What's going on in the real estate market today?

Here are the five things you need to know about the red-hot real estate market and the rising prices and demand for homes.

Home featured in 'Cobra Kai' up for sale in Marietta

The Marietta home has hosted multiple presidents, was featured on HGTV, and served as the on-screen home for a "Karate Kid." It could all be yours for $2.6 million.

US housing market booms as buyers enter bidding wars amid low supply

“The housing market is hot. Very hot,” National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun told FOX Television Stations. But Yun predicts that things could soon cool down.

Housing market squeezing first-time home buyers

Housing stock is low. After the 2008 housing market crash, home building stalled. The build back is creeping along just as millennials, now the largest generation, are all looking for homes.

‘Historically’ high lumber prices adding more than $35K on average to new home price tag

While many businesses have slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the home-building industry has seen a boom — but it could be at risk due to a lumber shortage that has triggered skyrocketing prices for the material.

Housing trends from the COVID-19 pandemic that won’t go away

The COVID-19 pandemic will leave some lasting changes to our homes and how we live and work, FOX 5 real estate expert John Adams says.

New startup offers rent-to-own homebuying plan

A new platform is offering a way to make home-buying easier for the first-time buyer through a rent-to-own plan.

Video has changed everything in Georgia real estate

Real estate marketing hasn't changed much in the last hundred years, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the industry to make big changes in a short time. 

Group building 'safe haven' for Black families acquires more than 400 acres of land

The organization that purchased a plot of land near Toomsboro, Georgia to create a community in which African Americans prosper just acquired even more land.

San Francisco rent plunges 35% as tech giants flee area

Apartment rents continue to drop in San Francisco as the pandemic and remote work question the desire for high-priced living.

Overcoming down payment barriers

If you have been thinking abut jumping on the home buying bandwagon, it’s not too late. Interest rates are at record lows, and even though prices have been rising, the many benefits of owning a home remain compelling.

More metro Atlantans considering moving to the suburbs

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused profound changes in the way most Americans think, shop, work, and even where we prefer to live.

Atlanta real estate remains hot

The real estate market has been robust for years. But, today we have record unemployment, and a foreclosure moratorium expiring at the end of the year.

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Why the real estate market won't collapse when the foreclosure moratorium ends.

The impact of 'work from home' on Real Estate

Here to help us see future trends is our own FOX 5 real estate expert John Adams, who, in full disclosure, is himself a homeowner, and has not had COVID-19.

Title Lock Insurance is a waste of your money

Here to help us understand the threat to your home’s title is our own FOX 5 real estate expert John Adams.