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194 FACTBOOK 2021
By Aleks Gilbert
agilbert@mdjonline.com
If there’s something the pandemic
hasn’t hurt, it’s Cobb’s
real estate market.
“Prices have not dropped at
all. At all,” said Johnny Sinclair,
a real estate agent whose
specialty is properties within
Marietta city limits.
Inventory and interest rates
were already low at the beginning
of the year, Sinclair said.
“Since the coronavirus, I
think a lot of people have
taken their houses off the market,
and interest rates, which
were already historically low,
have dropped again, so (now)
they’re insanely low.”
Data from RE/MAX backs
this up. According to its July
National Housing Report,
the price of homes sold in
the county this July are up
7% compared to July 2019;
home sales are up 4%; and the
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Real estate agent and Marietta
City Council member Johnny Walker
said county hot spots include
Smyrna and the Cumberland area.
But the solid housing market
doesn’t appear isolated to just
those areas, he added. He said
the Cobb County School District
attracts families who simply want
to live somewhere in the county.
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