Far too often we as Real Estate professionals succumb to the panic factor that comes along with the following words as it relates to the market: “bubble, burst, slump, slow”. We read about it in the papers, we hear it in the media and we hear it in the objections from our buyers. So how do we get past this[...]
The more than 180,000 new jobs created in March represent the 43rd month that job growth has increased. This is very good news. The unemployment rate remains low at 4.4%. Since 1999, the U.S. ecomony has added on average 140,000 jobs a month. This equates to 1.7 million jobs per year. For more detailed news, view Alex Carrick's column at Building[...]
This weeks Nation's Building News, the official online weekly newspaper of NAHB, reports that Atlanta is expected to have positive housing growth in 2007. The report, extracted from the South Atlantic Division states: Atlanta, which accounts for about two-thirds of housing starts in Georgia, as well as Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Raleigh and Winston-Salem in North Carolina, all declined last[...]