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

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

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

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

February 2026 residential homes sales activity in the Greater Baton Rouge area is now in and the numbers look pretty good! The month to month and year over year changes are all generally positive which shows some strength and growth in our housing markets - unlike many other markets around the country February 2026 vs 2025 stats show: 633 vs 597 homes sold 929 vs 1,002 new listings $278,500 vs $259,900 median sales price 82 vs 83 days on market prior to the final sale 4.2 vs

Studyville Enterprises has announced a substantial expansion of their workforce in Baton Rouge, LA! They are an education technology company that develops digital platforms to allow schools across the country to track tutoring performance and to strengthen literacy instruction. Studyville Enterprises was born in Louisiana in 2020 and their corporate headquarters is located on Jefferson Hwy in Baton Rouge. This expansion announcement will not only retain 12 current jobs, BUT

Shintech has just re-affirmed how important the Greater Baton Rouge area is to them by announcing a $3.4 Billion (yes Billion with a B!) expansion to their existing facility in Iberville Parish. Plans call for the company to build a second ethylene unit and a fourth chlor-alkali and vinyl chloride monomer unit. This will be a multi-phased expansion with the initial construction phase to be complete by 2030. This expansion will create 162 new jobs with an average salary at a

Big economic win for St Charles Parish has just been announced and it will support continued growth in the Ascension Parish housing market! Southern Energy Renewables has announced plans to invest $1.4 Billion to develop a green methanol and sustainable aviation fuel facility starting in 2027 with an estimated completion date of 2029. This plant is the first investment in Louisiana by SER and is planned to create 120 direct, high paying permanent jobs and 394 indirect jobs.

The City of Baton Rouge just announced a huge, 20 Year Agreement with American Cruise Lines to bring cruise ship dockings back to downtown Baton Rouge!. It is estimated that this will inject at least $25,000,000 into the Baton Rouge economy throughout the life of this agreement. As an added benefit, American Cruise Lines will be spending around $2,000,000 to refurbish the landing dock that their ships will use to dock downtown. This dock had fallen into disrepair over the y

Ascension Parish has become Louisiana's fastest growing parish through a combination of location & years of growth planning that is coming to fruition! Ascension Parish is home to one of the top ranked public education systems in the entire state which makes it super attractive to families. In addition, the Parish is located between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with easy, I-10 access to each city. The Mississippi River bisects the Parish, allowing for plant and industrial gr

CLM Equipment - a heavy equipment company - has elected to open their 5th Louisiana location in Port Allen, LA! CLM Equipment just closed on an $850,000, 3 acre lot on Commercial Dr with plans to build a 15,000 sf facility for sales and service. Initially they expect to add 15 - 20 new jobs with plans to further expand their job force in the future. Business is good for CLM as they are Louisiana's exclusive distributor of Hitachi excavators and wheel loaders. Welcome to Wes

The Baton Rouge Airport reported a record traffic count of 847,000 passengers in 2025! This is the second consecutive year of record traffic counts with the Airport reporting 844,000 passengers served in 2024. This record passenger count comes on the heels of a parking lot enhancement program that was rolled out earlier in the year and sets the stage for a terminal modernization project that will kick off later in 2026. This airport traffic news further underscores the posit

Big economic news coming to Walker in early 2026 courtesy of The Shaw Group! Shaw has an already existing pipe fabrication and specialty services facility located in Walker that currently employs 165 people. This facility supports industrial projects tied to power generation, oil and gas, and data center development in and around Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Because of the success of this facility, Shaw will be adding 200 new direct jobs locally while retaining the exist

The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Area showed some very strong job growth adding 2,700 new jobs in November 2025 as compared to November 2024! These new jobs grew our job employment base to around 438,000 jobs which is greater than this time in 2024 and lifts our total number of jobs back up to levels seen in the early fall of 2025. In addition, the unemployment rate for Baton Rouge fell to 3.9%, .2% below November 2024. All in, this is a great jobs report for the Baton Rouge are

Louisiana has become the first state EVER to win back-to-back Platinum Deal of the Year Awards! These awards recognize one economic win for a state per year as measured against all 50 states. In 2024, Louisiana won the award for the Meta AI Data center that is currently under construction in the northern part of the state. Louisiana won the 2025 Platinum Deal award for the $6 Billion Hyundai Steel's new plant that will begin construction in late 2026 on a 1,700 acre tract of

It was a record setting year for the Greater Baton Rouge Area in terms of economic projects with a record $10.6B in capital investment projects announced! These economic projects are projected to create over 2,100 new, direct jobs which equates to over $190 million new payroll dollars that will be circulating through our local economy! Here's a summary graphic of the economic wins for Baton Rouge courtesy of the Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership. In addition, there wi

The State of Louisiana has announced a huge, record year of investment and job creation! In 2025, LED has announced over $61 Billion Dollars in new, capital investment projects that are projected to create around 9,300 direct, new jobs. In addition, these new jobs are estimated to average an annual pay of $91,000 which is around $30,000 above the current state average! While these new capital projects are spread around the state, the Greater Baton Rouge Region is poised to r