New Yorkers will be the top migrants to metro Atlanta, and Gainesville stands to gain the most metro Atlantans looking to head elsewhere, says a report released Wednesday by Trulia.
The online real estate search site has been tracking where its users are looking for houses and compiled the most popular searches between July and September. People in some of the nation's largest cities are looking at houses in Atlanta, the results say.
Meanwhile, "a lot of the search behavior we see is from the central [Atlanta] metro area to some of the smaller lower-density nearby areas," said Jed Kolko, Trulia's chief economist.
If there is any good news in falling housing prices in the metro suburbs, it is this: Those houses are now more affordable and are attracting attention.
"Realizing that by moving to the suburbs they can buy a home, many urban dwellers will also add to this future demand as they gravitate away from big cities toward suburban and smaller metros," Kolko predicted.
Searches between Atlanta and some areas, such as Tampa, are going both ways, Trulia's information says.
The bad news for the Peach State's capital region? There are about 1 1/2 times more searches going out than there are searching looking in the metro area.
Top looks in Atlanta come from:
1. New York
2. Washington
3. Chicago
4. Philadelphia
5. Tampa
6. Seattle
7. Athens
8. Los Angeles
9. Newark, N.J.
10. Nashville
Top looks for Atlantans go to:
1. Gainesville
2. Jacksonville
3. Athens
4. Birmingham
5. New York
6. Tampa
7. Columbus
8. Orlando
9. Los Angeles
10. Charlotte
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