Specialties

Commercial/Retail Space

  • Retail Space Leasing
  • Site Selection
  • Business Brokerage
  • Investment and Feasibility Analysis

Industrial Real Estate

Latter & Blum's Industrial Real Estate Specialists represent corporations at the local, national and international levels, handling property located throughout the Gulf South. The Industrial division offers special expertise in handling properties located in the Mississippi River corridor.

  • Site Selection Sale and Leasing Consultation
  • Warehouse Tenant and Representation
  • Representation Developmental Analysis

The Industrial Real Estate Division focuses primarily on four major areas of industrial real estate:

  • Warehouse and distribution facilities
  • Marine and port-related properties
  • Site selection/acquisition for refinery, petrochemical coal and grain facilities
  • Petrochemical/oil field services

Office Space Leasing

Every Office Leasing associate has immediate access to current market data on office space vacancy rates, absorption histories, rental rate conditions, and tenant tracking. Combining superb informational resources with market savvy and a sensitivity to client priorities, Latter & Blum associates provide office space recommendations and alternatives that respond to specific client needs.

  • Exclusive Tenant Representation
  • Complete Tenant Relocation Services
  • Comprehensive Marketing Services
  • Location Selection
  • Market Analysis and Recommendations
  • Lease Negotiation
  • Client Consultation

Property Management

Latter & Blum's strong resource base and experienced personnel make the firm ideally suited to manage any property. The firm's current portfolio of approximately 12 million square feet under management includes residential multi-family and condominium complexes, shopping centers, office towers and industrial properties for a wide range of private and public concerns.

  • Experienced, professional management staff
  • Comprehensive, customizable reporting systems (including Yardi and Skyline)
  • In-house construction management capabilities
  • Asbestos Abatement Contractor Supervisor on staff

Robert W. Merrick Real Estate Appraisal/Counseling

Established in 1974 as Robert W. Merrick, Inc., Latter & Blum's Appraisal/Counseling Division provides real estate valuation and consultation services to government agencies, private and public corporations, major life insurance companies, law firms, and financial institutions.

Latter & Blum's extensive Gulf South regional experience gives clients a significant advantage: the firm's Appraisal/Counseling specialists have access to a database compiled from more than 3,000 valuation assignments, ranging from the simple to the most complex. This information is used to ensure clients of the timely response and expert analysis that are critical in property valuation.

  • Appraisal Reports
  • Real Estate Counseling
  • Highest and Best Use Feasibility Analysis|
  • Litigation Valuation and Expert Testimony
  • Market Surveys
  • Estate Valuation

Residential Real Estate Division

With 20 branch offices covering South and Central Louisiana and Mississippi, Latter & Blum is the area's residential real estate leader. The firm operates as Latter & Blum in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as C.J. Brown Realtors® in the Baton Rouge area and Noles-Frye in Alexandria and surrounding communities. Our elite corps of associates can handle a wide range of residential services including nationwide relocation. Our associates take pride in their company and career, and genuinely care about the communities in which they live and work.

  • Single Family Residential Sales and Leasing
  • Relocation Services
  • Third Party/Corporate REO Sales
  • Fine Homes Department

Multi-Family

Our specialists in multifamily real estate have a thorough knowledge of the industry and stand ready to help both buyers and sellers of multifamily properties to achieve their goals.

Services provided include valuation, market analysis, and brokerage. We maintain an extensive database of active participants in the multifamily market in our areas of service and are uniquely able to bring buyers and sellers together.

The NAI/Latter & Blum team has an in-depth knowledge of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Alexandria multifamily markets. Our brokers’ hands-on experience with multifamily properties gives them an insight into the market that will be invaluable whether you are acquiring or disposing of a single multifamily property or a group of properties.

Latter & Blum Property Management, the largest third-party property manager in Louisiana, offers our clients extensive experience at management and lease-up of multifamily properties, including both conventionally financed properties as well as tax credit properties.

Land

With owner Robert W. Merrick’s early experience as an appraiser, investor, broker and developer of vacant land, it is only natural that expertise in land transactions would become a key part of the NAI/Latter & Blum portfolio of services. Today, our brokerage team offers skilled assistance in a variety of land uses, including industrial site selection, retail site selection, multifamily site selection and residential development site selection.

With offices in two of the largest cities on the Mississippi River, it is also natural that we have developed considerable expertise in the brokerage of riverfront property for industrial and shipping uses along the Mississippi from Baton Rouge to the mouth of the river.