by Parker

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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Is Atlanta a good place to live?

Is Atlanta a good place to live? I think so! I moved to Atlanta after college and have lived here ever since. I feel really lucky to live in Atlanta – It’s not the biggest city in America, but it’s big enough to have a lot of opportunities and things to do.

Atlanta is great if you love to travel. Most Atlantans probably take it for granted, but we are spoiled to have the busiest airport in the US in Atlanta. If you want to get out of town, you can get to pretty much anywhere non-stop. New York and Chicago are just a few hours away, you can get to Cancun and the Caribbean in a couple of hours, and you can get to London in 7 and Paris in 8!

Our great airport is part of what attracts companies to the Atlanta area. There are many Fortune 500 companies in Atlanta, such as Coca-Cola, UPS, Home Depot, Delta Airlines. Atlanta is also a growing tech hub.

Atlanta has become a technology hub as well, attracting established tech companies as well as start-ups to headquarter in Atlanta. Georgia Tech has a tech incubator program, which has been a big part of tech growth in Atlanta.

Atlanta also has a large film and tv industry.  Several years ago, the state of Georgia put a bunch of incentives in place to attract the film industry to Georgia. There’s a good chance that a tv show or movie that you’ve watched recently was filmed in Georgia. Two of the most popular tv shows, The Walking Dead and Stranger Things are filmed just outside Atlanta. If you happen to be in area that was a filming location, you will probably see a fan taking a selfie there!

What I also love about Atlanta is that it is large enough to attract lots of cultural events.

We have first-run Broadway plays at the FOX Theater. We’ve had Hamilton, Wicked and The Lion King come to Atlanta, just to name a few of the great shows you can see.

Atlanta also has a fine Art museum, the High museum, which attracts major art exhibits.

We have one of the largest botanical gardens in the southeast, The Atlanta Botanical Gardens. The gardens have a glass conservatory with rainforest and desert gardens, a rose garden, a newly renovated children’s garden and a kitchen garden where chef’s give cooking demonstrations. It’s a really fun place to spend an afternoon.

Atlanta also has a great music scene, whether you like to see bands in small clubs, or large amphitheaters, Atlanta is usually on a bands tour list.

Also, Atlanta has major league teams for football, basketball, baseball and soccer. The Atlanta United is the most recent addition to Atlanta, but they have a rabid, enthusiastic fan base! During soccer season, you see Atlanta United banners hung all over the city! Also, college football is huge in Atlanta (and Georgia) We have 2 college football teams that have a big rivalry – University of Georgia and Georgia Tech – the UGA/Tech game is one of the biggest ones of the year!

One of the best things about Atlanta is that you can spend pretty much all year outdoors. Most years, you don’t even need to wear a heavy winter coat. You can usually get by with a light jacket or puffy vest. So that means, you can grill out all year, eat on restaurant patios all year, do things like bike and hike, and play tennis and golf all year. Seriously. You can play tennis all year. There is a USTA winter league and they play. It never gets too cold there than maybe once or twice a decade when we get an ice storm, but that’s about it for cold!

Another perk of Atlanta being a larger city is that we have great shopping! We have everything from high-end shopping such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Cartier to stores such as Zara, Top Shop and Ikea. Atlanta is a very food oriented city, and we have the grocery shopping to support it. If there is something exotic you want to buy you will find it in Atlanta! We have the big chains like Kroger and Publix, the smaller chains like TJs, Aldi and Lidl, as well as several large farmers markets where you can find things like dragon fruit, durian, cilantro and baby bok choi! If you love to cook or eat, Atlanta has the food for you!

Speaking about gourmet food, you may not know it, but Atlanta is the home of Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-A and Krispy Creme! That is a meal right there for you! For fun, you can take your family to the World of Coca-Cola museum, go to the Krispy Kreme on Piedmont Road and see the donuts being made, or you can eat at the original Chick-fil-A south of the city, near the airport.

In the end, I think the best thing about Atlanta is the people.

If you are looking for a safe, stable and affordable place to live, Atlanta has a lot to offer.

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