new home buyers: Atlanta, Georgia Ranked #3 on Forbes.com - America's Fastest-Growing Large and Small Metros - 02/25/08 07:25 AM
In our continued effort to post positive real estate news and information regarding our great city of Atlanta, The Gebhardt Group is proud to report that ATLANTA was named #3 on the list of America's Fastest-Growing Large and Small Metros in an article posted on January 30, 2008 on Forbes.com
With a projected total "Gross Metropolitan Product" (GMP) for 2007 through 2012 coming in at a whopping 22.81%, the article describes Atlanta as a "job magnet" epitomizing the "economic boom of the Southeast."
The population in our great city has doubled in the past 20 years and is expected to grow another 11% by the year 2012.
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new home buyers: UPDATED WITH VIDEO! You've Got to "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" | Look on the Bright Side of the Real Estate Market - 11/15/07 06:43 AM
Real estate market bringing you down? Well, in the immortal words of Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters...
 
"Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive"You've got to accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch on to the affirmative, Don't mess with Mr. In-between.
You've got to spread joy up to the maximum, Bring gloom down to the minimum, Have faith, or pandemonium liable to walk upon the scene.
To illustrate His last remark: Jonah in the whale, Noah in the arc, What did they do Just when everything looked so dark?
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new home buyers: "GET HOME ATLANTA!" Initiative by Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association Encourages Buyers | Atlanta real estate - 10/15/07 06:40 AM
A new initiative by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association called GET HOME ATLANTA! encourages buyers to enter the marketplace declaring, "It's a great time for a buyer to be in the market!"
Currently ranked in the top 4 cities nationwide for home sales, Atlanta has not seen the drastic downturn of the real estate market that other cities across the U. S. have seen.
The website features a Top Ten List of Reasons to Buy Now, which includes living the American dream of home ownership, the still historically-low interest rates currently available to qualified buyers, tax deductions, and wealth-building.
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