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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]