December 2025 Home Sales Statistics for the Greater Baton Rouge area are in and at the chart below: December and full year 2025 homes sales statistics are wrapped for the year and it was another good, solid year for residential home sales in the Greater Baton Rouge area! December 2025 shows 713 sold homes vs 701 sold in December 2024 with a median sales price of $263,000 vs $263,133. In addition, there were 683 new homes listed and 541 homes went pending in December 2025 vs

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

A Rural Development loan is a a loan program administered and funded through the US Department of Agriculture. It is a 100% loan program so no down payment is required! An R/D loan is geared to a first time homebuyer (but CAN have owned a home previously) who has generally good credit, but not down payment funds needed for other loan types. Actual loan qualification must be done by a mortgage lender, but there are several key factors in qualifying for an R/D loan: The house

AtmosClear has announced a new carbon capture project to be located at the Port of Baton Rouge in Port Allen, LA 70767! This $885,000,000 project will build a facility with the capability of converting biomass such as sugarcare byproducts and forestry products into renewable power all the while being able to capture around 700,000 metric tons of CO2 annually. In a further win, Microsoft has signed an agreement with AtmosClear to provide them around 7 Million metric tons of c

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