Bob Strader on May 10th, 2011

While the housing market in Forsyth County has suffered like everywhere else, it has fared better than most of metro Atlanta. But new construction was a large part of development during the boom years in Forsyth. So it’s no surprise that there are still a fair amount of distressed new construction homes for sale in [...]

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Bob Strader on June 18th, 2010

No, Hedgewood Homes has not been resurrected but some of the same principles from Hedgewood (and an investor) have purchased 50 lots in Vickery and currently have 2 spec homes going up. The lots break down to 14 townhomes and 36 single family lots, most of which are on slabs, with just a 4 [...]

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Bob Strader on April 20th, 2010

The first time home buyer tax credit is definitely doing what it should be doing as sales for homes in that price range have surged over the past 30 days. A look at the numbers is revealing, there were 150 home sales in March 2009, 170 in March 2010 but at the time of this [...]

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Bob Strader on November 4th, 2009

New Construction Defying The Market?
There is still concern and doubt about our housing recover here in Metro Atlanta but are home builders defying the market in Cumming or do they know something that many home buyers still seem to ignore? Certainly a great number of first-time home buyers have deemed the tax credit enough incentive [...]

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