Trump’s Investor Ban Could Reshape Metro Atlanta’s Housing Market
Trump’s Investor Ban Could Reshape Metro Atlanta’s Housing Market President Trump announced Wednesday that he will ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, a move that could significantly impact metro Atlanta—one of the nation’s hotspots for corporate-owned rental properties. “I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, […]
Inside Cobb County’s Housing Market Slowdown (And the 2026 Surprise Coming)
The wild ride is over. What comes next might surprise you. Remember 2021? When houses in East Cobb sold before the “For Sale” sign even went up? When your Realtor friend became everyone’s new best friend? When that house down the street sold for $75,000 over asking in a weekend bidding war that felt […]
Atlanta Is the Best Place to Live in the U.S.
Money’s Best Places to Live list has been around for 35 years and counting. And if you’ve come across it in any one of those years, you know that Atlanta is very different from the kinds of places that usually make the cut. Especially at the very top. This is no accident. At a time when people […]
Where—and how—Atlantans want to live now
Welcome to the Age of Nesting. The London-based Future Laboratory coined that phrase, noting that we’ve just emerged from “the largest home-working case study in history,” which will profoundly impact where and how we live. The Economist reported that moving patterns could be in for the greatest shift since the suburbanization of the 1950s. Nowhere […]
Atlanta Market Update & Forecast – 21Q3
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Third Quarter Results Show Mixed Results for Atlanta’s Commercial Real Estate Market
Metro Atlanta added approximately 24,200 new jobs in August according to the most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Currently, Atlanta has added back nearly 60% of the jobs lost during the initial pandemic shutdown. Local job gains have been largely reflective of the spread of the virus in the area with […]
Atlanta Industrial Market Shines As Other Sectors Are Slow To Recover
According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Atlanta has added back a little more than half of the jobs lost during the initial shutdown due to the global pandemic, but the most recent jobs report shows a vast slowdown in those jobs gains during the last two months. The reports show […]
Know Your Neighborhood: Marietta
Now known for its bustling city square, Marietta was once home to Creek and Cherokee Indians. The birth of Marietta began with 4 community homes near an old Indian Trail which accounted for less than 50 people. The city was named after the wife of T. R. R. Cobb, Mary Cobb. Hence the county of […]
Atlanta’s Commercial Real Estate Market Outpaces Other US Metros Since Pandemic
The United States added 7.5 million jobs in May and June, which is about a third of the jobs that were lost in the previous 3 months during the initial phase of the global pandemic breakout and shutdown. Atlanta and the rest of the sunbelt metro areas outside of California have performed well in relation […]
Atlanta’s Industrial Market Remains Strong While Other Sectors Adapt To Overcome New Obstacles
Atlanta has quickly established itself as the tech hub of the Southeast with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon planning to add many more jobs in the near future. The addition of these high-paying jobs from tech firms will continue to fuel demand for office space and high-end apartments. While the long term outlook remains […]
Historic Events Impact Atlanta’s Commercial Real Estate Market
The events of 2020 have quickly put a stop to the longest running economic expansion in United States history. First, the world was seemingly caught off guard by the quick spread of the coronavirus bringing global economies to a screeching halt. Then, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th during an incident […]
The Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Market Faces Uncertainty but Long Term Projections Remain Strong
The economic impact of the global pandemic is being felt in markets around the world. The commercial real estate market in the Atlanta metropolitan area has already experienced immediate changes and will undoubtedly see more to come. This unprecedented event in the modern world has rapidly affected how businesses operate and will likely change market […]