ECLECTIC ANSLEY

Home tour will showcase neighborhood jewels

e 2014 Ansley Park Tour of Homes will take place Oct. 18-19 featuring the theme “Eclectic Ansley.” e tour will feature eight homes that highlight the diversity of architecture and décor in Ansley Park. Homes include a lovingly restored Dutch Colonial, a completely rehabbed townhouse, an English Tudor built in 1928 and designed by Frances Palmer Smith, a Greek Revival home built in 1911, a 1911 Cape Cod-Cra sman style home, and a 1929 Mediterranean style home full of architectural and design surprises. e tour will also feature SCADpads, fully functional residences the size of a parking space designed and built by Savannah College of Art and Design students and alumni. e tour is open to the public on Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 on tour dates. Tickets are available on anselytouro omes.com. Along with the opportunity to explore the homes, there will be local food trucks in the neighborhood o ering up lunch options to visitors. ough Labor Day traditionally signals the end of summer, the Atlanta residential real estate market is showing no signs of hitting a typical fall decline. e August CalCulator, Atlanta’s residential real estate index, rose 0.1 from July to reach a 6.2, the record that was set by the June index. Large home price increases in Atlanta, falling foreclosure numbers and increased a ordability, partly due to increased inventory, led to the rise in the index. Despite the positive data, August did see disappointing news in terms of new-home sales, according to the latest data by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales of new single-family homes fell 2.4 percent in July. However, regionally, sales were up 8.1 percent in the South from the previous month and 33.2 percent from last year.

Jim Chapman, pictured, president of Jim Chapman Communities and Jim Chapman Fine Homes in Atlanta, was recently installed as Second Vice Chairman of the 50+ Housing Council Board of Trustees of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). He will be the chairman in 2016.

Atlanta Habitat for Humanity will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 21 at 10 a.m. for its new headquarters at 824 Memorial Drive in Reynoldstown. e building is located on 5.3 acres near the Atlanta BeltLine.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Allen Snow, who is a liated the brokerage’s Midtown o ce, was selected by Atlanta-based Minerva Homes as the listing agent for ve of their communities: Axis Condos and Townhomes, Berkeley Village, East Avenue Cottages, Linden Place and Oakview Townhomes. Snow’s partnership with Minerva began in 2012 with East Avenue Cottages. He has closed more than $3.5 million in Minerva properties in the rst half of the year, and has approximately $7.3 million in closed sales of their properties since 2012.

John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods has announced a new neighborhood coming soon just a short walk from vibrant Decatur Square. Decatur Walk will feature 11 luxury townhomes at the corner of East Howard Avenue and Hillyer Place in Downtown Decatur. Prices are expected to begin in the $500s with sales set to open later this fall. For more information, visit jwhomes.com or call (770) 996-6065.

High-end residential housing could be part of the transformation of Underground Atlanta, according to a report from 11 Alive News. e beleaguered Downtown attraction would become a mixed-use project with the empty storefronts on Upper Alabama Avenue becoming homes, according to Mayor Kasim Reed. “You’re going have to go vertical and really turn Underground into some people’s living room, so what I think you going to see with the new development is to have some vertical construction more residential,” Reed said. Reed says some of the retail space in the subterranean part of the project will stay retail. But with people living upstairs, the struggling shops in Underground would no longer depend on tourists for tra c. In May, the city bought out the remainder of an 88-year lease with the project’s operating partner Dan O’Leary for $8.8 million. e city’s economic development arm, Invest Atlanta, is currently seeking a buyer for Underground.

Curbed Atlanta has reported on an interesting project brewing at Piedmont and 5th Street in Midtown. Prime Construction plans to build a row of three-story, contemporary townhomes connected to a historic home from the 1890s that sits prominently at the corner. e website speci es that the project will consist of six townhomes; renderings clearly show four contemporary units, so the other two are presumably inside the existing home.

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