(This content was created with the help of AI.) The longtime Atlanta housing hack—drive farther, pay less—may be about to disappear. New data show homes in the region’s far-flung exurbs are now selling for a median $380,962, just about $4,000 under prices in the city core and its suburbs.
That discount was roughly $51,000 in mid-2021, per a Wall Street Journal analysis of Redfin data. If the current trajectory holds, Atlanta will later this year become the only major US metro where fringe-area homes are pricier than those closer to the city, per the Journal.
This was formerly the case in Houston, though the trend has reversed in recent years…