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MOVING TO ATLANTA? JOBS HIRING IN ATLANTA GA

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Hey, it’s Parker your favorite Atlanta REALTOR! If you’ve been thinking about making the move to Atlanta, you may be wondering about job opportunities! So today I wanted to showcase some of the excellent job opportunities we have in Atlanta.

Now I’m going to primarily showcase health care and technology, but I want you to think about all of the other downstream opportunities that are created by these large investments these companies are making. Before we get started, if you want to know anything about the Atlanta business climate, I highly recommend that you subscribe to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. It’s the one newspaper I read every day, and it’s a terrific source for information about all the opportunities available in Atlanta.

All right, let’s get going! Now I’m not going to get too far down in the weeds with each of these, I just wanted to give you a high level overview, give you some ideas about where you might find employment in Atlanta.

Microsoft is continuing to bet big in Atlanta. They are buying up some very significant pieces of land, both inside the perimeter on Atlanta’s west side, and also in some of the outlying suburbs. The plan is for Atlanta to be their east coast headquarters, and according to this article, it is possible they might create as many as 10,000 jobs.

Visa is expanding their midtown Atlanta footprint, and could bring in as many as a thousand new jobs. Innovative Surgical makes robotic tools for minimally invasive surgeries – they’re planning a 1,200 employee expansion with jobs in medical training, manufacturing, engineering, administration. Innovative Surgical is located in Peachtree Corners, which is northeast of Atlanta, outside the perimeter. It’s a very nice community up there.

Our last tech insight is that of our own homegrown email marketing company:  Mailchimp just sold to Intuit for a cool 12 billion dollars!Mailchimp is moving their offices to a new location while they merge with Intuit, and they’re hiring a bunch of new people to help merge the two products, so that should be really an exciting development!

Let’s look at our hospital systems, and see what they’re up to. There are major employment opportunities in Atlanta’s healthcare systems: Emory Hospital is currently building a one billion dollar medical complex at North Druid Hills Road and I-85 right. Across the street, Children’s Healthcare is investing one and a half billion dollars into what I’ve heard will be the fourth or fifth largest hospital complex in the United States. Northside Hospital Gwinnett is building a 400 million dollar patient tower in Lawrenceville. Lawrenceville is in Gwinnett county, and the growth up there has been absolutely explosive. It is on track, I think in the next five years to be the largest county by population in the Atlanta metro area. Wellstar Health System is spending 263 million on a new tower in Marietta. All told this is over three billion dollars in new health care investments by hospitals that are already some of Atlanta’s largest employers.

Emory is Atlanta’s number one employer. Northside Hospital is number three on the list. Wellstar Healthcare and Piedmont Hospital come in at number six and seven, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is Atlanta’s 12th largest employer. So when these multi-billion dollar projects are happening in health care and technology, it’s not just good news if you happen to be in it or a doctor or a nurse – it’s good news if you have any skill set. Whether you work in transportation, whether you are an electrician, plumber, if you’re in logistics supply chain management, administration. It creates so many opportunities – it’s like ripples in a pond.

So keep your eyes out – pay attention, you know get that subscription to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read it every week, because there are always great ideas about where you can find employment in Atlanta. So if you’re thinking of making the move to Atlanta, as always my number’s in the box down below. Feel free to give me a call – I talk to people every week – a lot of people lately from California, New York. I talk to people every week that are planning on making their moves to Atlanta. Some are coming next month, some are coming three months, six months, but it’s never too early to start having that conversation:  learning about the great neighborhoods around Atlanta, figuring out where you want to live. Make your plans – make your move!

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ATLANTA GEORGIA REAL ESTATE – SEPTEMBER 2021 ATLANTA REAL ESTATE NEWS

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Hey, this is Parker, your favorite Atlanta REALTOR. It has been a very busy few weeks for me in Atlanta, and we are definitely overdue for a new video! So, I wanted to share some quick on the ground updates about what’s going on in the Atlanta market right now. Let’s get going!

The last few weeks, I’ve had a bunch of buyers in town, and I have been all over Atlanta looking at houses. Everywhere from Midtown all the way up to Milton, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, and Lawrenceville. I’ve been everywhere – I can tell you right now, there are so many houses on the market in Atlanta, that have been waiting for a buyer. These are houses that have been on the market three, four, five weeks, and they’re just waiting for a good buyer. These are houses that last spring would have sold in one weekend with multiple offers. Now they’re on the market for a month, generating one offer!

So things have softened up considerably here. I’m definitely not going to say that it’s a buyer’s market by any stretch of the imagination, but it feels very balanced right now, and things are operating at a much more normal pace. So, for example, I was out with clients last week –  we were looking in town, looking at city of Decatur, and we looked at five houses, and actually came away with three really good choices that were priced very reasonably – three excellent options out of five houses that we looked at. It’s very surprising, I mean it’s probably been 17 or 18 months since I’ve seen that kind of availability, and I’m seeing this trend everywhere. It’s not just in town, like I said, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, Lawrenceville – it’s everywhere!

So, if you got totally spooked by all the panic buying last spring, I can assure you that is over. It’s a much more normal market now. It’s brisk, it’s very busy, but it’s not out of control – like roller coaster careening down the tracks wheels about to fall off kind of insanity, which is what it was like in the spring.

So if you’re thinking of making the move to Atlanta, now is an excellent time to be looking. I always encourage people to look in the fall – it’s an excellent time to go out and pick up some bargains. If you’re in the market, as always my phone number is down below. Feel free to give me a call, and we’ll have some more video content out later this week – thanks!

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BUYING A HOUSE IN ATLANTA? ATLANTA HOUSING MARKET 2021 – ATLANTA REAL ESTATE NEWS SUMMER 2021

BUYING A HOUSE IN ATLANTA? ATLANTA HOUSING MARKET 2021 – ATLANTA REAL ESTATE NEWS SUMMER 2021

 

Hey, this is Parker, your favorite Atlanta REALTOR, and I’m back with a quick update on the Atlanta housing market for August 2021. Let’s get going! Things are really starting to settle down here – there’s more inventory coming on to the market, and I expect to see more as we get into the fall, and people settle into their normal routines. I’ve got a couple of listings coming up – things are looking pretty good!

Buyer demand has also dropped in the last two months. It’s fairly normal for demand to fall in Atlanta during the summer, but what I think more importantly has happened, is that all of that excess demand – sort of the panic buying caused by Covid – has just kind of fizzled out. Houses are staying on the market longer, with fewer multiple offer situations, and a lot of the houses my team members have sold recently have just gotten one single offer. One good offer is all you need!

I’m also detecting some buyer pushback after the big run up in prices. You know, buyers have access to all of the pricing information, and if they go onto a listing, and they see that – okay, the owner just bought this house in 2019, and now it’s on the market for $250,000 more than they paid for it less than two years ago, it kind of leaves a bad taste in their mouth, and frankly, if buyers look at a house, and it the pricing just looks opportunistic, kind of like make me move type pricing, they just won’t even bother to look at it.

I’m also detecting a very slight downward price correction. We’ll obviously have to wait a couple of months to see what the true numbers are, but it feels like that’s what’s happening. If you’re in the under $300,000 first time home buyer bracket, you’re really still facing some challenges in the Atlanta market, especially if you want to live in town or somewhere inside the perimeter. But, it’s not nearly as desperate as it was just four months ago. Once you get into the $500,000 plus bracket, things are a lot more normal. Houses are sitting on the market, fewer multiple offer situations. Sometimes as I said – just a single offer to sell the house. It’s a much more normal market pace, and frankly, it’s a lot more pleasurable to work like this!

So, what does this all mean if you’re a buyer? To sum it all up:  it means you have more choices and there’s less pressure to make a snap decision on a house. It’s not like you’re walking into a house thinking oh there’s 20 other people that are trying to get this house how am i going to get it? It’s a much calmer pace in the market and frankly it works better for all parties concerned, especially if you’re a buyer. So again, if you’re interested in moving to Atlanta, please look in the box down below get my phone number send me an email I’d love to talk to you thanks!

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The Best Place to Live in Georgia

Our local newspaper, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, recently ran an article about the best place to live in the state of Georgia.

According to the article, each year, data research website Niche ranks the best places to live in the United States.

The ranking provides a comprehensive assessment of the overall livability of an area, taking into account location, quality of local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics and access to amenities. In an attempt to measure the overall quality of an area in Georgia, Decatur came out on top with an A+ overall rating.

 

 

 

The city of Decatur was originally incorporated in 1823, and it’s about six miles east of downtown Atlanta. It’s a great place to live if you work in downtown Atlanta, because you never have to get on the highway to get downtown, and you can just take Dekalb Avenue.

The city of Decatur is a very charming area of Atlanta. It has beautiful architecture. Most of the homes are Craftsman bungalow style – a lot of Victorian houses as well.

It’s close to Agnes Scott University and there’s a beautiful little downtown filled with restaurants and shops, and access to Marta, which is our local subway. And another plus for the city of Decatur is it’s got terrific schools. They’re actually some of the best in Atlanta.

Due to the high demand for the city of Decatur, and the relatively small geographic area that it covers, prices are quite high for the Atlanta area. To move into the city of Decatur in this current market, you’re looking at spending about $500,000 on maybe about a 1,000 square feet, and that house is probably not going to be updated.

The demand is extremely high there. Most houses in Decatur are going to be $500k+. Many of them are going to go for over $1 million.

Many of the people who want to live in the city of Decatur (people who work at children’s healthcare or Emory or the cdc) find that they’re actually priced out of that market. They can’t buy as much houses they need, given those current prices.

Many people who are priced out of the city of Decatur area start looking in the North Decatur area, which is obviously right next to that and they find much better home values.

North Decatur, which includes the 30329, 3003 and 30345 zip codes, has a lot of the positives of the city of Decatur, with a more accessible price point.

Also, speaking about accessibility, the North Decatur area is actually more accessible to the rest of Atlanta. It’s right off a major highway: I-85, but you can get to areas like Buckhead, Virginia Highlands and Midtown without ever getting on the highway.

One of the negatives about city of Decatur is that due to its location, it adds about 20 minutes onto any trip within the city (Atlanta), other than going into downtown Atlanta.

Now, North Decatur does not have the charming bungalows and Victorian homes like the city of Decatur, but it does have some spectacular mid-century modern homes. There are many straightforward brick ranches, but there are a lot of pockets of really cool high style mid-century homes.

In fact there’s a whole neighborhood called Amberwood that is the best example of mid-century architecture in Atlanta. When the neighborhood was built, it was required that each home be unique and designed by an architect. Robert Green, who was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed several Amberwood homes.

Okay, so let’s talk about the North Decatur home market right now. The median sales price is around $460k which means that half of the homes are below $460k and half of them are above $460k. A one bedroom one bath condo will run you anywhere from about $150 to $180k. A typical three bedroom two bath 1960s ranch or split level type home, you can find for as low as $400k. A very nicely renovated ranch or split level home is going to be anywhere from $500,000 and up. The most expensive home on the market right now in this area is a $2.3 million dollar home, which is seven bedrooms and five baths and it’s a brand new build.

I live in North Decatur because I think it’s great and I think you will too! So if you’re thinking about moving to Atlanta and you’re going to be working for Emory University, Emory Hospital Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta or the CDC you really need to take a look at the North Decatur area it’s extremely convenient to all those locations we’ve got some some of the best restaurants in Atlanta. We have fantastic schools – it’s just a great community filled with great people and I think you’re going to love it!

So if you’re considering moving to Atlanta think about moving to the best place in Georgia.

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