Fannie Mae has now removed the minimum score requirement as part of the loan underwriting process! That's huge news for the consumer loan market and will open up an avenue to home ownership for a whole new group of individuals. Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriting (DU) system will now review your entire overall financial profile which includes income, assets, payment history & credit behavior in making an automated DU approval/deny decision. The key takeaway from this is that

October 2025 Home Sales Statics for the Greater Baton Rouge area are in and at the chart below: October 2025 residential home sales statistics are in for the Month of October 2025 and it was another very solid month in our area! 727 homes were sold in the Greater Baton Rouge Area in October 2025 vs 673 sold in October 2024 with the median sales price increasing almost 2% up to $269,768. The average days on market inched up by 1 day to 69 days before going pending and histori

In a big win for Brusly, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish and the Greater Baton Rouge Area in general, SNT has selected Brusly as the home of their newest consolidated manufacturing facility with a $60,000,000 investment! This project is expected to create 275 direct jobs and 418 indirect jobs. The direct, permanent jobs created will be huge for the Brusly and WBR Parish which will drive further economic development and new home construction across the Mississippi River. The pro