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The City Council budget hearings have at times resembled a soup line with needy department heads, hats in hand, pleading for alms. The district attorney and Criminal District Court judges all took...
View ArticleSluggish market has agents making deals for high-end West Bank listings
Confronting a dormant market for upper-end real estate on the West Bank, gated community English Turn is offering lots for just less than $50,000. “We know the market like everybody else and are...
View ArticleLatter & Blum buys Alexandria market leader
Latter & Blum Realtors is expanding to the Central Louisiana. The acquisition of Noles-Frye Realty of Alexandria adds to the presence it already has in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the Mississippi...
View Article‘Paralysis’ will keep residential sales tepid
The numbers show New Orleans area residential real estate companies weathered the recession relatively well in 2009. Business was down, with more stringent mortgage guidelines also a factor, but the...
View ArticleAssessor-elect considers retaining Mauberret, Mire
Newly elected citywide assessor Erroll Williams raised eyebrows at a recent Bureau of Governmental Research meeting when he launched into an unprompted defense of 2nd District Assessor Claude...
View ArticleSterbcow out as Latter & Blum president
Arthur Sterbcow is out as the president of Latter & Blum Realtors Inc., one of the state’s largest residential real estate businesses. CityBusiness confirmed this afternoon that the company ended...
View ArticleSterbcow considers next step after being fired
A day after being fired as president of Latter & Blum, Arthur Sterbcow says he will return to the real estate industry — just not in the immediate future. Sterbcow, who was let go Tuesday after...
View ArticleLatter & Blum lures new leader from competitor
The leadership shuffle continues among the region’s top residential real estate firms. A little more than a month after firing its longtime president, Latter & Blum has hired the general manager of...
View ArticlePrudential ‘in no hurry’ to replace GM
After losing its general manager to competitor Latter & Blum, Prudential Gardner Realtors has no immediate plans to fill the position. That’s according to Glenn Gardner, Prudential’s president of...
View ArticleNew Orleans real estate professionals remain upbeat
Real estate experts remained mostly optimistic about the New Orleans metro area real estate market at the University of New Orleans’ Economic Outlook & Real Estate Forecast Seminar, held today at...
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