What's Happening in Baton Rouge Real Estate!

The Eagle Ford Shale - which begins roughly at the Texas-Mexico border and runs north almost up to San Antonio - is already generating substantive economic benefits for San Antonio.....and is poised to deliver even greater ones in the future. Wages in the industries that support the oil & gas ind...

It's been a good couple of days on the job & employment prospect front for Baton Rouge. Manpower has released the results of its private sector job survey and it shows Baton Rouge (along with Seattle and Milwaukee) at the very top of the hiring markets around the country.  According to their surv...

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 inventor...

It looks like a bit of a mixed bag for home sales data in El Paso in October as compared with the prior year.  There was about a 30% drop off in units sold from 541 in October 2009 down to 416 in October 2010.   The average sales price inched up to just north of $150,000, and the available invent...

It was a tough month for homes sales in Livingston Parish...unfortunately there is just no way to spin it otherwise.  There were 48 homes sold in November 2010 as compared with 148 in November of 2009. The average sales price dropped to $149,000 and available inventory skyrocketed up to 19 months...

It was another month of mixed indicators for home sales in Ascension Parish.  In November 2010 there were 74 homes sold which was a drop off of about 25% from November 2009...and roughly equal to November 2008.  The average sales price increased nicely to $208,000, but the average inventory incre...

It was another mixed bag for home sales in East Baton Rouge Parish in November 2010.   There were 214 homes sold in the Parish in November which was a ~40% drop from the 309 sold in November 2009.  However home sales help up nicely as compared with October (214 vs 213) as there is normally a drop...

The Urban Restoration Enhancement Corporation (UREC) has announced plans to build 21 single family homes targeted for low to moderate income families in Baton Rouge.   Construction on these 1,570 square foot homes will begin by the end of this year and should be available and on the market within...

The Medical sector is the number one driver of jobs and wages in the San Antonio Economy - employing 140,000+ and generating an economic impact of $24.5 billion.  This industry added over 30,000 jobs in the last 10 years and today accounts for over 17% of the total San Antonio workforce. In addit...

It is a day of mixed news on the health of the Dallas housing market.  Case-Schiller released its monthly analysis of home prices and they fell 2.6% in September as compared with September of 2009.  This compares with a .6% decline in the average of the top 20 us real estate markets.   Overall Da...