Lacey M. Conway
President/Principal Broker, Latter & Blum, Inc.
A New Orleans icon since 1916, Latter and Blum is a full-service real estate brokerage operating in greater New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Alexandria, Lake Charles, Houston and southern Mississippi. Over 3,000 agents are part of the Latter and Blum family. The company’s first sale was a home at 938 Esplanade that sold for $8,400 in 1916. At the end of 2017, Latter and Blum’s total sales volume reached $4.5 billion. The company is currently ranked as the 34th largest real estate broker in the United States.
What are you most excited about in the coming year? On a personal note, I am excited to join the growing list of women in executive leadership in New Orleans. I am surrounded by a dynamic leadership team that is challenged with taking a 100-plus-year-old company into the next 100 years.
What is the biggest challenge facing your industry today? Similar to other traditional real estate brokerages in the country, one of the biggest challenges we face is staying on pace with technology and remaining relevant to our clients in the process of buying and selling homes. Declining affordability and decreasing disparity in the marketplace has been, and continues to be, the biggest challenge for the residential real estate industry today.
