What's Happening in Baton Rouge Real Estate!

I prepare a monthly home sales trends analysis for all the major Texas cities each month, and I'm beginning to sound a bit like a broken record!  I am amazed at how similar the trend lines are for each of the big Texas cities.  All show a sharp drop off in October & November 2010 sales as compare...

Looks like the Houston real estate market is continuing to plug along based on November 2010 activity.  There were 3,905 homes sold in Houston in November - which was down about 20% from the same month in 2009.   I believe the dropoff can be attributed almost entirely to the elimination of the ho...

I've pulled updated homes sales numbers for Collin County - November 2010...and there are some pretty interesting figures. Unit sales in November fell to 682 down from 901 in November 2010.  As in previous months - you can clearly see the effects of the homebuyers tax credit in 2009.  The average...

I have charted up some monthly and historical data regarding homes sales trends in Ft. Worth. This data is a roll-up of information for Ft. Worth, Arlington and NE Tarrant County, so you can have an overview of home sales trends for Tarrant County. The average sales price and months of inventory ...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released their compensation analysis for 2009.  They analyzed data for the 3,113 counties in the US.  The largest 167 counties account for 2/3 of the compensation earned in the US - while representing only 5% of the total number of counties. I pulled out the 8 ...

Looks the El Paso housing market is hanging in there and holding steady as the year is ending.  There were 392 homes sold in November - a sharp drop-off from the same month in 2009 - but is explained by the end of the homebuyers tax credit.  Average sales price is only slightly off at $146,200 as...

The Louisiana Workforce Commission has released their November 2010 data on employment throughout the state.  I blogged yesterday about how Baton Rouge's unemployment rate dropped from 8% down to 7.7% and how the unemployment rate dropped in all 8 metropolitan areas around the state! I thought I'...

The unemployment rate actually fell in all 8 Louisiana metropolitan areas and for the state as a whole in November 2010.  I have charted up the unemployment rate for each of those areas comparing the rate in October 2010 vs November 2010.  Thanks to the Louisiana Workforce Commission for all the ...

Forbes has been busy lately putting together Top 10 lists and fortunately for Texas - the state has fared very will in those lists.  Just last week - Forbes put together a Top 10 list for shopping and the Lone Star state dominated....It's another week and another Top 10 list that Texas dominates....

Looks like Christmas is coming a week early to San Antonio.  VMC - a technology consulting and outsourcing firm - has announced that they will open a support and customer service care center in San Antonio in January 2011.  They expect to hire 600 employees at a rate of 100 per month until all th...