In some of the largest Southeastern markets, including Atlanta, exploding development, labor and material costs are pushing new home prices beyond the reach of most consumers. If building continues the way it has for the past 40 years, the new “floor” on retail lot prices will yield a new home that only 15 to 20 percent of all consumers can[...]
MarketNsight adds Jacksonville, Florida to the growing list of Southeast cities that it serves. This addition allows current and future clients in Northeast Florida to utilize MarketNsight’s Feasibility Matrix® program to evaluate product, pricing and place, and make educated decisions before purchasing land. Builders, bankers, Realtors and developers in Jacksonville will find MarketNsight to be an indispensable tool for calculating the[...]
Cutting-edge tool allows for easy housing market analysis MarketNsight announces the addition of lot and land prices to its Ranking application. This upgrade provides easy housing market analysis by providing builders, developers, Realtors and financial institutions the ability to perform savvy searches and make informed decisions on land purchases, product positioning and pricing. The possibilities of the updated Ranking application are almost[...]
MarketNsight recently hosted its MarketWatch Atlanta event releasing data on the state of the Atlanta new homes industry to a crowd of more than 400 builders, developers, bankers, Realtors and others in the industry. John Hunt, president of MarketNsight and ViaSearch, pointed out the distressing gap between new homes and resales at certain price points in the Atlanta metro area.[...]
MarketNsight is excited to announce its next MarketWatch Atlanta on Thursday, June 7, 2018, at SunTrust Park! Housing economy expert John Hunt of MarketNsight and ViaSearch will be joined by Dr. Rajeev Dhawan of Georgia State’s Economic Forecasting Center for Economics 101, a discussion regarding supply and demand in Atlanta. In March, permits declined unexpectedly across the country. The focal point[...]
MarketNsight announces the release of its new Ranking application making analyzing the housing market easier for builders, developers, Realtors and financial institutions. This cutting-edge tool allows users to rank and sort new home closings with almost limitless possibilities. Options for ranking include sorting by builder*, subdivision, school (down to the elementary school level), zip code and county. Additionally, both primary[...]
If you are a builder, Realtor, developer or lender who wants to take your knowledge of the housing market to the next level, be sure to follow MarketNsight on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. As a result of decades of research, housing economy expert and MarketNsight principal, John Hunt, provides excellent data and insights that can help housing industry professionals make[...]
At the most recent MarketWatch Atlanta, MarketNsight principal John Hunt forecasted that the Atlanta housing market, like the housing markets nationwide, will experience moderate but not spectacular growth in 2018. Additionally, Hunt had several pieces of advice and useful information for Atlanta's new home builders, lenders and Realtors. Hunt predicted a five percent growth for the Atlanta new home market in[...]
MarketNsight is excited to announce that its customers can now plot pending sales on its Feasibility Matrix, a groundbreaking platform that helps builders gauge the feasibility of their new home communities. “We are the only platform that can give you a complete overview of the market with past [closings], present [pending] and potential future [inventory] sales all in one place,” said[...]
Housing economy expert John Hunt of MarketNsight and ViaSearch has identified an interesting trend in residential housing contracts across 11 Southeast markets. January home sales were hot, February through April sales cooled considerably, and early reports of May data show sales rebounding and increasing over May 2016. Hunt explains, “There is an absolute ceiling on home prices, and the market will[...]