What's hot and what's not? Based on the popularity of our Top 25 Atlanta Home Builders rankings, we decided to release the Top 20 Atlanta New Home Communities as ranked by MarketNsight. Atlanta new home communities included in the list are ranked by the number of homes closed in 2022 in the metro Atlanta real estate market. This list combines[...]
Build-to-Rent (BTR) continues to make headlines. NIMBYs (Not in My Backyard) hate it. Investors and renters love it. But why the trend, and what's driving it? St. Bourke, an Atlanta-based asset management and property development company, takes a deeper dive into the driving force behind single-family BTR. Is it Wall Street or Main Street? Build-to-Rent single-family homes is a trend that[...]
In 2018, MarketNsight was one of the first in the nation to sound the alarm on the effects of rising interest rates on housing; rates increased from 4% in January to 4.8% by October of that year. At the same time, new pending sales started dropping and went negative as rates peaked in October of that year. New pending sales[...]
So Much for the End of the Housing Boom: MarketNsight offers an abbreviated update for the month of August. According to MarketNsight Principal John Hunt, July trends continued as resale pending sales were up in the last week of August more than 40% over the same period in 2019, and even up 10% over an incredible 2021 (See chart 1 below).[...]
Parkland Communities Inc., a privately-owned, multifaceted real estate development and investment firm in Atlanta, announces site plan approval for new Stonecrest development comprised of 388 lots in the City of Stonecrest located on Hayden Quarry Road at Turner Hill Road. “This 388-home community is intended for missing middle housing,” Parkland Communities President Jim Jacobi said. “It is situated perfectly near I-20 for[...]
Wondering if there is a resale bubble? Or perhaps the Atlanta housing market is back to normal? MarketNSight recently presented at the in-person Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association Board of Directors meeting. At the event, the firm compared Atlanta's pendings for new and resale from March through April 21, 2021, to the same period the year before. Since March through[...]
MarketNsight Principal John Hunt recently projected that May new construction pending sales would be up 12% from 2018 closings. Opportunely, once all of the data was in, May pending new home sales were up a whopping 28% year-over-year! “In fact, this is the highest number of pending sales for May since the great recession,” Hunt said. “This is a big deal!” Hunt’s[...]
Jackson EMC returned as a sponsor of MarketWatch Atlanta, a biannual event that shares data on the state of the Atlanta new home industry. As one of the largest electric cooperatives in Georgia and the nation, Jackson EMC values the information provided at the event, which is hosted by MarketNsight. John Hunt, principal with Atlanta-based market research firm MarketNsight, and Dr.[...]
MarketNsight recently hosted its biannual MarketWatch Atlanta event releasing data on the state of the Atlanta new home industry to a crowd of more than 400 home builders, developers, bankers, Realtors and others in the industry. MarketNsight and ViaSearch President John Hunt gave an overview of the Atlanta housing market and shared predictions for the remainder of the year. At the[...]
MarketNsight is excited to announce its next MarketWatch Atlanta on Thursday, June 13, 2019, at City Springs! Housing economy expert John Hunt of MarketNsight and ViaSearch will be joined by Dr. Rajeev Dhawan of the Georgia State Economic Forecasting Center to unveil the new custom mapping tool from MarketNsight and discuss the state of Atlanta’s housing economy, the future of[...]