More Atlanta housing news
The Atlanta Business Chronicle had a good summary of the housing news around the metro area today. Below is a small portion of a lengthy article. For the 12-month period ending in March, Atlanta saw 8,972 housing starts — ranking No. 5 out of the metro areas tracked by Metrostudy. Houston topped the list with ...read more
So much housing news – where to start?
The amount of news on the housing front over the last week or so is staggering. If you’re keeping up with the articles I share, you’re on top of the game. (If you use an RSS reader, use this feed…) However, I wanted to add a little to the mix of articles and organize them ...read more
Georgia going after rail funds…
It seems the timing on my first infrastructure post was impeccable. GDOT announced on Thursday that it would seek federal funding for rail. It even cleared up my question, to a degree, on where the missing link from Louisville to Atlanta was. Well, President Obama’s plan has it missing, but apparently the various state DOTs ...read more
Part 1 – Atlanta Infrastructure – Where we are and where we need to go
Metro-Atlanta was not geographically located very well for the now 5.7+ million inhabitants that call it home. First, the only major water source is the Chattahoochee River, a very small river by drainage basin standards, especially where it feeds metro-Atlanta’s primary drinking source – Lake Lanier. The topography is extreme for a large city – ...read more
Moving forward on infrastructure
America’s infrastructure is in desperate need of attention and if there is indeed one area where government serves the people – all the people – it’s in the responsibility of providing safe, reliable and environmentally sound infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has almost failed in that duty. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, our infrastructure ...read more
Residential Market Update
In my previous blog, I had said the next blog would be about Atlanta’s infrastructure. I still plan on doing that blog – in fact, I think infrastructure is the single most important long term investment for the future of Atlanta (and the United States). I was saddened to see how few dollars (around 5%) ...read more
How to keep up-to-date quickly on land development in the southeast and add hours back to your day
How’s that for a title? One amazing tool that many folks don’t know about or understand is called an RSS feed. This blog has one. And I’ve even set one up to feed the most current news in land development, with an obvious focus on the southeast and, in particular, the southeast. But what is ...read more
The 2009 Residential Real Estate Market
What is 2009 shaping up like in the residential real estate market? That’s the question that many are trying to figure out, and while nobody knows where we will be this time next year, we can look at a few things that may give us a glimpse of what it likely will be like. First, ...read more
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