Real Estate Update: Quarter 2 Report Shows High Demand, High Inflation. High Hopes as Well?

The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors has released its Q2 report for the year of 2022. This report illustrates continuing trends in the price, inventory, and average sale time of residential real estate properties in Madison County. The overall inventory of homes for sale rose 125% in Q2 2022, with the lion’s share of those […]

Imagining Huntsville’s Future: The City of the Stars

A claim, put forward by Yahoo Finance in April and further analyzed on AL.com last month, suggested that the average price of a home in Huntsville could reach a million dollars by 2030.  Seems a bit steep, doesn’t it?  And yet, this future may not be as outlandish as it appears at first glance. Gabrielle […]

Real Estate Update: High Inflation Hits Market

The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors’ (HAAR) Economic Report for Q1 2022 illustrates the rapid inflation that has hit all aspects of American economic life. The rate of inflation hit 8% in March, a four-fold increase since that month the previous year.  With the 8% inflation rate far outstripping the approximately 2% increase in median […]

Madison senior living development reaches second phase

MADISON, AL – Capstone Building Corp., a premier general contractor based in Birmingham, Alabama, along with Pennrose-BLOC, LLC, a collaboration of Pennrose, LLC and BLOC Global Development Group, LLC, has recently announced the completion of Stoneridge Villas Phase II. This $10.5 million phase is an affordable apartment community for adults 55 and over, conveniently located […]

Real Estate Update: Housing Inventory Doubles for Madison County

The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors has released real estate statistics for the month of June. In tandem with Realtor.com’s recent survey of the national market, these latest reports confirm that, with the pandemic conditions mitigated and new sellers entering the market, the inventory of single-family homes listed for sale in Madison County has more […]

The Beach Company hosts grand opening, ribbon cutting at The Range

Huntsville, AL – Yesterday, The Beach Company hosted a ribbon-cutting celebrating the grand opening of The Range, a new commercial office building at the western gateway into Huntsville on Governors Drive, and announced its first tenant, Bridgeworth Wealth Management. “The Bridgeworth team is thrilled to be the Range’s first tenant and is very pleased with […]

Property Taxes Are 6.9% Of Alabama’s Tax Revenue, Lowest in U.S.

Despite many economic experts’ worst fears early in the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local government budgets have proven resilient over the last two years. With much of the economy shut down or hobbled as a result of the pandemic, forecasters initially worried that states and localities would collect substantially lower amounts of sales and income […]

13.5% of Huntsville Purchase Loans are for investment properties, 11th most in U.S.

In the heated residential real estate market of the last two years, one factor contributing to fierce competition and rising prices has been real estate investors. While many prospective homebuyers were drawn into the market with historically low interest rates and strong savings and investment returns, they have frequently found themselves outbid by corporate landlords […]

Rent or Buy? A look into Huntsville’s housing market

Is it still cheaper to buy a house than it is to rent in Huntsville? A recent study from California based ATTOM Data Solutions found that while Madison County is included in the 58% of counties where it’s more affordable to buy a home, the gap between owning and renting is smaller than ever and […]

Dip in housing sales suggest relief for buyers, renters

Back in May, for the first time in five years, residential sales in Huntsville dipped. According to the University of Alabama’s Culver College of Business, sales of residential units slowed by 4.4% compared to the first quarter of 2021.  While housing sales – and prices – have been soaring nationwide, Huntsville has been in a […]