re: Home Sales in BR Decline; LP and AP Increase

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I was a retired police officer Lsurussian. Unlike brpd the dept I worked for did not allow a lot of over time. To supplement my income I worked with framers building homes. You will find a lot of BR firemen also work in the construction trades on the side to supplement their income.

Now why don't you get from behind the computer where you think you are a big man and say what you say on the computer to my face.

If your are not man enough to say it to someone's face don't hide behind your computer.

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Kingbob,
no offense but you don't have to sell me on it. I'm aware of the area. I lived in Baton Rouge for 9 years and the last 5 have been in ole LP, starter home.

i would say that i would disagree with most of your suggestions.

Areas off Highland road or either way to expensive, or too old for my liking. I'm also not interested in cookie cutter houses with no yards like off burbank.
Garden District is too close to the hood and i'm not into bars or whatever activities your referring to, Southdowns is expensive for what you get and traffic sucks, especially on gameday, Capital Heights and old Goodwood aren't bad areas and that's where we are looking as well as the area in between jefferson, i-10, bluebonnet and drusilla.

I would not say Broodmoor, Sherwood, and Shenandoah are out of the way. I could live in those areas and it would take my wife 15 minutes to get to work, or we could stay where we are or go to Priaireville and it'll take her 45 minutes on a good day. That area is out of the running though b/c i don't want St. Thomas Moore or St. Jean Vianney for schools.

Also looking at the area off Jefferson where it meets Highland. That's ideal for me. Further out than i want, but i like the houses, the yards, the prices, and it's only a 50 minute ride back home to family instead of 90 minutes where i'm at now.

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Central, Zachary, and the Southern portion of the parish still have SF homes coming up just not in great numbers. Look at the sf home permits inside BR the numbers are not there.

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I wouldn't read too much in the numbers about how people are leaving one parish for another. For one, "new listings" are any home being put on the market -- could be a 50 year old house, could be put up by people moving for work, or downsizing, or upsizing. The second is that East Baton Rouge Parish still accounts for most of the sales activity in the metro area. There were more houses sold in EBR in October than there were in Livingston and Ascension combined. About all these numbers show is that there's a good bit of activity in the local housing market. People are buying and selling, prices are continuing to go up and the homes on the market are moving.

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This. I live in 70806 and prices are going up and up. Realtors used to shun the area because of the crime statistics (the affluent areas share a zip code with much of "Mall City"), but it seems people are really coming back in a big way. The new investments along government street seem to be adding more and more fuel to the fire in that area. If I had the capital, I would be shopping for a duplex or 4 plex in the neighborhood to renovate and start renting out while using the revenues from that to start flipping small starter homes. It's a great neighborhood and it's refreshing to see it coming around like it is.

Ummm.....70806 never left. No one shunned it ever and you are not likely to find many affordable fixer uppers here.

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