Before the COVID-19 pandemic, rental rates and occupancy levels in the Capital Region were slipping, as the market slowly absorbed properties built since 2017. That changed in 2021 and 2022, as the Baton Rouge area joined the national trend of rising rents and falling vacancies. To be sure, local costs didn’t spike as much as

Multifamily: A quick pivot
Demand for apartments is suddenly surging, countering years of warnings about an overbuilt market, but will the boom last?



