Big Builder: Atlanta will lead housing market recovery

The financial-services giant UBS released a report last month that says Atlanta is one of the five cities it expects to lead the national housing market's recovery.

From Big Builder magazine, a trade publication for home builders:

In a new Q-Series report released this morning, UBS analysts David Goldberg and Alexander Goldfarb selected Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Houston as their top picks for markets that will lead in a housing recovery.

The outlook for those five markets was optimistic because they exhibited stronger positive trends in demographics, economic growth, affordability, and inventory than the other eight markets examined.

Translation: People with jobs keep moving here and they need places to live.

Thanks for the good news, Big Builder. You have officially displaced Hay & Forage Grower as my favorite industry trade publication.