Top 10 Residential Sales recorded in the East Baton Rouge parish last year – Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

It was a good year for the area’s high-end residential real estate market in 2024. So good, that the year’s publicly recorded most expensive home sale came in at $6.75 million, nearly 70% higher than the $4 million deal that topped the list in 2023.

But, as Business report Characteristics in its last issue, 2024 did not come without obstacles.

“I think everything was much more difficult because it was an election year … and the uncertainty about interest rates,” says real estate agent Quita Cutrer from Burns & Co. “The insurance was our biggest problem with all the insurance companies leaving the state. Last year, we had very small obstacles that we did not have last year. “

One of the noted trend is seen is an increase in sales outside the market. She says she had four such sales last year ranging from $ 1.6 million to $ 3 million. One of the reasons for the out -of -market business was the lack of inventory. The agents were looking for elsewhere but MLS.

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