Georgia

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.

Home sales last month in metro Atlanta dropped more than 10% from a year ago, according to a report from the Atlanta Realtors Association.

Metro Atlanta home prices rose 6.5% during the past year, outpacing the national average and increasingly squeezing first-time home buyers.

There was a modest decline in hurricane-related delinquent mortgages in February, a sign that there are lingering problems in the affected markets.

March 20--Metro Atlanta home prices are up 9.8 percent from a year ago, while the supply of homes for sale has continued to shrink, according to a report from Re/Max.

Incenter Mortgage Advisors is putting up for bid a $712.8 million package of government-sponsored enterprise and Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights concentrated in the Southeast.

After narrowing its search to 20 cities, housing experts predict Amazon will choose Atlanta or Northern Virginia as its second headquarters, which will have a profound impact on both housing and the economy in and around the chosen city.

Metro Atlanta's housing market showed its fifth consecutive year of solid gains last year, but the shrinking supply in homes for sale has continued to drop into the red zone.

Loans late by 90 days or more are increasingly concentrated in parts of Florida, Georgia and southeast Texas as fallout from the storms continues to weigh on the market.

The new tax law helped boost fourth-quarter results at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta, while the recent rate hikes led to gains in spread income.

Mayor Keisha Bottoms said housing affordability, transparency, public safety, education, and transportation are priorities.