Real Estate

Rising interest rates and the skyrocketing cost of insurance are the main factors slowing the market for apartment buildings, local professionals say. 

Sales in the industrial real estate sector for Baton Rouge dipped last month as the market remains underbuilt and undersupplied. 

While seven Louisiana’s metro markets made The Wall Street Journal’s summer emerging housing market index released this morning, they all ranked near the bottom of the list. 

The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by one-quarter of a percentage point today, which would be the 11th hike in the past 12 policy meetings but might also be the last in the Fed’s current effort to tame inflation. 

A Baton Rouge-based self-storage company plans to build a storage facility on the 2-acre lot in front of the Tin Roof brewery on Nicholson Drive. 

Hammond-based Stoa Group closed on more than six acres on Picardy Avenue last week for its planned Heights at Picardy apartment community. 

Cajun Electric is planning an early fall grand opening for the company’s new showroom in Mid City. 

Baton Rouge may be an outlier in the latest housing trend as the national median price for an existing single-family home converges with the price of a newly built home.

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The organization that owns the Lincoln Theater will ask the Planning Commission at its meeting next month to rezone the property from light industrial to light commercial use.