Atlanta's 'Second-Ring' Markets Getting Attention

ATLANTA—There’s plenty of discussion about the concept of multifamily communities in mixed-use, walkable environments and Transit-Oriented Development in Atlanta and beyond. With the movement toward these concepts, are some developers too quick to dismiss theviability of traditional garden-style multifamily communities in suburban environments?

“There is absolutely the space for both kinds of apartment communities in today’s environment,” Josh Goldfarb, co-founder and co-managing partner of Multi Housing Advisors, an Atlanta-based brokerage firm that focuses exclusively on apartment investment sales, tells GlobeSt.com. In part one of this series, he answered this key question: Should developers be worried about multifamily overbuilding?