RentCafe | Urbanize Atlanta

Analysis: Atlanta is top 3 best city in U.S. for renters right now

Status as “entrepreneurial haven,” income growth, apartment sizes, cost of living lend ATL top marks

July 1, 2025 by Josh Green

Report: 'Downtown' ATL among national leaders in post-pandemic apartment construction

More than 11,000 new rental units completed in city’s core over past five years, analysis finds

May 15, 2025 by Josh Green

Report: Atlanta emerging as leader in office-to-residential conversions

After slow start, 2,200 units in pipeline in one of South’s hottest conversion markets, analysts find

February 20, 2025 by Josh Green

Report: More than 90 percent of Atlanta apartments were rented in 2024

City’s stock of rentals grew by nearly 2 percent, though fewer renters vied for deals, analysis finds

January 2, 2025 by Josh Green

Study: Atlanta's livability ranks almost last among major cities. Really?

Housing crunch, socioeconomics, and access to healthcare among factors analyzed

December 12, 2024 by Josh Green

Atlanta declared (almost) best city in U.S. for renters right now

Analysis finds “Silicon Peach” counts favorable cost of living, robust economy, other plusses

July 9, 2024 by Josh Green

Atlanta ranks 3rd in nation for build-to-rent homes. Uh oh?

Analysis: Across metro, housing type that's drawn criticism hit 10-year high in 2023

April 18, 2024 by Josh Green

Report: Atlanta lags smaller cities in office-to-apartment conversions

Still, the metro has recently seen conversion projects increase by 40 percent, RentCafe finds

January 22, 2024 by Josh Green

Study: Atlanta anointed top U.S. city for renters to watch in 2024

City's "transformed Midtown and IT brainpower source Georgia Tech" cited as top draws

January 10, 2024 by Josh Green

Analysis: Atlanta ranked No. 2 hottest rental market in the country

Renters have been "intensely searching for apartments" in city throughout 2023

November 28, 2023 by Josh Green

Analysis: In Atlanta, millennial homeownership has exploded

Metro ATL is anomaly among major cities for spike in younger population homeownership, study finds

April 7, 2023 by Josh Green

Study: 'Shrinkflation' has afflicted Atlanta apartments (Decatur, too)

But analysis of nation’s 100 largest renter cities finds square footages growing in Marietta

March 6, 2023 by Josh Green

Report: Almost all new apartments in City of Atlanta are spoken for

But Georgia's top city for finding an upgraded rental is... Alpharetta?

January 17, 2023 by Josh Green

Report: Atlanta among national leaders in self-storage construction

There’s enough self-storage space in metro pipeline—1.4 million square feet—to make urbanism diehards cringe

December 12, 2022 by Josh Green

Report: Atlanta lags even small cities in converting buildings to apartments

Greenville and Richmond are eating ATL's lunch, new adaptive-reuse analysis finds

December 2, 2022 by Josh Green

Analysis: Metro Atlanta set to pack on another 13K apartments

That's good for eighth place among major U.S. cities, RentCafe study finds

August 29, 2022 by Josh Green

Study: Vast majority of metro ATL's new self-storage is urban. Doh!

Atlanta ranks in top 10 of self-storage development boom overall

May 18, 2022 by Josh Green

Where $1,500 rents still go (relatively) far around Atlanta

In the City of Atlanta, that gets a mere 821 square feet these days, study finds

March 30, 2022 by Josh Green