New figures show a strong rebound in home sales in Lafayette Parish in September and October of this year compared to the same time period in 2008.
According to data submitted by Realtors in Lafayette, 399 units were sold in September and October of this year compared to just 299 in the September/October 2008 period — a 33 percent increase. The average home price, however, was down 4.5 percent from last year: $192,561 (2009) versus $201,733 (2008). Total homes sales in the period this year were $76,832,148 compared to $60,318,200 in 2008. Houses also spent slightly less time on the market: 80 days this year versus 88 last year.
While the numbers showed improvement, one Lafayette real estate executive says it’s premature to think the Lafayette market has entirely rebounded. “Last year the end of the year really dropped off after September on,” says Steven Hebert, chief operating officer of Coldwell Banker Pelican Real Estate. “It’s not really that it’s so much better this year, it’s just that it was really, really bad last quarter [of 2008], so we’re seeing some sign of recovery.”
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
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This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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