The Atlanta housing market is already painting a vivid picture just halfway through 2025, and the story emerging from ATTOM Data Solutions (and Parcl Labs in our next post) reveals both familiar patterns and fresh insights across our 11-county metro region.
Dive into the interactive visualization below to explore how total sales volume, median price per square foot, median home size, and median year built are shaping up across metro Atlanta at a county level. Toggle between these metrics and see the story morph before your very eyes!
The numbers tell a tale that anyone navigating Atlanta’s metro will recognize: some counties are simply busier than others. Fulton and Cobb counties are flexing their market muscles with over 7,500 sales each (and counting) in 2025. DeKalb and Gwinnett counties account for roughly 6,000 sales apiece. Meanwhile, Douglas, Fayette, and Rockdale counties aren’t seeing that level of activity, with each recording 1,000 sales or fewer so far this year.
When we shift from raw sales volume to median price per square foot, the landscape shifts a bit. Fulton maintains its pole position at the top, along with Forsyth County, at around $270 per square foot each. Cobb, Cherokee, and Fayette counties trail behind in the next tier of home pricing, ranging from around $220 to $230 per square foot. Clayton County, on the other hand, has seen dramatically lower housing prices in the early going of 2025, with a median sale price of around $142 per square foot.
What can the other metrics tell us? The largest homes thus far in 2025 are being bought and sold in Forsyth, Gwinnett, and Fayette counties, with median home sizes of 2,222, 2,134, and 2,100 square feet, respectively. Forsyth County also tops the list of median year sold, indicating a newer vintage of housing stock being bought and sold in this northern county. DeKalb County, meanwhile, stands alone on the other end of the spectrum, with a median construction vintage of 1975 for homes sold.
When we look at sales volume at a lower geographic level, such as the H3 hexagon below, we see that the vast majority of sales in the metro have occurred in southeast Cobb, central Fulton, and central DeKalb counties:
This choropleth map above reveals the pockets of activity occurring unevenly across the region. While the county-level trends provide the broad outlines of metro Atlanta’s early 2025 housing narrative, this more granular view shows us exactly where the activity is happening, one neighborhood at a time. In a diverse housing market like metro Atlanta, location is truly everything.
A note on the data: These figures represent ATTOM‘s collections through early August 2025, but the story is still being written. As county clerk offices continue processing and recording transactions, sales from earlier in the year are constantly being added to the database. Thus means our August snapshot of “2025 sales so far” will expand (and perhaps show slightly different patterns) as the year progresses. For instance, September’s data pull may reveal additional January sales that weren’t recorded in our current dataset. Think of these total sales figures as a growing tally rather than a closed book, with the complete 2025 picture become clearer as move toward year-end (and into early 2026).