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About Clearly Georgia

Inside Georgia Real Estate Saturdays · 1 pm to 2 pm · WSB Radio Inside Georgia Real Estate is your weekly guide to what is really happening in Georgia’s housing market. Host Deborah Morton from The Agency has managed hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate transactions and brings that real-world experience straight to you on air. This show is for you if you are: · Owning a home and trying to make smart equity decisions · Thinking about buying your first or next home · Planning to sell and want to time and price it right · Considering refinancing or leveraging your current property · Curious about where the Georgia market is heading next Each week, Deborah breaks down: · Interest rates and what they mean for your monthly payment · Market shifts in Atlanta and across Georgia · New laws, contracts, and lending updates that impact your bottom line · Strategies to win in a competitive market · Real stories and lessons from recent deals No hype. No guesswork. Just clear, practical insight so you can move with confidence in Georgia real estate.

Publisher

Inside Georgia Real Estate | Clearly Georgia

Category

business · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Oct 2023

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Spooky Real Estate Stories, Round Two

   Episode Summary Halloween is almost here, so Inside Georgia Real Estate is bringing back haunted house stories for a second year. Host Deborah Morton, Managing Partner of The Agency Atlanta, welcomes back Rich Zeglovitch, Partner at The Agency Atlanta and head of its Midtown office. Rich tells a two-part story from his hometown near Niagara Falls, and Deborah closes with a family memory of a historic New Jersey home that came with its own resident ghost. In This Episode A Quaint Town With a Haunted Past Rich’s best friend since second grade bought a 1940s home just off the main street of their hometown near Niagara Falls, a village full of 1800s houses, pubs, bakeries and small-town charm. On a visit home, an old classmate at the local pub told Rich she had rented that house before his friend bought it, and that it was haunted. His friend confirmed it: just a little bit, at the top of the stairs. The Dream That Wasn’t a Dream Some signs were easy to explain away, like the sound of the dog’s ball bouncing down the stairs in the middle of the night. Then, soon after moving in, his friend dreamt something was pulling her out of bed while she held onto the sheets. She woke standing at the foot of the bed, gripping the bedding, with two fingernails pulled back. For years afterward she kept the TV running in that room. Part Two: The Orb on Camera Rich’s friend fosters pets and keeps a camera on a downstairs room. One night she spotted a light orb moving around the room with no light source to explain it, and watched it for about 45 minutes. When she went down and sat in a chair, the orb came over and moved deliberately around her body, all captured on video. She still lives in the house today. Deborah’s Story: Uncle Harry’s Historic Home Deborah grew up in northern New Jersey, where her Uncle Harry served as city manager. Part of his compensation was an apartment above a township-owned historic home built in the mid-1700s, while the ground floor operated as a museum with a self-guided tour. Framed on the walls were photos taken by different photographers over the years, each showing the same white, female apparition in a nightgown near the home’s massive cooking hearth. Uncle Harry had his own stories too, like a cold sensation passing by him on the stairs. Notable Quotes “That doesn’t sound like a dream.” Rich Zeglovitch “I would have burned the house down and ran away.” Rich Zeglovitch “As a kid I was always hoping, but never got to bump into the ghost myself.” Deborah Morton People and Places Mentioned Deborah Morton, Managing Partner, The Agency Atlanta Rich Zeglovitch, Partner, The Agency Atlanta (Midtown office) A small village near Niagara Falls Northern New Jersey Uncle Harry’s township-owned historic home, built in the mid-1700s Got a Haunted House Story? We want to hear it. Like, follow, subscribe and share this episode with your friends. Happy Halloween!

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   26 Sept 2026

   Cash Offers vs. Selling With an Agent: What Sellers Leave on the Table

   Cash Offers vs. Selling With an Agent: What Sellers Leave on the Table Host Deborah Morton sits down with Renee Stutz of The Agency Atlanta to break down the real difference between an investor cash offer and a traditional sale. They cover where cash offers actually land today, who they genuinely serve, and what sellers should weigh before choosing one. Chapters 00:00 Cash offer or traditional sale 00:24 The mindset that no longer matches the market 02:02 When a cash offer is the right move 02:56 What investor offers are paying today 04:21 What you're hiring an agent for 05:51 A slower selling pace 09:05 Deferred maintenance and what buyers notice 11:52 New construction and builder incentives 13:44 Buyer's remorse from the bidding war years 15:35 Short sales and sellers locked in by low rates 17:24 Renee's path from accounting to real estate 19:42 Under contract in a week What We Covered Where cash offers land: Renee is seeing investor offers come in between 68% and 78% of market value. Deborah's longtime rule of thumb was 75%. That gap is the price of convenience, and it only works if the seller has the equity to absorb it. When it makes sense: Homes needing significant work, estate situations, and sellers who need a fast exit and are not focused on capturing equity. Cutting out the middleman: A cash buyer is purchasing to flip or to rent. Renee asks why not take the home to the market directly, handle the smaller repairs, and keep that margin. What an agent brings: Renee compares it to seeing a physician instead of searching symptoms online. A homeowner who sells once a decade doesn't know what to ask. A skilled agent assesses the situation, lays out the options, and builds the strategy with the seller. A slower pace: Deborah cites Zillow data showing roughly 145 days from first online look to closing, still climbing, against the 30-day turns of 2020. Deferred maintenance: Renee's fastest answer for the most damaging issue is stains on the ceiling. Even with the leak repaired, the evidence tells a buyer the problem is still there. On flooring, a carpet allowance no longer works. Buyers want the work done. New construction: Builders are buying rates down and packaging that into the offer, which lets buyers stretch into a higher price than a comparable resale. Many traditional sellers can't match that. Thin equity: Buyers who competed from 2020 to 2022 often skipped due diligence to win. Some now want to sell and find they bought at inflated values. Renee is seeing more short sales and an uptick in foreclosures. Locked in by a low rate: Renee's argument is to look at the entire financial picture, including higher-interest debt, rather than fixating on a single asset. Renee's background: A biology degree, one week of physical therapy school, a master's in accounting, and a career in public and private accounting before moving to Georgia and finding real estate. She describes the work as an opportunity to serve. The story: A seller whose home had sat for months with another brokerage. Renee rebuilt the marketing strategy, repositioned how the home presented, and revisited pricing. Under contract within a week. Notable Quotes "That's a lot of equity you're leaving on the table in exchange for convenience." "You don't know what you don't know." "Buyers today don't want to do the work." "You allow me to do my job, and for that I'm grateful." Renee Stutz Guest: Renee Stutz, The Agency Atlanta Follow, like and subscribe to Inside Georgia Real Estate. Hosted by Deborah Morton.

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   19 Sept 2026

   Inside Georgia Real Estate: Woodstock Mayor Michael Caldwell, Part 2

   Host Deborah Morton continues her conversation with Woodstock Mayor Michael Caldwell, who calls himself the city's "chief storyteller." They talk about how Woodstock approaches placemaking, how the city is managing growth, and what's coming next. The episode was recorded at The Nest, a downtown community creating a new path to homeownership. Chapters 00:00 Welcome back: beer, art, dogs and golf carts 00:34 Placemaking and the Woodstock brand 03:15 Growth after 2020 04:30 The free parking program 07:13 Golf carts in Woodstock 08:07 City Center 08:51 The Nest: rental to homeownership 12:45 Parks, trails and Little River Park 15:20 What the future holds 18:34 Canton, Ball Ground, Holly Springs and a rising tide What We Covered Building a city, not a highway: Woodstock has made the largest infrastructure investment in its history over the past five years. A comprehensive transportation plan guides the work so traffic flow improves without harming downtown. Parking with a purpose: A 633-space downtown deck is free to use. Street parking in front of shops is free for the first hour, and the most anyone pays is $4. A free space is never more than 350 steps away. Visitation is up by double digits since the program began. Golf carts: Woodstock has the second most registered golf carts in Georgia, behind Peachtree City. Every street at 25 mph and under is golf cart accessible. City Center: The project includes the parking deck, a multi-story office building with restaurant and retail on the ground level, and a 120-room boutique hotel. The Nest: This former 40-unit apartment community has been converted to fee simple homeownership. Residents had the first opportunity to buy, and homes are now open to the public. A three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home is priced at $335,000, a three-minute walk from downtown. Little River Park: This 110-acre park will double Woodstock's parks and green space. It will also connect the east side of the city to downtown by trail. A voter-approved parks bond allowed a decade-long plan to be delivered in 18 months, and a ribbon cutting is expected around January or February. Woodstock is also home to the Rope Mill and Blankets Creek mountain bike trails. A balanced county: Woodstock is about 4% of Cherokee County's land and 16% of its population, but it produces roughly 40% of the county's GDP. That helps keep taxes among the lowest in the state while preserving the county's rural character. Notable Quotes "We are not building a highway, we're building a city." "I would rather have problems that come with being a place people want to be than being a place people are trying to get out." "It's a great place to live, work and play. Just pick two." "If you're going to live in Metro Atlanta, it does not get better than Woodstock." Mayor Michael Caldwell Mentioned: Reformation Brewery, Canyons Burger Company, The Nest, City Center, Little River Park, Rope Mill, Blankets Creek, Arnold Mill, Canton, Ball Ground, Holly Springs Like, follow and subscribe to Inside Georgia Real Estate, and follow the City of Woodstock on social media.

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