LaFeO 3 , a nontoxic and thermally stable compound, when prepared of small crystallites offers tailored magnetic and magnetoelectric properties at room temperature. In this article, we describe synthesis of a phase pure LaFeO 3 of nanocrystallites with a bonded carbon surface layer from a liquid precursor at moderate temperature in air. The results demonstrate that, upon sonication and microwave heating, the metal ions La 3+ and Fe 3+ in an inorganic-organic precursor cluster and grow into LaFeO 3 crystallites in a specific shape of nanoplates, typically 40-150 nm in width and 15-25 nm in thickness, at moderate temperature ∼700 C in ambient air. The stable phase LaFeO 3 stands in an orthorhombic crystal structure (Pnma space group), on sintering to obtain useful ferroelectric properties in a dense pellet. At room temperature, a sintered pellet (at 950 C for 4 h) measures a wide ferroelectric hysteresis loop, showing a polarization of 2.05 C/cm 2 , remnant polarization of 0.78 C/cm 2 , and coercivity 7.65 kV/cm for an applied electric field up to 18 kV/cm (at 500 Hz). These values are compatible to those known in important granular multiferroics such as BiFeO 3 and composites.