29 Mar The Impact of COVID-19 on The Real Estate Market – Interview w/ Mathew Laborde of Elifin Realty
How is this Coronavirus Pandemic affecting this real estate industry? Maurice Velasquez of Team Real World talks with Mathew Laborde of Elfin Marketing to dissect what we are seeing now in the real estate industry, opportunities people see to help others in this situation, what we can see coming down the pipeline and what you can be doing to prepare...
26 Mar CRE Insights in the Midst of COVID-19
During this COVID-19 pandemic, we have been hard at work checking on clients, keeping deals moving forward, and doing our best to see around the corner of what this unprecedented event will mean for our commercial real estate industry. We felt that it would be helpful in this time to share some of the feedback and insights we’ve received from the...
19 Mar Survival Guide Tips for Tenants During COVID-19
Hey everybody! I hope you are out there staying safe, staying healthy, staying clean. We've got our Lysol wipes and staying clean here at Elifin! Make sure you sanitize, because we've got the coronavirus going around and there's serious health concerns there. But, I'm coming to you with three economic survival tips for tenants. This mostly applies to retail tenants because,...
09 Mar Spanish Town Office Space in Downtown Baton Rouge – The Best of Both Worlds
Most people in Baton Rouge are probably familiar with the Spanish Town neighborhood. Beautiful homes, incredible architecture, and classic Southern charm. Some people might think that in order to be a part of this incredible neighborhood you simply have to buy a house here. Well I'm here to tell you that most of those people would be wrong. 611 North Street,...
04 Mar II City Plaza 5th Floor Office Suite For Lease – Downtown Baton Rouge
Let George give you a peek at the office suite available on the 5th floor of II City Plaza in downtown Baton Rouge. Details: http://bit.ly/IICityPlaza...
28 Feb The Right and Wrong Way to Divide a Market into Submarkets
Has anyone ever attempted to create submarkets? When analyzing trends in a real estate market, it can be very helpful to divide that market into submarkets because stats such as sale prices and transaction volume can differ greatly from one pocket of a Parish / County to another. Here are the submarkets Elifin Realty created for one of our recent research reports...
28 Jan Mathew Laborde on The Patty-G Show with Patrick Gremillion
Mathew Laborde was a guest on The Patty-G Show recently. Patrick Gremillion hosts The Patty-G Show, a podcast for thought provoking business discussions with people from all walks of life! Episode description: "On this wonderful episode #14 I sit down with none other than Matthew Laborde with Elifin Realty. We talk all things commercial real estate and so many things...
31 Dec How competitive is commercial real estate?
Selling commercial real estate may be a competitive and possibly stressful job, however you do not need to be aggressive or cutthroat in your business practices to do very well in the industry. If you are able to convert leads and continually bring in a new string of business, even in market turns, you will have a competitive edge over...
27 Dec What Type of Commercial Property Has the Best Returns?
Commercial real estate is broken down into four major categories: Office Retail Multi-family Industrial But within these four major categories there is a lot of variety. For instance, a retail space could be a small strip mall, a single building, or a full-sized mall. A multi-family property can range from a building that contains four apartments or 100 apartments to a...
24 Dec Top 5 Commercial Real Estate Owner Mistakes of 2019
This is Mathew Laborde, CCIM, coming to you on Christmas Eve from Elifin Realty. So far in 2019, I've done a total of 84 transactions. In those 84 transactions, I've seen a lot of good and a lot of bad. Here's my list of the top 5 mistakes that I've seen commercial real estate property owners make in 2019, that...