I’m a fan of Leonidas. Pronounced (lee-ahn-EYE-dis). Or (lee-AHN-i-dis). Or (lee-AHN-druss), for some reason. Mindy and I were one bad inspection away from calling it home. For years, you couldn’t talk to a Realtor about Leonidas without the new Lycée Français high school coming up. And, for years, you could drive by the old (Don’t...
Somebody get Wolf Blitzer. We have breaking news. Buyer demand in March spiked to record levels, with more pending sales in Orleans Parish than we’ve seen in any prior month. Here’s how March pending sales numbers look compared to the last ten years. If you throw 2020 out as a COVID outlier, April sees the...
Our Chevrolet Nova with vinyl seats and no air conditioning mercifully deposited us at our new home in August of 1977. My dad, mom, two older brothers, and I survived the drive from Albany, NY to a suburb of Detroit. Our sanity wasn’t as fortunate. Undaunted, we ran to the front door, thew it open,...
In January, the median price of a home in Orleans Parish dropped for the third month in a row. I’d posted that it looked like the market might be catching its breath. Well, it took off running again in February. The median price bounced all the way up to $324,000, wiping out the previous months’...
When I walked in the front door to talk with the owner about listing this incredible property in the 7th Ward, I just about passed out. Just press the play button and you’ll understand. The Bernard Villa, as it’s called, began in the 1860s as a citrus plantation. It’s a classic, double-parlored center hall with...
These stats reports have sounded like a broken record. Inventory is historically low, demand is high and prices keep going up. In January, the record keeps on skipping when it comes to inventory and demand. But when it comes to prices, it looks like the market is finally catching its breath. Once again, the number...
Krewe of Red Beans’ response to the COVID crisis continues to blow me away. First, they rolled out Feed the Front Line NOLA, which paid our local restaurants to feed front line medical workers. Feed the Second Line NOLA supported the younger culture bearers of New Orleans by employing them to deliver food to the...
I want to take a quick moment to ask for your help. In March, some kind and driven people launched Culture Aid NOLA to support members of the cultural and hospitality communities who have been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the scope of need grew, so did Culture Aid NOLA’s operation, with two massive food distributions...
The biggest real estate story of 2020 was the lack of inventory all over the country. New Orleans certainly played its part, with new listings off only slightly from 2019, and a surge of buyer demand gobbling them all up. But as challenging as things are for buyers in Orleans Parish, they’re exponentially more difficult...
Real estate markets have a seasonal rhythm to them. New Orleans is no exception. Since most people don’t want to put their home on the market during the holidays, and buyers are too busy celebrating with their families to bother looking, the year starts out slow. The number of new listings hits its peak in...
