Buying and building new construction homes in metro Atlanta
She had been renting a two-bedroom apartment in Brookhaven for three years. The lease renewal arrived in August with a $200/month increase, which pushed her rent to $2,150. That same week, she ran a mortgage calculator and discovered that a $380,000 home with 3.5% down would cost her roughly $2,280/month, including taxes and insurance. The…
A new construction buyer agent in Atlanta does one thing the builder’s onsite sales team cannot: represent your financial interests. The builder employs the onsite agent. The builder pays the onsite agent’s salary. The onsite agent’s job performance is measured by how many homes the builder sells and at what margin. That is the arrangement,…
New homes in the Atlanta metro area are going up across 19 communities that Velocity Real Estate actively covers, from the luxury estates in Milton to the entry-level production homes in Canton and Woodstock. The market spans a price range of roughly $350,000 to well over $1.5 million, depending on the builder, the lot, and…
Luxury new construction in Atlanta starts at roughly $700,000 and runs well past $2 million in communities across Milton, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, and north Fulton County. At this price point, the decisions multiply. Custom or semi-custom? Production luxury or boutique builder? Estate lot or community lot? Four-sided brick or wood frame with stone and stucco?…
Selling a home in Atlanta with the right agent and the right strategy is the difference between accepting an offer and creating a bidding environment where buyers compete for the right to purchase your property. Velocity Real Estate has broken neighborhood price records, generated 25+ offers on a single listing in one weekend, and consistently…
A couple relocated from Denver last spring. They had a budget, two school-aged kids, and a single requirement that kept shrinking their options: walkability. Not walkable-to-a-park walkability. They wanted the kind of place where you could leave the car in the garage on a Saturday morning and walk to breakfast, a bookstore, and a playground…
The call came on a Thursday afternoon last October. A product manager at a fintech company in Midtown had accepted a hybrid schedule (three days in office, two remote) and wanted to move his family out of their Brookhaven rental. Two kids, ages four and seven. A golden retriever. A budget of $650,000. And a…
Last quarter, a builder client called to ask whether they should release Phase 3 of a 210-lot community in Cherokee County or hold lots until spring. They had absorption data from their own sales office, but they wanted the broader picture: where was the metro market heading into Q1 2026, and did the Cherokee County…
The buyer had narrowed her search to two communities in Forsyth County. Both offered four-bedroom floor plans in the low $500Ks. Both backed to tree buffers. Both sat in the same school zone. On paper, they were interchangeable. Then we walked the construction sites. In the first community, the framing crew had left gaps between…
A couple from Denver called me last October. Both engineers, both spreadsheet people. They had relocation packages, a school-zone shortlist, and a budget that put them squarely in the $550K to $700K range across north Fulton and Cherokee counties. They had also spent four months browsing Zillow, where every listing looked the same: a rendering,…
