re: Where does the money come from to support home prices in Lakeview?

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Why pay to live in Lakeview when eastern Metairie is basically the same thing but with far less crime, functioning streets, lower utility costs, etc?

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ETA: Prior to moving back to BR, we rented on Lane and General Haig. It's the best place to raise a family in OP. But, I still wouldn't necessarily want to own there. You don't get the perks and charm of Uptown, Mid-City, and the Garden District, and you're so, so close to Jefferson Parish.

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Get on Zillow and search for houses in Lakeview for $550k

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Ok. Here you go

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Ok. Here you go

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conveniently cherry picked. Now where are the better houses for 30% less in Bucktown and other parts of Metairie.

I know you won’t cave, but I am literally in this market and have been since January. At nearly every price range, a house in Lakeview is nicer than a house in Metairie for 30% less. It comes down to do you want to live in Orleans and do you value walkability and other amenities like City Park.

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conveniently cherry picked

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They really aren’t. Show me the nice new houses in Lakeview for 550k

Also what y’all aren’t calculating, a house in Nola and Metairie that cost the exact same amount, is still going to come out 30% less in actual payments from the property tax and insurance differences. That was one thing that blew me away as a first time homebuyer many years ago

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Bucktown is steadily turning into Lakeview without all the headaches. Most lots are bigger too.

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It’s freaking crazy the amount of big new homes being built north of Veterans and east of Bonnabel

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It’s freaking crazy the amount of big new homes being built north of Veterans and east of Bonnabel

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This is where the old/new Copeland house is located, right ? That area’s always been nice, and seems a logical place to build expensive new homes .

ETA or was his house west of Bonnabel ?







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you are losing tree canopy disagree

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OK. Where between vets, bonnabel. West esplanade and the canal is an oak lined street. Objectively, there are far more mature trees in lakeview.

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walkability Lakeview doesn’t have walkability It’s a suburb just like Metairie

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Without crossing any major we walk to school, grocery, library, playgrounds, a dozen restaurants, a few ice cream shops and city park. It’s not the French quarter or uptown, but that isn’t the comparison. If you like to bike or run it is the best launching neighborhood in the city.

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decent selection of private and public schools Lakeview to bucktown changes your choice of private schools? Hynes I’ll give you, but I personally don’t know any of my Lakeview friends that actually use hynes

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Your personal knowledge doesn’t change reality. A plurality of students who attend hynes live in 70124. If you don’t like hynes, you can pay tuition and walk your kids to St. Paul’s or st. Dominic’s. Is there a school as good as any of these three in east Metairie?

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easy access to downtown via surface streets. Getting to downtown and especially uptown seems as easy or easier in east Metairie than Lakeview

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Now that’s just crazy talk. From “east Metairie” you have one option and that’s I-10. Lakeview has the same option in addition to canal, Marconi/Orleans and wisner/esplanade to access the city.

Does any of this justify the prices? I have no idea but comparing lakeview to a treeless neighborhood hemmed in by major roads and littered with multi family housing units throughout is apples to oranges. And oranges cost 30% more than apples for real reasons other than wanting a Nola address.

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I never once in my wildest dreams did I think Metairie would be described as treeless

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You aren’t comparing Metairie to lakeview. You are comparing the part of Metairie across the canal where housing is 30% cheaper than lakeview. That part of Metairie is lacking in trees.

If you want to live in Metairie in an oak lined neighborhood you can. And your house will cost more than lakeview houses.

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The entire area very close to the canal between vets and west esplanade is oak lined

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What street exactly? Because that describes lake avenue which is a treeless boulevard of multifamily apartments and boil shacks.

There are plenty of reasons to poopoo on lakeview and the metro area in generalS But wondering why housing costs more in lakeview than it does behind the Winn Dixie off veterans highway or in bucktown isn’t hard to understand.