Atlanta Housing Market Update: January 2021

The Atlanta Housing Market started 2021 the same way it ended 2020, with prices continuing to increase and supply continuing to decrease. Current supply levels dropped to 1.2 months (6 months is normal) and the median sales price was $309,000, up 17.9% from 2019. Below is the market update for January 2021 from the Atlanta REALTORS® Association.

Atlanta REALTORS® Market Brief

January 2021 Edition

The Atlanta REALTORS® (ARA), the largest association of its kind in Georgia, released its January 2021 Market Brief on residential housing statistics in metro-Atlanta. The Market Brief, compiled by First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS), provides the only regionally focused synopsis of monthly sales and home prices for single family residential properties. Covers 11 counties: Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Paulding and Rockdale.

January Highlights

Demand: January residential sales were at 4,421, an increase of 1.0% from the previous year.

Price: Average and median sales prices continue to outpace 2020’s figures, with positive gains. The median sales price in January was $309,000, an increase of 17.9% from last January. The average sales price was $379,000, up 17.9% from the previous year.

Supply: Atlanta area housing inventory totaled 8,133 units in January, a decrease of 48.5% from January 2020. New listings totaled 6,679, down 19.4% from January 2020 and up 27.1% from the previous month. The month’s supply over a 12-month period decreased to 1.2 months.

A Word from 2021 Atlanta REALTORS® President Cynthia Lippert: 

"The strong year over year gains in 2020 continued into the first month of 2021 as predicted, with sales up slightly from last January," stated Cynthia Lippert, 2021 President of the Atlanta REALTORS® Association. “Even with sales increasing, the market is constrained by the ongoing decrease in available inventory as it was further reduced in January to 1.2 months supply.”

“As the gap between supply and demand continues to widen, we should be mindful of the more pronounced effect of this trend on affordable housing and its impact on the local economy,” Lippert adds. “Average and Median prices are up almost 18% which means already low inventory levels in lower price points will continue to dwindle, putting further strain on entire segments of the market.”

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The data in this report was compiled by First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS). For more details of this month's report, please click here.