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Cook: Warehouse set for Balis Drive
The new owner of a vacant 2.6-acre site on Balis Drive, behind the Wal-Mart on College Drive, plans to improve the land with an office...
Baton Rouge’s most expensive commercial deals of 2016
Burbank Commons sold for $14.9 million in 2016, as part of a larger acquisition valued at nearly $128 million. Stock photo
Baton Rouge apartment complexes...
Baton Rougeans are increasingly going to great lengths to keep their high-end home buys...
Though it was listed for $2.95 million, the sale of this 8,300-square-foot home at 19506 Perkins Road East was recorded at the East Baton...
Baton Rouge’s 10 most expensive homes sales of 2016
This seven-bedroom, 9,556-square-foot home at 18423 N. Mission Hills Ave. in the Country Club of Louisiana sold for $3.2 million on Sept. 15, and...
Amid accusations of fraud and deception, a prominent Livingston Parish auction house battles an...
Henderson Auctions auctioneer Ken Buhler describes some of the items up for bid at a two-day fall construction auction held in Livingston last...
Cook: Apartments set for Conway
Officials, brokers and developers break ground on the Conway planned community in May 2016. (Photo courtesy of C.J. Brown Realtors).
A notable apartment developer has...
Cook: Former LeBlanc’s owners sell Airline Highway tract in Gonzales
(Photo by iStock)
Members of the family that owned LeBlanc’s Food Stores, which in October were sold to Rouses, have purchased a 4.24-acre tract next...
Cook: Here’s something else besides the flood (or politics)
Here’s something I said a lot during my Thanksgiving holiday: “Let’s talk about something else.” I even had a banner that hung from my...
Four LSU-area student housing complexes change hands in mega deal
A Los Angeles, California-based real estate investment group has acquired four student housing complexes near LSU in a deal totaling nearly $128 million.
The sale...
Baton Rouge planners, property owners revisit building height restrictions
Should there be a height limit on buildings in Baton Rouge? In a city that doesn’t have much of a skyline, it may seem...
Santa Maria residents oppose rezoning request for land near Blue Bayou
Residents of the upscale Santa Maria neighborhood are pushing back against Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin’ owner Sam Haynes’ request to rezone a plot...
Cook: Let’s talk ‘substantial damage’
(Photo by The Associated Press)
The main fear for homeowners whose homes flooded in August is “substantial damage.” If the Federal Emergency Management Agency decides your...
Baton Rouge real estate broker purchases land in Lafayette historic district for $450K
While the Lafayette economy is getting hammered by the continued low price of oil, the situation is creating opportunities for those who believe now...
Cook: Baton Rouge’s residential market is adjusting well after the flood
More than a month has passed since the flood, and I thought it might be interesting to examine how the residential real estate market is...
Small and independent homebuilders are being forced to adapt as national tract developers increasingly...
Dwayne Gafford has gotten creative to compete with larger builders by partnering with other builders and cutting a deal with the developer of Twin Lakes...
Cook: A lot of unknowns, but expect the market to stabilize
(Photo by The Associated Press)
With the recent flood damaging or destroying tens of thousands of homes in our area, everyone is looking for an...
Watermark hotel downtown now slated for October opening; second Magpie Café location set to...
The new downtown Marriott Autograph hotel, The Watermark, is now expected to open in early October, while Magpie Café is about two weeks out...
Jerry Del Rio announces partnership with German company Engel and Völkers
Longtime residential real estate agent Jerry Del Rio has entered into a license agreement with German real estate company Engel and Völkers, and will...
Historically low inventory levels in the Capital Region mean prospective homebuyers must act quickly...
Donna Wolff, a Realtor with RE/MAX Louisiana and former president of the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors, says the entire Capital Region is...
If you can navigate around the regulations and risks, investing in real estate abroad...
Baton Rouge businessman Martin Svendson spent years looking for a suitable investment abroad before purchasing a 5,600-acre cattle ranch in Argentina. Photography courtesy Martin Svendson
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