Atlanta Residential Market Update
Some interesting news and updates on the residential front has been popping up recently. The lot count update for the metro Atlanta area showed up in an article in Friday’s Atlanta Business Chronicle. At the end of 2009, the area had 149,277 lots, down slightly from 149,782 in 2008, but above the 143,253 lots in ...read more
More on the flood
Yesterday, I mentioned that even though none of the daily rain events amounted to more than 10-year storm event, the cumulative effect of a week’s worth of storms manifested itself as a 100-year storm on Monday and into Tuesday. Turns out that the US Geological Survey is actually saying that in many cases, this was ...read more
Gwinnett County files notice of appeal on federal ruling
Gwinnett County filed a notice of appeal on a federal ruling earlier this year that would no longer allow most of metro-Atlanta use Lake Lanier for its drinking water, despite the fact that it is its primary potable water reservoir and has been for decades. That this is even an issue, despite the fact that ...read more
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
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
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
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