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Atlanta’s highest-priced ‘hoods: Average more than a million bucks a home?

It's a seller's market -- especially in the popular parts of Atlanta. Take Buckhead -- if you can.
It's a seller's market -- especially in the popular parts of Atlanta. Take Buckhead -- if you can.
By Michael E. Kanell
June 27, 2017

If you are the kind of buyer who thinks about what they can afford, then maybe you can’t afford Buckhead.

Or Ansley. Or...

Well, check the list. With job growth strong and the number of corporate executives growing like kudzu, the prices of the popular in-town Atlanta neighborhoods are rising, including those aforementioned two that have climbed into six digits.

And that is before the decimal point.

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Michael E. Kanell, the AJC's economics writer, has been reporting on jobs, housing and the economy at the AJC for nearly two decades. He has appeared on television and radio to analyze and report on business and economic developments.

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