ATLANTA HOUSING MARKET 2021 – ATLANTA REAL ESTATE NEWS SUMMER 2021

Hey this is Parker Smith – your favorite Atlanta realtor!

Here’s a quick Atlanta real estate market update for July 2021. I had a feeling at the end of May, beginning of June that the market was starting to loosen up a little bit. Additional inventory was coming on to the market, and indeed when i reviewed the numbers for June inventory was up 14. That’s huge!

So what does that mean for buyers? It means that the inventory crisis, which has been going on for over a year, has started to abate. And, this is very good news for buyers! Let’s take a quick look at some maps here that are going to illustrate this for you. This first map shows a two mile radius in North Decatur, a very popular in-town neighborhood, and this is the total number of houses that have sold in the last six months:  323. These are closed listings done deals –  323 houses.

What’s interesting is that today in the middle of July, there are almost 80 houses on the market in that exact same area. Let me show you – you can see on this map there’s almost 80 listings on the market, and what this means is that today alone, there is 25 of the total inventory that was available in the first half of the year on the market right now looking for a buyer. That’s a significant improvement. Here’s one more map that shows pending sales. These are homes that have cleared their due diligence, and are set to close typically in the next few weeks. This is another 60 houses, so if you add that to the 80 active listings, we get about 44 percent of the previous six months total either active or ready to close.

This is an incredible turnaround for the Atlanta real estate market, and it’s made things much more balanced for buyers. Homes are staying on the market longer with fewer bidding wars. I don’t want to say that the inventory problems are over because they certainly aren’t, but the end of covid has definitely made people a lot more comfortable having their house on the market, having strangers walking through their house.

It looks like prices are starting to stabilize, businesses are relocating their employees again, so all of this is a very positive development if you’re a buyer, and frankly it’s a positive development if you’re a seller as well. So if you were considering a move to Atlanta, but were frightened off by all the negative talk about the Atlanta market, I think you can put your fears to rest. Things are definitely getting back to normal, and it’s very nice to see kind of after the last year of total madness. As always, if you’re thinking about making the move to Atlanta please give me a call my number’s in the box below love to talk to you thanks!