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Roswell high on national real estate list

Shops and restaurants at Elizabeth Way and Canton Street in the Roswell Historic District.  AJC FILE.
Shops and restaurants at Elizabeth Way and Canton Street in the Roswell Historic District.  AJC FILE.
By Michael E. Kanell
Aug 28, 2017

You want a great housing market, try Seattle, suggests a national ranking released Monday.

And Nashville's pretty hot, too.

But among the nation’s large cities, Atlanta doesn’t do that badly – and Roswell scores even better, according to a calculation by WalletHub, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer credit and research company.

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