Real Estate

Scenic Land Company purchased Northwest Georgia’s former Canyon Ridge Golf Club in 2018 and rechristened it McLemore. Now, its master plan calls for several hundred homes to be built in some half dozen neighborhoods, with settings ranging from forests and canyons to golf course views.

Atlanta has often been dubbed a car-dependent city. However, our region ranks high for future walkability, indicating a demand for greater density both intown and in the suburbs.

Over more than four decades, John Wieland built an empire of 30,000 homes, but his subdivisions proffered more suburban security than urban panache. That’s all changed since the septuagenarian sold his Smyrna-based company in 2012 and turned his focus to boutique developments.

Real estate agent Molly McGrory ventured a couple of miles inland to Watersound Origins, a brand-new neighborhood on Lake Powell that is being developed by the St. Joe Company. For McGrory, the number one attraction was its ban on short-term rentals.

The next hot Atlanta neighborhoods. Eight friendly, walkable places where you can still afford to live.

Every day feels like a vacation in this secluded $1.5-million home on the Chattahoochee, though the home is just 20 minutes from Downtown.

The development will have two residential phases connected by a future mixed-use section next door to the new Mercedes-Benz headquarters.

A historic log cabin, a 1960s ranch home, and a South Carolina hunting lodge merged to form this unique abode near the Chattahoochee River.