As 2025’s real estate market heads into its spring season, encouraging signs point to a more balanced real estate market emerging in metro Atlanta and Paulding County, which is welcome news for home buyers. “Although home sales in Paulding County have moderated compared to March 2024, with fewer units sold and lower overall transaction volume, the market's performance mirrors broader trends seen across the Atlanta 12-county core,” according to John Ryan, chief marketing officer for Georgia MLS, who responded by email to a request for comment.“Year-over-year, Paulding County saw a 5.2% decline in units sold, closely aligned with the 5.1% decrease in the Atlanta core. Sales volume in Paulding fell by 6.9%, or $6.4 million,” Ryan said. “On a more positive note for buyers, the median sales price in Paulding dipped by 1.2%, or $4,300, dropping from $352,000 to $347,700. In contrast, the 12-county region experienced only a slight median price increase—from $403,300 to $404,900.”
Two Paulding realtors offered their perspectives on the local market. “The real estate market in Paulding County is warming up right along with the spring weather,” said Realtor Shawn Michael Delaney, with Maximum One Realty in Hiram. Delaney, reached by phone, is attuned to the Atlanta and Paulding markets and can be contacted at ThinkofShawn.com.
Delaney said over the past 90 days, data from our local MLS shows monthly averages for single-family homes is about 147 homes sold, around 187 homes went under contract and roughly 623 homes were actively listed.
Delaney says homes are spending an average of 60 days on the market and selling for about 96% of their asking price. “We’re sitting at about four months of inventory, which means the market is fairly balanced between buyers and sellers — not quite a buyer’s market, not quite a seller’s market,” he said. Delaney says that of all the listings in the MLS, around 20% are new construction and 80% are resales.
“But here’s an interesting fact: most new construction sales aren’t even listed in the MLS! When you factor those in, new homes actually make up about 65% of what’s selling, compared to 35% resale homes,” he said.
Another local realtor who divides her time between Cobb and Paulding, Jaydee Austin Smith with Ansley Real Estate/Christie’s International Real Estate, Smith is managing broker of the Marietta office, also contacted by phone.
“We’ve seen strong sales in Metro and that north Paulding, east Paulding corridor is always super-strong with the schools. Under contract homes were down in 1st quarter, but not significantly, Smith said.
The 55-and-up market is still strong in Paulding. Some of that moving over from Cobb, she said. Smith noted that high-performance schools tend to draw the demand for home buyers, also in downtown Dallas; I had multiple offers over the list price, and it’s very competitive.” “After Easter I think you’re gonna see more homes come on the market, that’s just traditional for Atlanta, we’re very seasonal, but even with the rates being higher it hasn’t affected sales, the way people might think they would, there’s still huge demand, people are moving to Atlanta,” Smith said. “In our office we see so many relocation customers coming in.”
With mortgage rates stabilizing and the frenzy of past years settling, this is shaping up to be a year of opportunity for those looking to enter the Atlanta housing market.
The months of inventory supply has risen to 4.3 months—indicating a shift away from the tight seller’s market seen in recent years, Overall housing inventory has grown by 22%, giving buyers a wider selection of homes and more negotiating power, noted Ryan.
“This increase in available listings not only provides greater choice, but it also helps ease upward pressure on home prices. Combined with longer average days on market and slightly softened pricing, buyers now have more time, flexibility, and leverage in the purchasing process compared to this time last year,” Ryan said.

Currently, a more balanced real estate market is emerging in Paulding County. Overall housing inventory has grown, giving buyers a wider selection of homes and more negotiating power. (Photo: R. Grant) By Richard Grant