A Gulf Coast guide written by people who actually live here
Living Coastal covers the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coasts. We publish city guides, cost and insurance tools, and market numbers pulled from real closed sales. Brad Perniciaro founded the site and writes most of it. Lacey Perniciaro, a REALTOR® licensed in both states, reviews what touches real estate.
Six things this site is for
All of it is written for someone deciding whether the coast works for them, or already living here and wanting the details right.
City guides
Biloxi, Gulfport, Ocean Springs, Bay St. Louis, Long Beach and Diamondhead. What a town is like to live in, without the brochure language.
Tools we built
A flood insurance estimator, a house payment calculator that counts wind and flood, and a cost of living comparison.
Market numbers
Closed sales from MLS United, grouped by city and price band, with the date range printed on every figure.
What is happening now
Millage votes, storm seasons, projects breaking ground. Published the week it matters, with the number that makes it real.
Visitor planning
Where to eat, what is worth the drive, and which weekend is the busy one. Written by locals who go to these places.
Property search
Every listing on the coast, searchable, straight from the MLS feed rather than a scraped copy of it.
Two people, and that is the whole staff
There is no content team. That is deliberate, and it is why every page here has a name on it.
Brad Perniciaro
Lifelong Gulf Coast resident. He owns property here, pulls the sales data apart himself, and builds the tools on this site. He holds no real estate license, and nothing here is him offering real estate services.
Lacey Perniciaro
Coastal Realty Group in Mississippi and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Preferred, REALTORS® in Louisiana. She reviews the real estate content, and she is who you reach when you want to buy or sell something.
We wrote the rules down
Anyone can say their content is careful. Ours is checked against a written standard, and you can go read it.
Sources on the claim
Every fact links to the source that supports it, at the sentence it supports, not buried in a list at the bottom.
A licensed review
Real estate content is read by Lacey before it publishes, and the piece says so when she has read it.
Corrections in the open
When we get something wrong we fix it and note the correction on the page, with the date it changed.
What Living Coastal is not
Have a question about the coast?
Ask about a town, a flood zone, a tax bill or a house you have your eye on. It reaches a real person, usually the same day.