Georgia

The housing market has continued its steady march away from being affordable for many Atlantans, according to the latest report from the Atlanta Realtors Association.

The city of Savannah, Ga., more than doubled the number of properties targeted with a blight tax this year in a continued attempt to reduce the amount of unsafe and unsightly structures throughout its neighborhoods.

Atlanta's average home prices are up 5.8% since last year, according to a high-profile report on the nation's housing market issued Tuesday.

The retreat in Atlanta's housing market is becoming a rout as the number of home sales last month took a double-digit tumble from a year ago.

A supply-demand mismatch has continued to chill housing sales in metro Atlanta, according to a report from Remax of Georgia.

The CFPB's move is in line with the other banking regulators who have offices in Atlanta.

The housing market's long-running trend of fewer sales and higher prices has intensified, adding to worries about affordability in the region.

The local real estate market had a summer as hot and record-breaking as Savannah's temperatures with more than 1,500 homes selling across Bryan, Chatham and Effingham counties during June and July.

Metro Atlanta home prices have climbed 5.6% during the past year, reinforced by a strong economy and a worsening shortage of houses for sale.

The metro Atlanta housing market broke records in opposite direction last month, hitting a high in the price of homes that were sold and a low in the supply of homes listed for sale.

Public builder Beazer Homes USA plans to buy privately held Venture Homes for $65 million in a move that could make mortgage lending in Atlanta more competitive.

Savannah, Ga., area homes sales continue to heat up moving into the summer month's breaking records in both April and May.

Metro Atlanta home prices are up 9.9% from a year ago, even as the number of sales has slipped.

Atlanta was recently ranked among the top metros in the United States to buy rather than rent. But how much do you need to be earning to afford a home in town?

If Atlanta wins Amazon's second headquarters, the region will get wealthier, but the demand for homes will soar and the gap between haves and have-nots will also likely surge.

Metro Atlanta's incredible, shrinking inventory is at it again: the number of homes listed for sale continued to fall in April, according to a report issued by Re/Max of Georgia.

The company has also hit its goal of having half of total loans tied to customers around Atlanta.

Metro Atlanta home prices in April were up 8.7% from a year ago, according to a report from the Atlanta Realtors Association.

A special agent who used to work for an investigative arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement pleaded guilty to defrauding Freddie Mac and SunTrust Mortgage through a short sale.

The news of the data breach cast a shadow over relatively strong first-quarter earnings for the Atlanta bank.