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

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

What a great way to end the week with a closing in Shamrock Garden Subdivision in Baton Rouge Rouge 70814! After a couple of weeks of delays to get to the closing table we finally got everything sorted out for a surprise Friday closing. We successfully navigated an FHA appraisal for the house - both from a value and property condition perspective and prepared to close according to the contract. We ran into a snag with the Seller's lender and getting a mortgage payoff amount

I finished up the month of April with 98 total running miles! And that includes 4 straight down days with no running due to some allergy nonsense that blew in earlier this month. That gives me a total of 366 miles run year to date - about 92 miles per month average. I'm now up to where ideally I'd like to be in terms of the number of miles I'd like to average per month for the balance of the year which is 92 miles. It was a good running month as it included one competitive

Woodlawn Estates Subdivision is a sought after, large subdivision centrally located in Baton Rouge just west of Jones Creek and north of Tiger Bend - 70817! Woodlawn Estates homes were built generally starting in the late 1980's and early 1990's and are characterized by a pretty wide variety of design styles ranging from ranch to more traditional Acadian style. The homes tend to range in size from 1,800 up to over 2,400 living sf with values ranging from $300,000 - $400,000!

Oak Pointe Subdivision is a small, new subdivision located just off of Tiger Bend and east of Jones Creek in 70817! Oak Pointe consists of garden style, zero lot line newish construction homes where construction began in 2017. Most of the homes are around 5-6 years old and are built by a number of different home builders. I have found that the homes are of generally higher quality builds and have a custom home type feel. In general, the homes range in size from 1,700 - 2,00

Finished up another great lunch with my Dad at Tio Javi's in Baton Rouge - 70808! It's one of our very favorite restaurants and one of the only places in Baton Rouge that you can get really good, traditional Tex-Mex. My family is originally from Texas so we all grew up eating Tex-Mex. It can be a challenge to find the good stuff here in Baton Rouge, but Tio Javi's always delivers. This restaurant was originally a Ninfa's Restaurant which is a Houston based chain. The resta

Air Liquide has announced a major, $350,000,000 plant expansion project to support the under development $5.8 Billion Hyundai Steel Mill construction project on the West Bank of Ascension Parish! This expansion from Air Liquide will physically occur at their existing plant in St James Parish and they will be expanding their pipeline infrastructure along the Mississippi River to connect to the Hyundai project. This project announcement gives further support to just how impact

The East Baton Rouge Parish Planning Commission just approved the next phase of development at THE BLVD at Harding in Baton Rouge - 70807! A full service grocery store along with additional retail and other business will be part of this 100,000 sf development located at the intersections of Harding and Howell Boulevards. The grocery store is expected to be branded as a Fresh Express store and is being built in a partnership with Associated Grocers. This will bring much nee

March 2026 residential home sales statistics for the Greater Baton Rouge Area are in and the month AND year to date numbers are all positive! Our real estate market tends not to operate at the extremes (both good and bad) that you can see in many of the other real estate markets around the country. We tend to be pretty steady as you go, but with positive trends in both increasing median sales prices and number of homes sold. March 2026 vs 2025 stats show: 817 vs 729 homes s

Today was the last of the 'Big 3' competitive races in Baton Rouge that I run every year. I ran the OLOL Tiger 10K this morning and set a new personal best time of 48.42! This was the 3rd race in a row that I've run a personal best time and I shaved about 28 seconds off of my previous best time! This a hugely popular race in Baton Rouge. All 3 of the related races sold out with about 6,600 total runners registered. There were 3,100 runners registered for the 10K, 2,900 f

I've officially completed my required continuing education courses for 2026 with this CE class on successions completed on Tuesday. Super informative class about the importance of keeping your estate planning up to date so as to make your wishes clearly known to your heirs after you pass. Lots and lots of stories about unintended consequences and complications for heirs because their parents(s) didn't manage their affairs in the later years of their lives. This course was

March 2026 is in the books and it was a good running month with 100 total miles! That gives me a total of 268 miles run year to date - about 90 miles per month average. My overall goal for the year is to average 92 miles per month, so I'm on track to meet that number. I'm looking forward to April as I have a 10K race coming up mid-month. The OLOL Tiger 10K will be on April 19th and I'm hoping to improve on my last 10K run time during the Mardi Gras Mambo 10K! Are you intere

Lipsey's, who has called the Baton Rouge Area home for nearly 75 years, has announced groundbreaking for their new corporate headquarters and a new, high-tech distribution center located on Highland Rd in St George, LA! This new facility will encompass nearly 265,000 sf of space and will allow for expanded hiring at the corporate office level as well as integrate advanced logistics and workflow design, expanded storage capacity, and upgraded technology infrastructure in the n