Baton Rouge Real Estate News

Pelican Point Gonzales Home Sales Trends 2015Originally published here: Pelican Point Gonzales Home Sale Trends 2015I'm working on a Pelican Point pre-listing home appraisal for a local Greater Baton Rouge REALTOR. The following is a report on the home sales that took place and the prices paid fo...

One recent feature Greater Baton Rouge Paragon MLS MLSBOX added to help support adjustments in Baton Rouge Home Appraisal reports And Baton Rouge Real Estate Bloggers is a one page 4-5 charts by subdivision set of charts for up to 10 years! There's also 3 & 5 year options as well generated in sec...

Shannon Slater of DW Slater Appraisals in Texas explains this topic much better than I and wanted to share!   Perhaps there is a contract on your house.  You are in the middle of packing.  Boxes are everywhere and you get a notification that the appraiser is coming to perform an inspection of the...

Dos and Donts of Appraiser - Agent Communication from The Appraisal Foundation as published in REALTOR Magazine by David S. Bunton. This post is about Louisiana, Agent/Broker Comps and Agents measuring homes.  I know other Agents in other States don't measure homes and some say they won't take on...

Recently, Time Magazine did an article on whether a homeowner should install solar panels.  They cited the affordability of solar panels, with a nod of approval towards the approximately 700,000 households in America, who have installed them. However, the article failed to bring up a very import...

Good Appraiser Video Helping To Educate The Public On What We Do by Virigina Home Appraiser, Jonathan Montgomery! I absolutely agree with Jonathan's video about Agent comps and I know this is highly controversial, testy topic. Some Appraisers will disagree and I expect that.  "I just don't see th...

Gap between Appraiser, Homeowner perceptions of home value doubles in July...evident to Baton Rouge Appraisers for "some" appraisals. See below.   This is Bill Cobb Appraiser commentary on the recent Housingwire / Quicken Loans article about the growing gap between what homeowners think their hom...

What Is External Obsolescence - How Baton Rouge Home Appraisers Think?External Obsolescence can be locational factors which decrease the value of your home.  And, it can add "A;Res:" classification for "Adverse" location.   Lenders "may" frown on lending on a home with an adverse location."The de...

Experiencing Issues delivering FNMA 2055's to AMCs for site value formatting?  Maybe I'm as dumb as a box of rocks and I didn't receive the memo. Apparently not because when I posted this to a Facebook group of Appraisers, they had never heard of such formatting.   On FNMA 2055 exterior only orde...

University Club Plantation 2015 Home Sales Baton Rouge Luxury HomesOriginally published on Baton Rouge Housing Reports here: http://www.batonrougehousingreports.com/2015/07/university-club-plantation-2015-home-sales-baton-rouge-luxury-homes/         University Club Plantation Baton Rouge January ...