In 2013, Coweta County issued 285 building permits for new houses – the most since 2007. The city of Newnan issued 263 permits. There is definitely a need for more houses in Coweta. “We have been a little low on inventory for two, three, four years now,” Barron said. The county continues to grow, albeit much more slowly than in the early 2000s. In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the county’s population at 133,180. That number is up from 127,317 in the 2010 Census. Prices have risen, and between April 2013 and April 2014, they were up 10 percent in Coweta. “That is a pretty big increase,” Barron said. Homes on acreage have appeared to lag behind when it comes to the housing rebound, according to Barron, but things have picked up. Coweta has a “good many” homes on larger tracts of land. Historic homes in Newnan had also been slow to move for a while, but “they are starting to sell,” Barron said. In Senoia, there are luxury, multi-story “brownstones” right in downtown, built with the idea of serving as movie backdrops for the
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