Real Estate

Prior to hurricane Katrina, St. Bernard Parish, with close in access to the Central Business District of New Orleans (only five miles form the Orleans Parish line at Arabi), low crime rates and and one the areas best performing public school systems, offered the best home values in the New Orleans metro region.  Of Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Charles and Plaquemines Parish offered the most cost effective housing values in the region according to the 2000 census. Many residents are trying to return and rebuild held up by the slow pace of recovery and mitigating factors such as the rebuilding of the levee system and the lingering effects of the Murphy Oil spill. Property values for damaged property's are approximately twenty-five percent of pre-storm values and most remain unoccupied.  (Editor's note - above is a before and after picture of my family's home on Marietta St. in Chalmette which was "lucky enough" to only have four feet of water.)

Residential Real Estate For Sale in St. Bernard Parish from Realtor.com

Recent Real Estate Transfers from the Times Picayune