Call It ‘Tech-lanta.’ The City’s Thriving Industry Is Boosting Real Estate, Too.Atlanta is winning investment from top tech companies because it’s where the talent is and wants to stay, wooed by the top-notch universities, low cost of living and quality of life. Atlanta has long been a finance capital of the world, with some 70% of all global financial transactions passing through companies headquartered in Atlanta…Read More
Move Over Denver. Salt Lake City Is America’s Mountain-West Darling, Now.Utah’s ascent as a tech hub may have been ignited in 1976, when a Brigham Young University student and professor partnered on software that became a global phenomenon: WordPerfect. But few predicted that the state’s capital, Salt Lake City, would emerge as an innovation powerhouse nearly a half-century later…Read More
Las Vegas’s Bet on Tech Has Been a Winner for Home BuyersLas Vegas has a lot more going for it than just The Strip. Sin City’s economy is quickly diversifying beyond casinos and events into the tech industry, particularly in sports tech, with companies like DraftKings and Sleeper, and fintech, with SightLine Payments and Shift4…Read More
The Tech Hub Growing in Northern Virginia Is Making an Expensive Housing Market Even WorseNational attention focused on Northern Virginia in 2018 when Amazon announced that its second headquarters would be built in “National Landing,” a new designation for a neighborhood that straddles Arlington and Alexandria. It wasn’t the region’s first brush with big tech, however…Read More
A Population Boom, a Tech Boom—Raleigh, North Carolina, Shows No Signs of Slowing DownAfter a decades-long slow burn, Raleigh’s local tech industry is roaring, stoked by homegrown startups and an influx of satellite offices—which, combined with quality-of-life factors, has fueled the city’s appeal. The presence of tech companies has helped spark a downtown real estate boom…Read More
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