real estate
The Next Decade of Housing
From the Urban Land Institute:
John McIlwain, ULI Senior Resident Fellow for Housing, describes the U.S. housing market, and how it will be affected by demographic trends. John’s talk was recorded at a gathering of ULI trustees on Jan. 26, 2010.
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 22,502 [...]
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 [...]
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%) [...]
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, the [...]
AJC: Experts: North Georgia housing market in depression
That was the headline in one of today’s AJC stories.
My reaction – no kidding.
In fact, that’s the same words used by a client earlier this year. It was quite obvious that the problems were huge. In fact, they’re bigger than huge – they may be insurmountable for a long, long time. Take a look at [...]
Economic Indicators Show Steep Declines – Recovery?
The Mortgage Bankers Assocation numbers for November are pretty grim. For those in the land development industry, these numbers are pretty stark, although not surprising.
Private residential construction dropped 3.5 percent while private nonresidential construction spending fell 0.7 percent — the third decline in the last four months. A large drop in utility construction spending [...]
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