What's Happening in Baton Rouge Real Estate!

If you are a first time homebuyer in the Baton Rouge area and are contemplating purchasing a home....it remains a great time to do so. I'm in the process of working with a young couple who is purchasing their first home.  We have located a great, new construction home in Livingston Parish that wi...

Its the first of the year and more and more 2011 forecasts are being released.  The latest report on El Paso to be released is UTEP's Borderplex Economic Outlook.  I think it paints a generally positive picture for job and real estate growth in El Paso. The El Paso economy is expected to grow at ...

Allied Van Lines just released the results of the 43rd annual survey of migration patterns across US states.  They analyze the number of inbound and outbound shipments that they handle for each state and measure the states that had the greatest difference in people coming into their states as opp...

I really enjoy digging through employment numbers for different cities to see how their labor markets are constructed.  Looking at how employment is dispersed out among the different sectors generally gives you some great insight as to how the individual city economy is structured.  I did a post ...

It's really no secret that the Houston job market it immense and varied, so I thought it might be interesting to see how and where the jobs are dispersed within the Houston labor market. The Texas Workforce Commission puts out annual information, so the numbers below are for the year-end 2009.  W...

2010 has been an exciting year for San Antonio on the job announcement front. From existing local corporations announcing their expansion plans to exciting relocation announcements from out of state companies 2010 - and certainly 2011 are shaping up to be banner years for jobs in San Antonio. I b...

Comerica has released its initial monthly economic index tracking tool for the Texas economy - the Texas Economic Activity Index. Comerica recently relocated its corporate headquarter from Michigan to downtown Dallas citing number of reasons.  One of the primary drivers behind this relocation was...

A new, 17 acre housing development on Burbank - between Ben Hur and Gardere Lane - is scheduled to break ground in mid 2011...with homes available for purchase a few months later!  This gated community development will house 92 lots and will contain garden homes ranging from 1,500 - 1,900 square ...

Here are the November 2010 home sales trends for San Antonio.  The numbers look quite similar to October's numbers and mirror almost exactly what is occurring in all the other major Texas cities. There were 1,249 homes sold in November 2010, down substantially from November 2009 when the homebuye...

I have pulled Austin homes sales trends for November 2010 and it looks like to me that the Austin real estate market continues to plug along.  There were 1,345 homes sold in November 2010, down sharply from November 2009 when the homebuyers tax credit was in full effect.  Interestingly enough the...