Darryl Glade's New Orleans Real Estate

If you have ever visited New Orleans you know how hard it can be to choose a restaurant.  There are so many here!  So I have made a very short list of some of my favorite restaurants in New Orleans.  This is by no means a complete list...just a few that I like in a few different types of cuisines...

New Orleans, LA Real Estate & Property - Market Report December 2007 This report focuses on Condos. December 2007 - 890 condos for sale. December 2006 - 896 condos for sale. 54 condos were sold in December 2007. 51 condos were sold in December 2006. The average price for sold condos was $243,000...

New Orleans, LA Real Estate & Property - Market Report December 2007  This report focuses on Single Family Homes. December 2007 - 2072 properties for sale. December 2006 - 2326 properties for sale. 183 homes were sold in December 2007. 251 homes were sold in December 2006. The average price for ...

Mardi Gras 2008 is here! I thought I would go ahead and post the 2008 Uptown New Orleans schedule for this year’s Mardi Gras parades. Enjoy the parades and have a safe Mardi Gras 2008! Mardi Gras Schedule Friday, January 25 6:00 Oshun 6:45 Pygmalion     Saturday, January 26 1:00 Pontchartrain 2:...

Here are a few important New Orleans, Louisiana Websites:   City of New Orleans - Official website for the city of New Orleans Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office - Look up Orleans Parish real estate tax records. New Orleans Louisiana Real Estate - Website that focuses on real estate in New Orleans...

Let's make our real estate more green and environmentally conscience shall we? So the title of the blog is a play on the Bruce Willis movie "Live Free or Die Hard." I haven't seen it but want to desperately! Anyway, I was doing a bit of research and stumbled upon a few ways to help the environmen...

Which home improvement project should you choose to tackle before you sell your home? Ahh, that question is on the lips of nearly every home owner when they are about to list their home. HomeGain just came out with the results of their national survey of 2,000 real estate agents. The question pos...

Everybody is talking about it…are we going towards a recession in 2008? A recession would certainly not be good and it would hit investor portfolios very hard…those same portfolios that were hit hard in 2007! I just read an article in BusinessWeek that speaks directly about the recession risk th...

Bank of America just bought Countrywide, the number 1 mortage lender, for $4 billion and may have saved the US economy.  Ok, that is a bit of an exaggeration!  But there is some level of merit to that statement. Countrywide services about 1 in 6 home loans in the US and a bankruptcy would have c...

Regardless of what’s going on in the market, people will always be buying and selling real estate. According to Richard Gaylord, NAR president, 2007 existing home sales was higher than 2002 (which was a record-breaking year). Not bad in my opinion! We just have to remember to put things into con...