Sell Your Commercial Property In Roswell, GA

Who rents in Roswell

The 2020–2024 ACS counts 92,621 residents in Roswell and 35,540 occupied homes. Owners hold 25,550 of them; renters hold 9,990, or 28.1%. The median household income is $128,654, above even Sandy Springs' $104,340, and it reflects a city where nearly three in four households own their homes.

Renters are a different group from the citywide median. Of all renter households, 5,096, or 51.0%, spend 30% or more of income on rent and utilities, and 2,602, or 26.0%, spend half or more. At the other end, 2,582 renter households, or 25.8%, spend under 20% of income on housing. That is a wide spread for a city this affluent, and the 51.0% burden rate is higher than in Sandy Springs (43.4%), so the city's high median income says little about what its renters earn. Roswell's hospital, Wellstar North Fulton Medical Center, is a Level II Trauma Center, Level II Emergency Cardiac Care Center and Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Rents and affordability

Median gross rent is $1,810 a month, or $21,720 a year. HUD's FY2026 Fair Market Rents for the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell area put the two-bedroom figure just above that median:

The two-bedroom FMR is only $10 above the city median, so voucher-assisted two-bedrooms in Roswell can reach roughly market rent but not much more. Three-bedroom units, at $2,182, leave more room. FY2027 FMRs take effect October 1, 2026.

The apartment stock

Of 37,439 housing units in the ACS, 22,275, or 59.5%, are detached houses and 4,498, or 12.0%, are attached homes such as townhouses. Buildings with five or more units hold 9,227 units, or 24.6%: 2,080 in 5 to 9 unit buildings, 3,014 in 10 to 19, 1,664 in 20 to 49 and 2,469 in 50 or more. Buildings of 5 to 19 units make up about 55% of that apartment stock. Because there are 9,990 renter households and 9,227 units in 5+ unit buildings, apartments supply a large share of all rental housing here, even with some houses and townhomes also rented. The median unit was built in 1989.

The ACS counts only 1,899 more housing units than occupied homes, about 5.1% of the stock, which includes for-sale and seasonal homes as well as vacant rentals. That is a tight margin.

New supply and zoning

Roswell has made new apartments harder to build. On July 13, 2020, the council adopted nearly a dozen amendments to its Unified Development Code, Appen Media reported. They removed stacked-flat and walk-up-flat building types from the commercial districts in the Holcomb Bridge Road/GA-400 area, except a northwest quadrant between Warsaw Road and GA-400, on a 3-3 council vote broken by the mayor. Other changes allow multifamily applications only as a conditional use where apartments already exist or in select commercial corridors, require multi-use trails on multifamily properties, and require commercial mixed-use projects to devote more than 51% of floor area to commercial or retail space. For owners, those rules limit new competition for existing buildings.

Property taxes and local compliance

Georgia assesses property at 40% of fair market value as of January 1, with 45 days to appeal a notice, per the Department of Revenue. The 2025 millage report lists Fulton County at 8.870 mills plus 0.169 for bonds, Fulton County Schools at 17.080 and Roswell at 4.049 plus 0.900 for bonds, for 31.068 mills, about 1.24% of market value. A $2 million building would be assessed at $800,000 and owe about $24,900 a year. That is close to Sandy Springs' 30.850 mills and far below the 39.909 mills inside Atlanta's Fulton portion. Mountain Park levies 5.954 city mills instead of Roswell's. The HB 581 homestead cap does not cover rental property, so assessments can rise to full market value each year, though notices must now show an estimated roll-back rate.

Roswell's code enforcement division lists a multifamily inspection program. There is no rent control, since O.C.G.A. 44-7-19 preempts local rent rules, but the 2024 Safe at Home Act, summarized in the Georgia Landlord-Tenant Handbook, limits deposits to two months' rent and requires a three-business-day notice to pay before an eviction filing.

What this means if you own a building here

Limited new supply, a tight vacancy margin and rents near $1,810 support value, while taxes at about 31.1 mills on 40% of price and the state transfer tax of $1 per $1,000 are predictable. A financed buyer also pays Georgia's intangible recording tax of $1.50 per $500 of the loan, up to $25,000 per note. Skyline Capital Investments buys 5+ unit buildings in Roswell and north Fulton. Try our apartment building value calculator or read how we make offers on our sell your apartment building page.