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January 2023 Residential Intown Market Report

By Bill Adams, Founder, Adams Realtors & Adams Commercial Real Estate Welcome to the January 2023 Residential Intown Atlanta market report which is our only monthly report that compares calendar years. Our other monthly surveys are based on the last 12 months or a trailing 12-month model. Thus, the reports for the other months contain […]

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2023 Predictions Commercial Real Estate

While higher interest rates slowed the commercial real estate market in 2022, I predict rates will fall in 2023 as the rate of inflation begins to decrease during the year. The office market will improve as workers spend more time in the office and the supply of office properties diminishes as older buildings are converted […]

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Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Market 3rd Quarter 2022 Review

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, CRB, ALC As we reached the end of Q3 2022, the Atlanta commercial real estate market was still experiencing higher interest rates from the threat of a recession, inflation, the latest Covid-19 variant and the war in Ukraine. At the time, the unemployment rate was also down to 3.3%, the […]

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MARTA Rail Station Zoning Proposal

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, CRB, ALC Earlier this year the City of Atlanta proposed a change in the zoning ordinance affecting properties within the city limits near MARTA rail stations. The proposed ordinance would change the single-family zoning districts with an R-4 and R-4A designation along with the R-5 duplex zoning category located within […]

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Is There an ADU in Your Future?

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, CRB, ALC The National Association of Realtors (NAR) estimates that there is a shortage of 5.5 million housing units in the United States. This imbalance between demand and supply is one of the big reasons home prices have skyrocketed over the last decade. High home prices, according to NAR, especially […]

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Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Market Mid-Year 2022 Review

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, CRB, ALC As we reached the mid-point of 2022, the Atlanta Commercial Real Estate market was dealing with higher interest rates, the threat of a recession, inflation and the latest Covid-19 variant. Below I’ll review how the different real estate sectors – office, hospitality, multifamily, industrial, retail and land – […]

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The Challenges of Rezoning and Zoning Entitlements: Part 2

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB, Founder, Adams Realtors In Part One of the Zoning Entitlements blog, I reviewed how a developer should typically perform their due diligence by examining the existing zoning regulations and having discussions with neighbors and local community associations. A visit to the planning office is also in order. If […]

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The Challenges of Rezoning and Zoning Entitlements: Part 1

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB, Founder, Adams Realtors Many of our commercial real estate transactions involve urban properties in areas where the land use is in transition, meaning rezoning is often inevitable. A good example is a property that Adams Realtors’ Michael Reeves, CCIM sold in 2020 at Boulevard and the Atlanta Beltline […]

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Adams CRE Attends the 2022 CCIM Institute Mid-Year Governance Meetings

Three Adams Commercial Real Estate brokers – Michael Reeves, CCIM, Marion Williams, CCIM and Bill Adams, CCIM – attended the CCIM mid-year governance meetings in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 8 – 12. Over 300 Institute members from around the world attended the meeting, the largest number of attendees since the beginning of the Covid-19 […]

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How a 1031 Exchange Helped Decatur Gain a New School

By Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB, Founder, Adams Realtors In early 2015, Adams Realtors received an assignment from the City Schools of Decatur, Georgia to find a site for a new upper elementary school. Decatur, Georgia is a mature suburb of Atlanta with a population of about 21,000. The City of Decatur is in […]

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About Us

• As a native Atlantan who grew up in a house built by my grandparents in 1902 across the street from Grant Park, I have always loved the City’s downtown and historic intown neighborhoods. I went to school from the first grade through graduate school in downtown Atlanta.

As a child growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I witnessed and mourned the decline of those wonderful old “close-in” neighborhoods and their business districts. By the time I was in my early 20s in the late ’60s, I had gotten involved in early intown revitalization efforts in Grant Park under the auspices of a program known as “Model Cities.” After a tour of duty in the Army and Graduate Business School at Georgia State University, I joined the forerunner of the Grant Park Neighborhood Association in late 1974. In the early 1970s most intown neighborhoods were “redlined” by banks and neglected by the local government. The neighborhood revitalization movement in Atlanta was in its infancy. Banks refused to make real estate loans in these “high-risk” neighborhoods. The level of city services was poor and to make matters worse, the city had rezoned many of these neighborhoods from single-family to multifamily residential in the 1950s.

I became a neighborhood activist in Grant Park and, along with others, helped to bring about one of the largest “down zonings” in City history, converting the area back to single-family/duplex zoning from apartment zoning. I was also a community representative and later President of the local Neighborhood Housing Services program, which helped local lenders understand the housing market in the City’s neighborhoods and helped end their practice of not making loans in these communities. I later served as a neighborhood association and Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) Chair as well as a board member of the civic groups working to restore the Cyclorama in Grant Park and historic Oakland Cemetery.

All these experiences have had a profound effect on me and the company that I founded in 1979. I had a commercial real estate background but came to realize that strong neighborhoods are vital to a city’s quality of life and its commercial core. Adams Commercial’s approach to real estate has always reflected the values of neighborhood activism. Our transactions involve people, not just numbers. We are in the problem solving and information business. After more than 40 years of service, our goal is to complete our client’s purchase or investment while at the same time adding value to the community through that transaction.

I hope that you find our website to be a helpful tool whether you are planning to buy, sell or are trying to get a good feel for the state of the commercial real estate market in Atlanta. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at wtadams@adamscre.com. If you have an interest in commercial real estate, please visit our Adams Commercial Real Estate Website at adamscre.com.

Thanks,

Bill Adams, MBA, CCIM, ALC, CRB
President
ADAMS COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Atlanta, GA

Our Core Values: Success, Integrity, Wisdom, Dependability, Community

At Adams Commercial we define SUCCESS when our clients get up from their closing with a smile. To accomplish this,  we start by putting the needs of our clients first, which to us is the essence of INTEGRITY. We bring the collective WISDOM of our agents to every real estate deal … wisdom that comes only from the company’s years of business experience and expertise in intown markets. Whether it is showing up at the appointed time or making sure all details are noted and deadlines met, we believe DEPENDABILITY is also an essential ingredient of a successful real estate transaction. We believe that your successful purchase or sale adds value to COMMUNITY. And we are proud to play a role in building and sustaining a thriving community.

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