June 2024 Report on the Real Estate Market From Your Friends at Northwest Atlanta Properties This month we present a Hodgepodge of Interesting Articles   • Atlanta is the top city nationwide for Investor-Owned single-family rental properties.  72,000 properties and counting! Why? Because it’s a great investment! See the last article for more.   • Squatter’s insurance.  Not sure if this is a money grab related to recent headlines or a really valuable service but owners can get … [Read more...]

Wondering if it still makes sense to sell your house right now? The short answer is, yes. And if you look at the current number of homes for sale, you’ll see two reasons why. An article from Calculated Risk shows there are 15.6% more homes for sale now compared to the same week last year. That tells us inventory has grown. But going back to 2019, the last normal year in the housing market, there are nearly 40% fewer homes available now: Here’s a breakdown of how this benefits you when … [Read more...]

January 2024 Report on the Real Estate Market From Your Friends at Northwest Atlanta Properties Atlanta Is A Top Housing Market   Zillow recently cited Atlanta’s affordability and job growth as two factors making our market one of the top markets for 2024.  It is no surprise to us as we have seen our areas booming with building and new businesses springing up.  We are winning the competition for these businesses and jobs over cities in California and Florida primarily because … [Read more...]

This article states says that for the 10th straight year, Georgia is ranked as the best for business!  That’s 343,650 new jobs in the past 10 years for only the projects that the state was involved in.   In our areas, we’ve seen larger companies come into and create jobs: 2500 in Cartersville and Calhoun with a solar panel manufacturing plant (along with 500 supporting jobs) and dozens of others in Cherokee County and the surrounding areas. See some interesting facts and stats on Cherokee here. … [Read more...]

September 2023 Report on the Real Estate Market From Your Friends at Northwest Atlanta Properties 1031 Exchanges Under Attack? 1031 Exchanges have been a staple of investors for decades and allow an investor to defer capital gains taxes when they sell an investment property and buy another. See our 1031 Exchange report for a review of the ins and outs in layman’s terms. It is also on our website in the drop-down under “Real Estate Sales.” 1031 Exchanges are under attack again.  This happens … [Read more...]