BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The 2014 outlook for the Baton Rouge real estate market is largely positive, thanks to the thousands of new jobs that are projected to come to the area and an improving national economy.

Tom Cook, an appraiser with Cook, Moore & Associates, tells The Advocate (http://bit.ly/1qER39L ) the residential market is on fire.

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