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Creating distinct zones for different activities, such as dining, cooking, and lounging, helps in organizing the space efficiently and makes it more functional. ”— Brett Harris HAMMOND, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES, July 19, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Builders Direct Floorworx, under the leadership of Brett Harris, highlights the growing trend of transforming backyard patios into outdoor entertainment ...
Manchac Homes, a leading home builder known for its commitment to quality and southern craftsmanship. Our focus has always been on delivering homes embodying our vision while meeting our clients’ needs. We take great pride in our relationships and the quality of our work.”— Russell Alleman, President and Founder of Manchac Homes BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, ...
Ask a New Orleans resident where the next up-and-coming neighborhood is, and you’ll likely get several different answers. Still, a handful of areas across the metro are drawing increasing attention at open houses, among investors, and from locals seeking value. These are the places where new development, business openings, and a sense of renewed energy ...
In New Orleans, insurance costs are high, and homes are old. As Richard Hébert puts it, every house has “had a termite walking through it as a resident at one point.” Many sellers respond by playing down a home’s problems. Hébert, a luxury real estate advisor with Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty in New Orleans, says ...
New Orleans doesn’t have much room to grow outward. Surrounded by water and constrained by geography, the metro can’t absorb demand the way Houston or Phoenix can through suburban expansion. That physical limitation shapes nearly everything about how the market behaves, from where prices move to which neighborhoods attract new interest. It also means that ...
Original reporting from other Louisiana markets on the KeyCrew network.
Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...
Jon Lester did not set out to build a real estate brand in Mississippi. It started with a beat-up house on a street in Long Beach, a conversation with his parents, and a gut feeling that would not go away. Jon runs growth and operations for Home Buyer Mississippi, a cash home buying company serving ...
The New Orleans commercial real estate market is undergoing a clear shift from the seller-driven conditions of recent years to a landscape where buyers hold more leverage and deals face greater scrutiny. Rising costs, increased inventory, and local regulatory challenges are forcing both investors and owners to rethink their strategies in a city known for ...
New Orleans property owners are grappling with a stark economic contradiction. While the average home price in the city is 15 percent below the national average, the typical cost of homeownership is 15 percent above it. Michael Mito, Commercial Division Director at United Real Estate | Partners, says this imbalance between property values and ownership ...
In New Orleans real estate, most investors want move-in ready properties. Stephen Keighery actively seeks out the ones others won’t touch – and that difference in perspective reveals everything about how value is actually created. Walk into a house with Stephen Keighery, and you’ll witness something peculiar. While most people recoil at peeling paint, structural ...
M Square Commercial’s Brittany Megrath on how rising costs are reshaping retail development strategy Commercial real estate developers face a straightforward problem in 2025: land costs, construction expenses, and capital access all increased simultaneously while single-tenant economics became increasingly challenging. The solution emerging across multiple markets involves splitting costs between two tenants rather than one, ...
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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...
The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...
In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...
For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...
The company has already published over 5,000 articles in collaboration with over 1,800 market experts across all 50 states, powered by a tech-forward approach to research and reporting. MIAMI, FL – July 28, 2026: KeyCrew Media, the expert-sourced real estate news network, today unveiled KeyCrew Local, a network of local real estate news sites and ...
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