Metro Atlanta neighborhood guides and comparisons
Homes near downtown Canton sit in the center of Cherokee County’s fastest-appreciating real estate corridor. Downtown Canton has quietly built one of north Georgia’s most active small-town commercial districts, anchored by the Canton Theatre, a growing restaurant scene, and the Etowah River trail system that runs through the heart of the city. Homes within 2…
A software developer called me last August. He worked fully remote for a company headquartered in San Francisco, earned a Bay Area salary, and had spent three months searching for a home in Alpharetta before the math stopped making sense. His budget was $500K. In Alpharetta, that bought a 2,400-square-foot home on a fifth of…
A family from New Jersey contacted me last March with a relocation timeline of 90 days. Both parents worked in tech, one with a new position at a company headquartered along the GA-400 corridor in Alpharetta. They had narrowed their search to three cities based on school ratings they found online: Alpharetta, Milton, and Johns…
I showed a custom home site in Milton last November to a couple relocating from Buckhead. They had spent 12 years in a 3,200-square-foot colonial on a quarter-acre lot where the neighbor’s kitchen window was close enough to hand over a cup of sugar. The Milton lot was 1.4 acres, bordered by mature hardwoods on…
A buyer from Roswell called me last January with a question I hear at least twice a month: “Is Woodstock the next Roswell?” She had been priced out of a renovation project in Roswell’s Canton Street area and started browsing listings along I-575 on a whim. What she found was a downtown with craft breweries,…
New construction near downtown Woodstock puts you within walking distance of one of Cherokee County’s most active dining and entertainment districts while buying at price points that start $100,000 below Alpharetta and $60,000 below Roswell. Downtown Woodstock’s Main Street has transformed over the past eight years from a few antique shops and a diner into…
New construction near the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta combines north Fulton’s strongest school system and employment access with direct trail connectivity that makes a lunchtime run or weekend bike ride a five-minute walk from your front door. The greenway is a paved, 8-mile multi-use trail running from Windward Parkway south through Alpharetta and into…
Homes near Halcyon in Forsyth County put you within walking distance of one of metro Atlanta’s newest mixed-use developments and within the boundary of Georgia’s top-ranked public school system. Halcyon sits at the intersection of McFarland Parkway and GA-141 in south Forsyth County, about two miles east of GA-400 at Exit 12. The development opened…
Fowler Park sits on 80 acres off Pilgrim Mill Road in Cumming, and it has become one of the features that buyers mention most when they describe where they want to live in southern Forsyth County. The park has eight baseball and softball fields, a splash pad, a dog park, and a playground complex that…
Real estate near the Roswell Mill historic district puts you within walking distance of the city’s cultural core and one of north metro Atlanta’s most photographed landmarks. The mill ruins, the covered bridge, Vickery Creek Falls, and the surrounding 10 acres of trails are the reason Roswell appears on every “best of Atlanta” list. They’re…
