The city of Atlanta kicked off the most ambitious expansion yet for its Beltline system, a comprehensive infrastructure project aimed at connecting Atlanta’s various neighborhoods via walkable trails. According to a report by Decaturish, the “Westside Trail,” as it’s

Contract signings are down late in the year but still above average. The latest Pending Home Sales Index report from the National Association of Realtors showed a slight dip in pending home sales in October. Still, levels remain healthy

One aspect of the economic recovery could haunt the housing market far beyond its current cycle. Seven million is a big number, and unfortunately –for both the housing market and the wider economy – it’s attached to a remnant of the Great

Everybody wants a new home, but fewer people will be able to afford them at this rate. Newly built single-family homes are extremely expensive. That was the big takeaway from the latest new home sales report from the Census

It would appear to be a glaring contradiction in the nation’s housing market, but a bit of flip-side thinking immediately clears things up. The HMI, the NAHB’s measurement of builder confidence, rose yet again this month, jumping four points

Ashton Woods’ popular Alpharetta community is sell fast, with only a few opportunities left at the Parc at Broadwell, a 19 home site community. Priced from the mid $500,000s near historic Crabapple, the community is currently offering two distinctive

Home price growth continued to slow in September, but as we argued with home sales, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Balance was the name of the game for home prices in the Atlanta’s housing market, which in September rose

Sure, existing-home sales were up, but there was another side of NAR’s report that suggested even better things for housing. Last week, the National Association of Realtors announced that existing-home sales in October posted their first yearly increase in

Google’s first foray into housing data has yielded some encouraging – albeit sobering – numbers for the housing recovery. Earlier this month, we reported that Google and Auction.com were diving head-first into the real estate data game with NowCast,

The manner in which prospective homebuyers search for residences suggests very interesting things about the housing market. About a month ago, we reported on what has been a radical upheaval to how real estate functions: 43 percent of homebuyers

The popularizing of smartphones introduced the world to the mobile Internet, but now apps have overtaken Web usage. Though smartphones are a relatively new innovation in the longer and more encompassing transition into digital, which started with the introduction

As has been the case for some time now, the residential construction market rose and fell on the strength of multifamily housing. Residential construction saw disappointing numbers in October, and as has been the case during the whole housing

It was another month of contradictions in Atlanta’s housing market. Atlanta’s housing market slowed down a bit from September to October, with home sales, median sales price and average sales price all falling – and that’s not necessarily a

The term “affordability” is thrown around quite a bit, but when it concerns the middle class, the scenario is all the more interesting. Atlanta is the most affordable large metro area in the nation, with 71 percent of the area’s housing

In the midst of heavy criticism, Twitter unrolls a laundry list of forthcoming changes. “Everything that happens in the world happens on Twitter…” The opening line of a blog post Twitter Vice President of Kevin Well published last week

Herman J. Russell, a nationally recognized leader in Atlanta real estate and founder/retired CEO of H.J. Russell & Co. – the largest African-American owned construction company in the U.S. and one of the country’s largest minority-owned companies – died on Saturday