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Old 01-26-2007, 02:18 PM
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Location: Fairfax County, VA
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How very interesting... Atlanta is rated #10 in the top 10 markets of where to buy right now with a predicted increase of 24% in five years!

It is also currently #10 in the top 10 foreclosure markets.

National median price of a house in the US is about $245K

Median price in Atlanta area for 2006 was $173K and predicted to be $214K by 2011.

Obviously this is including the whole metro area out to a certain point. It would be nice to know the median house prices for inside the perimeter and by area or neighborhood too.
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Old 01-26-2007, 02:33 PM
 
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Default Where did you get this info?

I'd love to know the source of this info. We are debating between moving to Atlanta and a few other areas, and I would be VERY interested to see what #1 through #9 are....
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Old 01-26-2007, 02:53 PM
 
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Obviously this is including the whole metro area out to a certain point.
If the population is listed as over 5 million, then that would include the entire 13-county metropolitan area which reaches almost to Alabama now.
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:08 PM
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Oops sorry I should have posted those links. It is from CNNMoney.com.

http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz...invest/10.html

That link should take you to the page where Atlanta is highlighted as #10 in the places to buy right now category. And if you look to the right you should see links for where not to buy, bubble-proof markets and also top 10 foreclosure markets.

I find CNNMoney.com to be quite useful.
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:09 PM
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p.s. yes figment the population is listed as over 5 million and projected to increase by 600,000 by 2011! I plan to be one of those 600,000. :-)
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:13 PM
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FYI, 1 through 9 are:

Panama City, FL
Vero Beach, FL
Bridgeport, CT
Lakeland, FL
McAllen, TX
San Luis Obispo, CA
Wilmington, NC
Manchester, NH
Fort Collins, CO

And what is very interesting there is that Atlanta is the ONLY major metro area on that list. Other major cities either fall on the where not to buy (Detroit) or the are in the bubble-proof markets (San Fran, Boston).

To me this means that Atlanta is still one of the affordable metro areas around where real estate is predicted to do well.
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Old 07-24-2008, 09:11 PM
 
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How very interesting... Atlanta is rated #10 in the top 10 markets of where to buy right now with a predicted increase of 24% in five years!
Maybe they meant decrease
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Old 07-25-2008, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Maybe they meant decrease
I doubt it. While prices here were increasing for a while, home values were not considered *that* far off the mark in the Atlanta metro, while prices in many other metro areas were higher than they "should" be and are now seeing much greater corrections. I've been talking to people in the Twin Cities, for example, and the real estate market up there seems to be in much worse shape.
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Old 07-25-2008, 09:00 AM
 
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I think it gets worse in the 'metro'. Ya'll better pay damned close attention to Clayton.

As for lists- Homebanc was on the list of best places to work. So was Enron.
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