Market Intelligence · LA / Orleans Parish

New Orleans, LA housing market

19 ZIP markets liveData updated August 2026Typical value$262K1-yr changeDown6.9%

The median home value in New Orleans, LA is $262K as of August 2026, down 6.9% year over year, according to Zillow ZHVI. Get your own home's value and a real cash offer in about two minutes, with sources shown and no obligation.

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New Orleans housing market, on video

Key takeaways

  • New Orleans home values have fallen about seven percent in a year, and buyers finally have room to breathe.
  • The typical New Orleans home is now worth about two hundred sixty-two thousand dollars, down nearly seven percent from a year ago.
  • The median listing takes about ninety two days to go under contract, roughly three months of waiting.
Updated August 2026All city reports →
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New Orleans home values have fallen about seven percent in a year, and buyers finally have room to breathe. If you are thinking about selling, that changes how you need to play this, so let us walk through it. The typical New Orleans home is now worth about two hundred sixty-two thousand dollars, down nearly seven percent from a year ago. And homes are sitting. The median listing takes about ninety two days to go under contract, roughly three months of waiting. Sellers mostly have not caught up with that reality yet. The median asking price is around three hundred twenty-two thousand dollars, well above what homes are actually valued at today. But here is the catch. Only about sixteen percent of listings have cut their price, which means most sellers are holding firm on numbers buyers are no longer paying. Meanwhile, roughly one thousand nine hundred homes sit on the market, and only about 350 new listings came on this month, so fresh competition is thin. So here is the takeaway. If you price at the market from day one, you stand out, because most of your competition is overpriced and going stale. Price high, and you join the ninety day club and cut later anyway. For a free estimate of what your home is worth today, visit Home Value Pros dot com.

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12-month value trend

-6.9% over 12 months

Typical home value in New Orleans over the last 12 months: $281K in Aug 2025 to $262K in Aug 2026 (-6.9%).

Aug 2025$281K

Aug 2026$262K

Median Zillow home value index across New Orleans's ZIP codes.

The coverage

New Orleans, by the numbers.

Typical home valueZillow ZHVI, August 2026
$262K
1-yr changeMedian across New Orleans ZIPs
-6.9%
ZIP markets live51 tracked in New Orleans
19
County
Orleans Parish

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Context

New Orleans's typical home is valued at $261,620 by Zillow as of August 2026, a 12-month move of -6.9%. Realtor.com's August 2026 listing data shows 1868 homes on the market, 352 newly listed, and a median asking price of $322,200. The median listing spends 92 days on market, and 16.2% of active listings have reduced their asking price. These figures describe a softening market in which realistic pricing is what moves a home.

The numbers

What is the housing market like in New Orleans, LA?

Typical home value

$262K

Down6.9%YoY

Median list price

$322K

Days on market

92

Homes for sale

1,868

Price cuts

16.2%

New listings

352

Sources · Zillow ZHVI (August 2026) / Realtor.com (August 2026)

Figures reflect New Orleans's ZIP codes with market data: values and listing medians take the median across ZIPs; inventory and new listings are summed.

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The markets

Which New Orleans ZIP codes have the highest home values?

Typical value is the Zillow home value index (ZHVI) for each ZIP, as of August 2026. 1-yr change compares it to the same ZIP a year earlier. We track 51 New Orleans ZIP codes in total; the remaining 32 publish as their data clears editorial QA.

Zillow ZHVI, August 2026

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