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What is the best public elementary school in Atlanta?
Every year we blog about Atlanta’s top public elementary Schools. Why? Quite simple at a high level – Atlanta’s real estate market performance has been heavily co-related to school performance. And why is that? Well, this is not simple. Politics, demographics, availability of educational alternatives, etc. all play important roles. As far as real estate is concerned, a significant portion of property taxes are allocated to schools in the area. Where people are spending a high proportion of their income on… Read more
Top Small Team Companywide
Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty had a 40% increase in sales volume in 2011 over 2010. Heery Brothers is delighted to play an important part by being the Number 1 Small Team Companywide. We are joined by many other world-class Realtors that are outperforming the market with superior price performance, days on market and distinctive marketing.
For more than 15 years, Heery Brothers has ranked in the top 1% to 2% of residential Realtors nationwide. Here is a summary… Read more
The Normal Short Sale in Buckhead
Heery Brothers has worked on Short Sales for many years. In this article, we will explain one way in which they became a more normal part of the market in the last year. We have represented both buyers and sellers. For those buyers looking for a good deal on quality property in Buckhead, there are more short sales than foreclosures. Towards that end, something very interesting has happened – short sales had better “price performance” than normal sales in 2011.… Read more
Impressive End of Year for the Atlanta Residential Real Estate Market
In Metro Atlanta:
- The number of active listings have dropped 28% across the city (Dec ’11 vs Dec ’10).
- The number of pending sales as of year’s end is up 20% from the prior year.
- The number of closed sales for the year was higher than any of the prior 3 years.
In the upper tier (over $750,000):
- Available inventory is down by 24%
- There were 17 more sales in this price bracket in 2011 than
Welcome to the New Heery Brothers Web Site
The new HeeryBrothers.com was launched today. Our idea going into this was to have a web site that:
- Is beautiful,
- Integrates video and social media, and
- Gives users what they want immediately via a simple and clean design.
We look forward to your feedback.