April 2026 homes sales statistics for the Greater Baton Rouge area now available and our local residential housing market continues to chug along with positive numbers generally across the board! Median sales prices continue to increase and we continue to have increasing unit sales. Our market - luckily - tends to be mostly consistent. We generally never see the huge dips that you see in many of the larger, coastal areas/states. Slow and steady is a good descriptor of our

Holy Cow - Huge tourism news for Baton Rouge in 2025! A record setting 9.4 million people visited Baton Rouge in 2025 and spent a record $1.3 billion dollars in our city. This in turn supports over 42,000 jobs in the Greater Baton Rouge metropolitan area. Here are some additional stats - Meetings/Conventions/Sporting events booked 89,000 room nights 244 individual events 315,000 attendees $193 million dollar impact The United States Bowling Conference held their annual gath

Gulf Mortgage Group is offer a free 1-0 Loan Buydown Program that runs through 6/30/26! On all conventional and government purchase loans, Gulf Mortgage is covering the cost of one-year temporary rate buydowns! This allows buyers to get a 1% lower interest rate for the first year of their loan with NO additional cost to them. This is a great way to ease into homeownership and save some money during that first year! David Bryan with Gulf Mortgage Group has this loan program in

I had lunch last week at one of my very favorite lunch spots - Martin Wine Cellar (Moss Side Lane) in Baton Rouge - 70808! This place is truly a hidden gem. Martin Wine Cellar initially opened in New Orleans as a wine/spirits shop with a deli. They've since expanded to Baton Rouge and I can't get enough of their food! All the lunch food is made fresh to order - it really is some of the freshest food that I've had in Baton Rouge. Price and portion sizes are great as I alway

Accessing your home's equity can be a challenge for self employed individuals and/or small business owners. Some lenders have a difficult time wading through all the income/expense/tax documents that are in play in these instances and because of that either won't provide a HELOC option or undervalue the equity they allow you to access. Synergy One Lending has rolled out a HELOC program designed to streamline both the information provided by the borrower as well as the approv

Turner Industries - a home-grown Baton Rouge area company - has announced a huge investment project in nuclear manufacturing at 2 of their existing facilities including Port Allen, LA 70767! This project will add 500 direct, high paying jobs in West Baton Rouge Parish with salaries averaging $77,000. Turner will expand it's Port Allen facility which has been in place since 1983 to accommodate this opportunity. It is estimated that an additional ~650 indirect jobs will be cr

Self employed clients can have a challenge at times getting approved for a home mortgage. Some lenders don't have the experience to successfully deliver this type of loan program, others don't offer it at all. David Bryan with Gulf Mortgage Group has this loan program in place. David is based in Prairieville, but can offer this mortgage program anywhere in the State of Louisiana. I've worked with David in excess of 15 years - he's a super talented lender with great custome

Just finished up another 2 hour real estate continuing education class - this one on Redhibition in Louisiana. This course was put on by Commerce Title and was taught by one of their real estate attorneys. Very informative and interesting class as it relates to property disclosure information from the sellers and what happens when a seller doesn't disclose material defects related to their home to the buyer. A material defects is one that, if disclosed to the buyer, might

Had a great Friday night dinner at one of the best restaurants in all of Baton Rouge - DiGiulio Brothers Italian Restaurant - 70808! The restaurant was packed as usual and we sat up at the bar to eat and people watch. I had the Chicken Avezzano which is a fried chicken breast, fried eggplant medallions and melted cheese served with a side of pasta and red sauce. Dinner was off the charts good as usual and the company and people watching was great as well! Highly recommend th