Privacy
Privacy law status in Georgia
Georgia has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. Privacy laws in other states, and federal rules, can still apply when a site collects data from their residents.
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ATLANTA web design.
Endcap Design is a web design agency that designs and builds websites for businesses, with the branding and marketing to match, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California. This guide collects the business numbers, building activity, and Georgia rules we would look at before designing a site for a business in Atlanta or elsewhere in the metro, including Sandy Springs, Roswell, Alpharetta, Marietta, and Dunwoody.
Updated October 2026 with building permits through August 2026, from U.S. Census Bureau data. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email.
The market
ATLANTA
in numbers.
The figures that shape who an Atlanta website is for and what it needs to do. Each figure is the most recent Census release in this guide’s data, with its year shown.
6,482,182
residents in the metro
Census population estimate, July 2025
+5.9%
population change since 2020
April 2020 to July 2025; the US grew 3.1%
163,103
business locations with employees
County Business Patterns 2023
9,401
real estate businesses
NAICS 531, 2023
1,548
property management companies
Residential and nonresidential, 2023
23,515
new housing units permitted
January through August 2026
$92,344
median household income
American Community Survey 2024
33%
of households rent their home
792,937 renter households
Business mix
WHO DOES BUSINESS
in Atlanta.
Real estate brokerages are the most concentrated of these businesses in the Atlanta metro: 69 for every 100,000 residents, and their share of local businesses is 1.40 times the national share. Self-storage operators follow at 1.34 times the national share. Specialty contractors are less common here than nationally, at 0.86 times the national share.
The chart compares each sector’s share of Atlanta-area business locations with its share nationally (a location quotient). 1.00× matches the US; higher means the sector is more concentrated here. County Business Patterns 2023.
Building activity
WHAT’S BEING
built.
New buildings mean new properties to lease and new businesses to open. Census Building Permits Survey, August 2026.
Builders in the Atlanta metro were authorized to build 23,515 new housing units from January through August 2026, 4% more than the 22,580 in the same months of 2025.
36% of those units are in buildings with five or more homes, against 32% nationally.
The pipeline mixes single-family subdivisions with apartment buildings, so builders, property managers, and the retail landlords who follow new rooftops all have something to launch.
- Single-family 14,820
- Two to four units 334
- Five or more 8,361
What this means for your site
BUILT FOR
Atlanta.
What we would plan into an Atlanta website, based on the numbers above.
Talk through your site- 01
A site for each property
Commercial building owners and lessors have 727 staffed offices in the metro, 1.08 times the national share of local businesses. A leasing website for each center or building, with a site plan and available suites, gives tenants and their brokers a direct path to the owner.
- 02
Show the deals
Brokerages are 1.40 times as concentrated here as nationally. A brokerage site stands out with closed deals, current listings that stay up to date, and a page for each broker.
- 03
Launch before the building opens
36% of new homes permitted this year are in buildings of five or more units. Pre-leasing websites need to be live months before the first move-in.
- 04
Georgia license details
Brokerage websites in Georgia carry specific disclosure requirements (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 520-1-.09 (Advertising), last amended effective May 1, 2014). We build them into the footer and listing templates, so every page that advertises a property has them.
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Accessible by default
Every site we build follows WCAG 2.2 AA practice: readable contrast, keyboard navigation, labeled forms, and text alternatives for images. Federal ADA website lawsuits run into the thousands each year, most of them filed in New York, Florida, and Illinois.
Georgia rules
WHAT THE LAW
asks of your site.
State rules that change what goes on a business or real estate website in Georgia, checked against official sources as of October 9, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice; your counsel owns the final wording.
Worth knowing Georgia Internet real estate advertising must show the firm's name and telephone number on every viewable web page under Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 520-1-.09.
Real estate advertising
What a Georgia brokerage site must show
Georgia requires all advertising by associate brokers, salespersons, and community association managers to be supervised by their broker and placed in the firm's name. Any Internet advertising of real estate must disclose the firm's name and telephone number on every viewable web page, and ads for specific property must show the firm's registered name and a firm telephone number at least as prominently as any affiliated licensee's or group's name and number.
What the website needs
- Internet advertising of real estate for sale, rent, lease, or exchange must disclose the name and telephone number of the licensee's firm on every viewable web page of a website (Rule 520-1-.09(5)).
- An electronic message with limited information or characters must provide a direct link to a display that complies with the rule (Rule 520-1-.09(5)(a)).
- When a website the licensee or firm does not own or control has terms of use that prevent compliance, the advertising must provide a direct link to a compliant display on every viewable web page (Rule 520-1-.09(5)(b)).
- Outdated information on a website maintained by a licensee must be updated or removed within thirty days of becoming outdated (Rule 520-1-.09(5)(c)).
- If an authorized third party other than the firm or its franchisor's webmaster maintains a licensee's website, the licensee must give that party timely written notice of updates or removals; the licensee is not in violation if the third party fails to act on that notice (Rule 520-1-.09(5)(d)).
Accessibility
The federal ADA
Title III of the ADA covers businesses open to the public, but the Department of Justice has no regulation that sets a technical standard for private business websites. DOJ's web guidance says businesses have flexibility in how they make their websites accessible and points to WCAG as a helpful existing technical standard. Federal appeals courts have not agreed on when a website is covered, so a website's legal status can depend on where a lawsuit is filed and whether the site is connected to a physical location. Georgia has no separate website accessibility statute for private businesses in our research, so WCAG 2.2 AA is the practical target.
What we design
FOR ATLANTA
businesses.
Ordered by how concentrated each kind of business is in the Atlanta metro. We design for every kind of business.
4,483real estate brokerages in the metro
Brokerage websites with listings, team pages, and closed deals
484self-storage operators in the metroFacility websites with unit sizes and rental links
4,397law offices in the metroClear, fast websites for professional firms
727commercial building owners in the metroWebsites for landlords and their centers, offices, and industrial buildings
2,416architecture and engineering firms in the metroPortfolio websites that present built work
1,548property management companies in the metroCompany websites that win owner clients and link residents to their portal
Portfolio
RECENT
work.
Websites and identities we have designed and built for our clients. See all of our work.
Client words
IN THEIR
words.
We own ten homes at Casa De Laguna and were still sending people to a site built in 2013. Noah pulled the photos and details out of the old site, designed a logo from the rooflines and the pond, and put the community, the homes and current availability in one place. It’s the first time the website has looked like the place we actually rent.
“Highly recommend. Great work.”
How many real estate businesses are in the Atlanta area?
The Census Bureau counted 9,401 real estate business locations with employees in the Atlanta metro in 2023, including 4,483 offices of agents and brokers and 1,548 property management companies.
How much new construction is happening in Atlanta?
From January through August 2026, the Atlanta metro permitted 23,515 new housing units, 4% more than a year earlier, according to the Census Building Permits Survey.
Does Georgia have a privacy law that affects business websites?
Georgia has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law as of October 9, 2026. Privacy laws in other states can still apply when a website collects data from their residents.
What does Georgia require on a real estate website?
Georgia requires all advertising by associate brokers, salespersons, and community association managers to be supervised by their broker and placed in the firm's name. Any Internet advertising of real estate must disclose the firm's name and telephone number on every viewable web page, and ads for specific property must show the firm's registered name and a firm telephone number at least as prominently as any affiliated licensee's or group's name and number. (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 520-1-.09 (Advertising), last amended effective May 1, 2014)
Do you work with Atlanta businesses remotely?
Yes. Endcap is based in Orange County, California, and works remotely with clients outside Southern California by video call, phone, and email. You review the design and the working site online before launch.
How much does a website cost?
We quote each project after a short conversation, once we know the pages, content, and features it needs. The proposal lists the deliverables, schedule, and price, and we agree on it before work begins.
How long does a website take?
Most websites take two to four weeks once the content is ready. The proposal confirms the schedule.
Nearby city guides
Other markets near Atlanta
Columbus, GA324,830 residentsChattanooga, TN594,530 residentsGreenville, SC1,014,101 residentsBirmingham, AL1,197,766 residentsAugusta, GA641,231 residentsMontgomery, AL388,747 residentsAll city guides 200 metros
National rankings: where the US is building, property managers by metro, brokerages by metro, and commercial landlords by metro.
Sources
- Business counts U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (NAICS 2017) Data
- Population U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Data
- Income and housing U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year 2024 Data
- Building permits U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, January-August 2026 year-to-date vs. same months of 2025 Data
- Metro definitions OMB metropolitan statistical areas, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01) Data
Figures are for the metropolitan statistical area unless noted. Business counts cover locations with paid employees. Data refreshed 2026-10-10.
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