Fall for the House, But Get the Insurance Quote First

New Orleans real estate has a way of making people fall in love fast. You walk into a Creole cottage with original heart pine floors, or a raised center-hall on a street lined with live oaks, and it's easy to start picturing your furniture in the rooms before you've even asked about the roof. That i

New Orleans Elevation Certificate: What It Really Means for Your Flood Insurance and Your Sale

If you have started shopping for a home in New Orleans, or you are getting ready to list one, you have probably heard someone mention an elevation certificate before you fully understood what the term meant. That is normal. In most American housing markets, the document does not come up at all, beca

Lower Garden District, Where the Greek Revival Mansions Face a Public Park and Nobody Rushes to Explain the Difference From the Garden District

Two Names, One Confused Buyer   Every few weeks a client tells me they're looking at the Garden District, and when I ask a follow-up question or two, it turns out the listing they've been staring at is actually a few blocks south, in the Lower Garden District. It's an easy mix-up. The names are near

Why Your New Orleans Property Tax Bill Won't Look Like Your Old One (And That's Good News)

Somewhere between the inspection contingency and the closing disclosure, most relocating buyers pull up the estimated property tax line for their new New Orleans home and do a visible double take. If you're coming from Westchester County, Cook County, or King County, you've spent years budgeting aro