the news on first-time homebuyers could not get any more distressing, here comes a new report from RealtyTrac to pour salt on the wounds. In short,
It’s a whole new world out there for new construction, as stunning stat after stunning stat drives home. new-construction-new-home-sales-single-family-median-price-square-footage The Census Bureau’s latest report on new single-family home sales is out, and its findings, at least on the surface,
SmartAsset evaluated refinancing around Georgia and the country to find that Atlanta homeowners are saving more. In Fulton County, Atlanta homeowners are saving more each year on mortgage refinancing than anywhere else in the state, an analysis from SmartAsset,
A California judge granted Zillow’s temporary restraining order to keep ListHub data flowing to Trulia. But will they win the case? The verdict is in – at least for now – and until March 12, a California judge ruled
RE/MAX of Georgia recently named the top real estate professionals, recognizing the accomplishments of the company’s top producing Sales Associates and Sales Team for 2014. Larissa Benson, REALTOR® and Broker with RE/MAX Legends, helped recognize this year’s top producing Sales
The past few months, we’ve reported on the many thorny issues facing Millennials – that their wages in many industries have plummeted in recent years; that their savings rate is negative; that they have pushed roommate rates up to
Atlanta continued to follow the pack in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Home prices in the Atlanta metro area put up solid numbers in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, rising 0.2 percent from November to December and rising 5.1 percent from Dec.
Jim Smith, 2015 President of the Georgia Realtors (GAR), announced the 2015 GAR Awards to individuals for outstanding service during GAR’s 2015 Inaugural & Legislative Conference in Atlanta. Kimberly Harkey of Statham received the Good Neighbor Award for her
In a recent article on new construction, we reported that the multifamily share of total construction had risen from 17.2 percent of the market in Jan. 2002 to 35.1 percent of the market in Jan. 2014. Such a striking
Agents are working hard to make 2015 a profitable year, but low inventories are keeping sales slow. January marked the start of a new year, but it was hardly the hit the ground running beginning the market was hoping
Whenever you see a report on America’s evaporating middle class, you should think about the implications for housing. Homeownership is a defining symbol of American middle class life; indeed, the quintessential image of a single-family detached house, complete with
Builder confidence is far above the rate of new construction; what gives? Here’s an interesting nuance to the housing recovery: the Housing Market Index, which tracks builder confidence, dropped a couple points from January to February, finishing at 55;
The 2015 GAR Awards given to individuals for outstanding service were presented by Jim Smith, 2015 President of the Georgia REALTORS(R) (GAR), during GAR’s 2015 Inaugural & Legislative Conference in Atlanta in mid-February. The recipients of the four awards are as
Pat Riley, president and chief operating officer of Allen Tate Companies, has been elected to a two-year term as chairman of the board of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE), a global network of more than 500 market-leading
Just how dramatic has housing shifted towards rentals, in the last seven years? Forty-nine percent of Atlanta residents now live in rental housing, a tiny increase up from 47 percent in 2006; furthermore, the renter population in Atlanta is up 7 percent in
