By Taylor Anderson, PE on February 17, 2010
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.
Posted in public | Tagged real estate, residential market, social land development
By Taylor Anderson, PE on February 15, 2010
Some interesting news and updates on the residential front has been popping up recently. The lot count update for the metro Atlanta area showed up in an article in Friday’s Atlanta Business Chronicle.
At the end of 2009, the area had 149,277 lots, down slightly from 149,782 in 2008, but above the 143,253 lots in 2007.
The [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, residential market
By Taylor Anderson, PE on January 22, 2010
A new feature to The Blue Blog – What We Learned This Week – will highlight some of the articles that were shared via the Blue Blog Bits. For all the articles that were shared, please visit this website or subscribe to this RSS feed.
Residential News
The WSJ says we don’t need to get worked up [...]
Posted in public | Tagged commercial market, georgia dot, gwinnett county, residential market, what we learned this week
By Taylor Anderson, PE on June 1, 2009
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 [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on May 28, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in public | Tagged atlanta, economy, real estate, residential market
By Taylor Anderson, PE on March 17, 2009
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%) [...]
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By Taylor Anderson, PE on January 5, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in public | Tagged economy, real estate, residential market
By Taylor Anderson, PE on December 11, 2008
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 [...]
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