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2025 South Louisiana Retail Market: Transaction Summary

2025 South Louisiana Retail Market: Transaction SummaryA comprehensive analysis of retail property sales across South Louisiana, powered by ELIFIN's proprietary transaction database.365 Retail Sales  |  $611.2 MillionTotal retail property transactions recorded across South Louisiana in 2025 — a 101% increase in dollar volume and 23% increase in transaction count compared to 2024.ELIFIN is Louisiana's #1 commercial real estate brokerage by...

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2025 South Louisiana Commercial Real Estate Year in Review

2025 South Louisiana Commercial Real Estate Year in ReviewPublished by ELIFIN  |  Updated February 2026  |  Data through December 31, 2025South Louisiana's commercial real estate market surged in 2025. Across the state's three major metros—Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Lafayette—ELIFIN tracked 1,405 commercial property sales totaling approximately $2.6 billion in dollar volume. That represents an 11% increase in transaction count...

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2025 Lafayette Commercial Real Estate Year in Review

2025 Lafayette Commercial Real Estate Year in ReviewLafayette Parish closed 2025 with 341 commercial real estate transactions, generating an estimated $423.7 million in total dollar volume. Across industrial, retail, office, land, and multifamily property types, the Acadiana market delivered consistent deal flow in every quarter — with a particularly strong finish in Q4.This year-in-review is powered by ELIFIN's proprietary transaction...

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2025 New Orleans Metro Commercial Real Estate Year in Review

2025 New Orleans Metro Commercial Real Estate Year in ReviewThe Greater New Orleans commercial real estate market posted solid results in 2025, recording 519 sales transactions across Orleans and Jefferson parishes with a combined dollar volume of $847.6 million. That total represents a 2.2% increase in dollar volume over 2024 despite a slight 1.5% dip in transaction count — a...

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2025 Baton Rouge Commercial Real Estate Year in Review

2025 Baton Rouge Commercial Real Estate Year in ReviewA comprehensive look at Greater Baton Rouge commercial property sales, powered by ELIFIN's proprietary transaction database.ELIFIN is Louisiana's #1 commercial real estate brokerage by number of sales. With specialized agents across three offices, a proprietary database tracking over 59,000 commercial properties and 41,000+ property owner contacts, and more than 5.4 million logged...

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2025 South Louisiana Industrial Market: Transaction Summary

2025 South Louisiana Industrial Market: Transaction SummaryA data-driven analysis of 301 industrial property sales representing $305.8 million in estimated dollar volume across South Louisiana's three major markets.South Louisiana's industrial real estate market delivered consistent transaction activity throughout 2025, with 301 recorded sales spanning warehouse, manufacturing, distribution, and flex-industrial properties. ELIFIN — Louisiana's #1 commercial real estate brokerage by number of...

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Apprentice Questions: Know Your Block with Peter Laville

Today's Apprentice Question is for Peter Laville, Land Specialist in Baton Rouge, LA. [embed]https://youtube.com/shorts/QZAyeR-FIfg?feature=share[/embed] I can tell you the mistakes I made when I was first starting out. Question: What is one mistake you commonly see brokers make when they're just starting out? Two big ones—when I was cold calling, I wasn't asking the right questions. I would ask questions, but they weren't good...

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Market Minute: September Office Report

What's going on in the Office Market, with Fabian Edwards and Jacob Loveland. [embed]https://youtube.com/shorts/FRWCYiCCZLY[/embed] Transcript: The office market—there's been a little bit of, maybe, a sigh of relief. Everyone kind of sees the writing on the wall that we are trending back toward a more typical market cycle. Rates are going to continue to come down, and hopefully, that will cause more deals...

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