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Baton Rouge, Louisiana · East Baton Rouge Parish · 70810
Santa Maria is a master-planned community in the most southeastern part of East Baton Rouge Parish, approached from Highland Road down Old Perkins Road. Roughly 400 acres including the golf course it surrounds. Two things sellers routinely get wrong: the golf course is public and operated by BREC, not a private club, and there are two different Santa Maria associations — the main subdivision's POA and a separate association for The Highlands.
Reviewed by Nicole Gaudet, REALTOR®
Updated October 3, 2026 · We list across East Baton Rouge and Ascension
Santa Maria
A master-planned community of roughly 400 acres in the most southeastern part of East Baton Rouge Parish, wrapped around a public golf course, now inside the City of St. George.
Santa Maria Golf Course is operated by BREC, the parish recreation commission — 18 holes, 6,969 yards, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., open to the public. That is a genuine amenity and it is also a different thing from a private club. Describe it accurately; a buyer who discovers the difference after the fact feels misled.
The main subdivision is governed by the Santa Maria Property Owners Association. The Highlands has its own association, whose restrictions were filed in November 2003 and which has been through litigation over developer-held memberships. Confirm in writing which one your lot falls under before you order resale documents.
Restrictions were recorded filing by filing between 1992 and 2005 — first filing 1992, second 1995, third 1997 and 1999, fourth 1997 and 1998, fifth, and seventh in 2003 amended 2005. Different filings, different documents. The POA publishes the index; pull the one that matches your lot.
The POA requires a Home Improvement Request and architectural committee approval before exterior changes, structures, pools, paint, windows or landscaping. Work done without it is a title-and-negotiation problem later. If you are improving to sell, start with the form.
Try the net sheet calculator with your own numbers for your Santa Maria home.
On the record
Everything in this table is traceable to a source listed underneath it. Where a figure is not published anywhere public, we leave the row out rather than guess.
| Location | Most southeastern East Baton Rouge Parish, approached from Highland Road down Old Perkins Road |
|---|---|
| Municipality | City of St. George — the POA publishes City of St. George code enforcement contacts |
| Size | Approximately 400 acres including the golf course |
| Golf | Santa Maria Golf Course — public, operated by BREC. 18 holes, 6,969 yards, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. |
| Amenities | More than 15 lakes, nature and jogging trails, a park, tennis courts, a chapel in the woods, and a boat launch on a navigable creek |
| Associations | Santa Maria Property Owners Association (main subdivision) and a separate Santa Maria Homeowners Association for The Highlands |
| Recorded filings | Filings 1–5 and 7, recorded 1992–2005, each with its own restrictions |
| Architectural control | Committee approval required before exterior changes, structures, pools, paint, windows or landscaping |
| Traffic | 25 mph posted; enforcement by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office |
| Dues | Not published publicly — the POA budget is behind member login. Ask the association |
Sources for this page
Every fact in the table above is linked to a public source, and those links are printed here. Anything we could not source that way is not on the page at all, including dues figures no association publishes. Details published by an association, a developer or a builder can change without notice, and nothing here is a substitute for the covenants, the association's own documents or the act of sale. If a figure matters to your decision, ask us and we will get it in writing from the source.
The numbers
Most subdivision pages you will find publish a median sale price for the neighborhood. In a subdivision that turns over a handful of homes a year, that number is built on so few sales that one unusual closing swings it by tens of thousands. Published as a fact, it is misleading. We are not going to do that.
What is real is the parish-level data below, and the actual closed sales inside Santa Maria — which we will pull from the MLS and walk you through, address by address, rather than average into a number that fits on a web page.
| Area | Median sale price | vs. last year | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baton Rouge (city) | $269,000 | +5.5% | 30 | 97.2% |
| East Baton Rouge Parish | $275,000 | +4.2% | 32 | 97.4% |
| Gonzales | $290,428 | −3.2% | 26 | 98.6% |
| Prairieville | $337,750 | −4.3% | 28 | 98.8% |
Source: ROAM MLS closed residential sales, July 1 – September 30, 2026, compared with the same period of 2025. Based on information from the ROAM MLS for the period 07/01/2026 through 09/30/2026. Updated monthly.
Property tax
It is not automatic, and it does not come with the house when you buy.
Homes are assessed at 10% of market value, and homestead removes the first $7,500 of assessed value from parish taxes on your primary residence. In East Baton Rouge that is typically worth about $750 to $800 a year.
In East Baton Rouge you file in person, with the parish assessor, and you must own and live in the home by December 31. It is not automatic: the buyer of your home files their own, and if you are buying next, you file again at the new address. Your share of the year's taxes is prorated through the closing date and credited to the buyer at the act of sale.
East Baton Rouge Parish Assessor · general information →
EBR tax bills are mailed in late November and are due December 31. The assessment freeze and the disabled-veterans exemption are both on the East Baton Rouge Parish page.
Gather before you list
Flood
Louisiana's property disclosure document makes you state the flood zone and where you got it, whether the land or any structure has ever flooded, whether you carry flood insurance, whether you have an elevation certificate, and whether you or a previous owner made an NFIP or private flood claim — with the amounts.
The City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish publish flood information for the parish, and FEMA's Flood Map Service Center is the source the state disclosure form itself points sellers at. What the zones mean, whether insurance is required, and whether you can hand your policy to the buyer: our Louisiana flood zone and insurance guide.
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Questions
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in East Baton Rouge Parish, ZIP 70810. A master-planned community of roughly 400 acres in the most southeastern part of East Baton Rouge Parish, wrapped around a public golf course, now inside the City of St. George.
Filings 1 through 5 and filing 7 were recorded between 1992 and 2005, and each one carries its own restrictions. The Highlands sits under a different association again. Which filing your lot falls in changes what a buyer is actually buying, so it changes which closed sales are honestly comparable to yours.
So we will not put a median on this page. A subdivision that sells a handful of homes a year does not produce a stable one — a single unusual sale moves it by tens of thousands, and publishing that as a fact would mislead you about your own house. Parish-level medians are stable enough to publish; street-level ones are not. The honest number comes from the closed sales that are genuinely comparable to yours, adjusted for floor plan, condition and lot, and we will pull them and show you the work. Ask for the number and you will usually have it within one business day.
No. Santa Maria Golf Course is public and operated by BREC — 18 holes, 6,969 yards, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. That is unusual for a neighborhood of this kind and it is often described wrongly in listings. Living in Santa Maria does not buy you a private course, and not living there does not keep you off this one.
There are two. The Santa Maria Property Owners Association covers the main subdivision, and a separate Santa Maria Homeowners Association covers The Highlands. Neither publishes a dues figure — the POA budget sits behind a member login — so ask the association that actually covers your lot and get the number in writing. The subdivision also sits inside the City of St. George, and the POA publishes City of St. George code enforcement contacts.
Approximately 400 acres including the golf course, in the most southeastern part of East Baton Rouge Parish, approached from Highland Road down Old Perkins Road. More than 15 lakes, nature and jogging trails, a park, tennis courts, a chapel in the woods, and a boat launch on a navigable creek. Posted speed is 25 mph, enforced by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.
The parish baseline: homes took a median 30 days on market in Baton Rouge and 32 across East Baton Rouge Parish over July through September 2026 (ROAM MLS), then 30 to 45 days to the act of sale.
The architectural committee has to approve exterior work before it happens — paint, windows, pools, structures, landscaping. A seller who does pre-list work without that approval can spend weeks unwinding it, which is time the parish figure does not predict. When you list moves it too.
Three things are the same for every seller in East Baton Rouge Parish, so they live on their own pages rather than being repeated on each subdivision page: what a sale actually costs you on the seller net sheet; the homestead exemption, how it is filed and why it does not transfer to your buyer, in the East Baton Rouge Parish guide; and when to list.
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Not an estimate off a website. The closed sales inside Santa Maria, and what they mean for your house.
Parish market figures are ROAM MLS medians for July through September 2026 and are not a valuation of your home. Tax and flood information is general, sourced to the parish and to FEMA, and is not legal, tax or insurance advice. This page is not affiliated with, endorsed by or published on behalf of any homeowners association, club, developer or builder named on it.
