NEW ORLEANS – The Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans (PRC) will host The Great Neighborhood SELLabration, an annual homebuyer fair that promotes homeownership in New Orleans neighborhoods by providing prospective homebuyers with the tools they need to find, purchase and renovate a home, on Saturday, September 12, 2015, at Lake Area High School, 6026 Paris Ave., from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The agenda includes:
• 9:30 a.m. – New Orleans Real Estate Market Snapshot
Streetscapes & Architecture of New Orleans
• 11:00 a.m. – 203K Financing
How to buy at Auction
• 12:30 p.m. – Expand to Home Ownership Grant Program
Rehabilitation Tax Credits
Unlike other homebuyer fairs, the Great Neighborhood SELLabration focuses on the neighborhoods that make New Orleans unique. Homebuyers will have the opportunity to interact with housing professionals and neighborhood residents from across the city, which will empower them to make the most fully informed decisions possible. Each event attendee will receive a free Homebuying Handbook with resources on buying and renovating in New Orleans.
Participating neighborhoods include:
• 7th Ward
• Algiers Riverview
• Bywater
• Carrollton Area
• Lower Garden District
• Desaix Area
• Edgewood Park
• Fairgrounds Triangle
• Faubourg Lafayette
• Faubourg St. Roch
• Gentilly Terrace
• Hollygrove- Dixon
• Northwest Carrollton
• Oak Park
• Old Algiers
• Pontchartrain Park
Exhibitors include: Audubon Title Insurance Agency, LLC; Gardner Realtors; Gulf Coast Bank and Trust; Iberia Bank; The Witry Collective; Emery & James, LTD. Gohres Insurance; Energy Smart; Eustis Mortgage Corporation; Green Coast Realty; Latter & Blum, Inc. Realtors; Movement Mortgage, New Orleans Metropolitan Association of REALTORS; Preservation Title; Realty Executives SELA; Quillen Remodeling, Sam Staub Enterprises, Whitney Bank, Properties for Sale Across the City; LSU AgCenter / LaHouse Mobile Project; Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance; Neighborhood Housing Services; Sankofa CDC; and Ask – An – Architect (by appointment only).
Supporters include: Custom House New Orleans; Ricca’s Architectural Sales; Strip Ease; Audubon Home Inspections, Gulf Enterprises, Inc.; Helm Paint & Decorating; Marty Cavendish, realtor; Cindy Schupp, realtor; Sofas & Chairs, Inc.; The Bank; Ariana Tipper, Keller Williams Realty; Historic New Orleans Realtors; Maria A. Zuniga-Lott, realtor; Margarete Wabnig, realtor; Anne & James Morse; Patty Willhite, realtor; Raphael Dental Office; Bart Gillis, realtor; Denise Chapoton Graphic Design.
There will be refreshments for sale from Bratz Y’all, and Petite Rouge Café Camionette, and there will be free Plum Street Snoballs courtesy of Gardner Realtors.
Great Neighborhood SELLabration is FREE and open to the public, and is supported in part by Neighborhoods Partnership Network.
