Summary: Z Real Estate
Providing Concise Information on Atlanta's Real Estate Market
How We Will Sell Your House. Are you becoming increasingly
dissatisfied with your realtor and are considering making a switch?
Are you growing tired of the “difficult market” speech and numerous
other excuses as to why your home is not selling. On top of all
this, are you getting attitude from your realtor (who advises you
to do one thing one week and changes her mind the following
week…and gets upset when you ask why…) Are you realistic about our
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Date Published: Feb 15, 2012 - 10:15 am
2) Residential Investment: Last year was the first time Residential
investment (RI) made a positive contribution to GDP since 2005.
RI consists of investment in new single family structures,
multifamily structures, home improvement and commissions on
existing home sales. RI is a leading indicator for the
economy. It is expected that RI will be modest in 2012, how
much will it increase? Most experts in the housing industry expect
residential investment to increase in the united states. See
marketwatch’s thoughts [...]
Date Published: Jan 26, 2012 - 7:09 pm
The other day I posted some questions for 2012. I am going to
go through them and add some predictions and thoughts for each
question. 1) House Prices How much further will house prices fall
on the repeat sales indexes (Case-Shiller, CoreLogic)? Will
prices bottom out in 2012? There is not way to precisely know
“normal” house prices. Changes in local house prices depend
on supply and demand. Under the assumption that there is no perfect
measure of house prices [...]
Date Published: Jan 18, 2012 - 1:54 pm
Over the next few weeks I am going to cover key economic indicators
effecting Atlanta in 2012. 1) House Prices: How much further will
house prices fall on the repeat sales indexes (Case-Shiller,
CoreLogic)? 2) Residential Investment: Last year was the first time
Residential investment (RI) made a positive contribution to GDP
since 2005. RI consists of investment in new single family
structures, multifamily structures, home improvement and
commissions on existing home sales. RI is a leading indicator
for the [...]
Date Published: Jan 16, 2012 - 5:28 pm
From September to October 2011 the home prices fell 5%. From
October 2010 to October 2011 home prices have fallen 11.7%. This is
very scary when compared to the rest of the United States. David
Stiff from S&P’s Housing blog, (S&P put out the Case
Shiller Report), said that he attributes the fall in housing prices
to a surge of foreclosure sales in those months. Most of these
sales happened to occur in lower price brackets. These
are areas where almost all of [...]
Date Published: Jan 09, 2012 - 6:46 am
The most recent Atlanta Case Shiller numbers show that home prices
in Atlanta have hit a new low.
http://www.housingviews.com/2011/12/08/three-markets-hit-new-lows-in-september/
Atlanta was one of three markets to hit a new low in September.
Home prices in Atlanta have hit may 1999 levels. Another
interesting statistic to look at is the price gain since 2000
compared to the ammount lost since the peak. This table can
be looked at in two ways. First, that the housing market in Atlanta
is now [...]
Date Published: Dec 18, 2011 - 8:10 am
A look at the statistics as we move into 2012.
Date Published: Dec 15, 2011 - 6:59 am
The Picture to the left, which is from the NY Times, shows that
Georgia has an extremly high level of home vaccancies. I thought it
was interesting and I should share with you.
Date Published: Dec 12, 2011 - 7:18 am
The Effects of a down payment on the housing market.
Date Published: Dec 10, 2011 - 8:23 am
Predictions of things to come in 2012.
Date Published: Dec 10, 2011 - 8:14 am