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Residential real estate market slows in Baton Rouge
While springtime is normally busy for the residential real estate market, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has caused the Baton Rouge market to slow down.
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Economic slowdown, advances in telecommuting likely to reduce local office space demand
While real estate’s commercial and multifamily sectors have initially been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, the office market has been relatively insulated so...
Short-term, LSU student rentals ‘obliterated,’ say property owners
With the Legislature on indefinite hiatus, LSU classes being taught online through the summer, travel restricted throughout the country, and spring festivals canceled, local...
Real estate finds itself playing the COVID-19 waiting game
The immediate COVID-19 impact varies by real estate sector, but the challenges will be universal if the effective shutdown lasts for an extended period.
Home mortgage industry worried by forbearance relief promised in CARES Act
While the $2.2 trillion CARES Act relief package passed by Congress late last month to help soften the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis...
New coworking space planned for Mid City
While most of the local workforce has transitioned to working remotely because of COVID-19, a new coworking space is in the works for Mid...
Baton Rouge residential market shifts in February amid growing coronavirus fears
After the Baton Rouge area saw a nearly 20% spike in closed sales during January, that momentum seemingly disappeared as the impacts and fears...
Baton Rouge homebuilders are still building
While several industries were turned on their heads this week in response to the spreading COVID-19, homebuilders are still working on future residences in...
Residential real estate transactions slow as social distancing becomes the norm
Like every other sector of the economy, residential real estate transactions slowed to a trickle this week, as businesses were forced to close, employees...
Baton Rouge tenants telling landlords they won’t be able to pay rent during outbreak
The realities of the coronavirus crisis are beginning to hit the commercial real estate sector hard, particularly retail centers, which have seen their restaurant...
Coronavirus could spell project delays for Baton Rouge construction firms
Baton Rouge area construction firms should begin preparing for project delays and potential contractual issues that may arise as COVID-19 continues to disrupt supply...
Home sellers halt open houses over coronavirus fears
The National Association of Realtors is reporting that nearly one in four home sellers have changed how their home is viewed during the novel...
Strip retail centers are booming in Baton Rouge
Don’t tell these strip center owners—with properties filled with restaurants, grocery stores, local shops and fitness centers—that brick-and-mortar retail is dying.
Should Baton Rouge homeowners refinance as coronavirus fears push down rates?
Stock market fears about the coronavirus have helped push mortgage rates to near all-time lows, which local lenders say gives Baton Rouge homeowners who...
Baton Rouge’s top 10 commercial real estate deals of 2019
Multifamily developments once again topped the list of Baton Rouge's priciest commercial real estate deals in 2019, occupying six of the spots.
Four Baton Rouge homebuyers who tried to fool us … and failed
Homebuyers continue the trend of trying to hide their high-end purchases from public view and real estate agents say it impacts the Baton Rouge market.
Baton Rouge’s 10 most expensive home sales of 2019
The Baton Rouge high-end home market had a good yeart in 2019, according to agents who market the area's priciest residential real estate.
Check out what $14 million (asking) gets you in Baton Rouge
The 12.5-acre estate at 11001 Highland Road built in the early 2000s by Paula Pennington de la Bretonne is back on the real estate market—for $14 million.
Two finalists to compete for LSU lakes project management contract
The LSU Real Estate and Facilities Foundation has narrowed, from six to two, its pool of applicants vying to lead the planned restoration of...
The $500,000 residential divide
The state of the Baton Rouge area residential market depends on which side you find yourself on the $500,000 price-point divide.
