southern nevada: Home buyers beware, walkable neighborhoods command higher prices - 08/24/09 06:11 PM
Real estate, they say, is all about location, location, location, and that is in a certain way backed up by a recent study commissioned by CEOs for Cities. It's a nationwide cross-sector group of urban movers and shakers from academic, business, civic and philanthropic fields committed to building and sustaining the … (10 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas resale real estate numbers remain steady in July - 08/11/09 01:21 PM
The housing market in Southern Nevada had several strong months late in the spring and going into the summer, largely because of low mortgage rates and increasingly affordable prices. Those two conditions have that something extra to attract buyers, in this day and age mostly first-timers and investors, to make a … (6 comments)
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southern nevada: Creative mortgage lending to help Palms Place - 06/13/09 07:09 PM
Luxury high-rise condos and condo-hotels were all the rage in Las Vegas only a few short years ago. Developers couldn't put them up fast enough on the Strip and elsewhere in town to satisfy all the demand. And of course there was all sorts of mortgage money available to grab a … (6 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas home builders going green - 01/23/08 11:33 PM
Southern Nevada Home Builders Association, or SNHBA, is becoming very active in embracing the green housing concept. It has combined efforts with the Green Building Initiative to draw up guidelines for the Southern Nevada Green Building Partnership, an entity that sets standards for water management, energy use and the employment of … (9 comments)
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southern nevada: Lake Las Vegas project has a new owner - 01/12/08 01:09 PM
Transcontinental Corp. began developing the 3,592-acre Lake Las Vegas site near Henderson in 1990 and was building upscale houses, condominiums and townhouses along the slopes of the man-made lake. Besides homes, the project also includes three luxury resorts, the MonteLago Casino and an Italian-themed village.
The soft real estate market in … (6 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas housing crawls along - 12/23/07 09:41 PM
The November residential real estate indicators for Southern Nevada were recently published by Home Builders Research and SalesTraq, two local industry research shops. In general the numbers are down, an altogether familiar pattern for the past several months.
In the new home category sales are off by 47.5% from last year and … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: Vegas housing market about to pick up? - 12/14/07 11:47 PM
A lot of attention has lately been directed toward the mortgage industry where lenders continue to struggle with rising foreclosures and try to keep their balance sheets somewhat respectable. Washington also announced an interest rate freeze plan that on the outset received proper headlines, but on closer scrutiny it appears to … (10 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas arena race is on - 12/12/07 05:53 PM
Sin City is working diligently to bring a professional sports franchise to Southern Nevada. Whether it can support one at this stage is a different matter. The other thing is that the city presently lacks a modern arena to house such a team. Thomas & Mack on UNLV campus seems to … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas real estate sold by auction houses - 12/05/07 01:06 PM
As the Southern Nevada real estate market struggles with a high inventory of unsold homes, sellers are trying to find ways to successfully move their properties. They list them with Realtors and the MLS, some decide to proceed on their own as FSBOs and advertise in the newspaper and the Internet, they distribute … (4 comments)
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southern nevada: Colliers International opens Las Vegas office - 11/30/07 06:41 PM
Many might wonder if now is the best time to open another residential real estate office here when the market is clearly having its problems. There is an abundant oversupply of houses, condominiums and townhouses for sale, many of which are vacant, and they are moving slowly despite lower prices. But … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas Marathon on Sunday - 11/28/07 06:01 PM
Vegas is already on the map of those who are looking for world-class entertainment, gaming and late night action. Over the years it has also sought to mix those elements with sports, which nowadays is becoming ever more multi-function entertainment and less pure athletics.
Boxing has been and still is a … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: New single-family houses again affordable in Las Vegas - 11/19/07 08:20 PM
It was only a few years ago when affordable housing was one of the great draws in Southern Nevada. Despite the city growing at a breath-taking pace supply and demand stayed in sync and kept real estate prices relatively stable. And then suddenly the secret was out of the bag, sometime in … (12 comments)
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southern nevada: Five Diamond Awards for Las Vegas resorts - 11/13/07 10:12 PM
The Southern Nevada metropolis is rapidly moving toward the very top in the amount of awards one city manages to garner. The prestigious AAA travel club's rating program completely passed over Sin City as recently as eight years ago, but since then things have drastically changed for the better.
The 2008 list was just … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: Vegas land prices heading south - 10/27/07 10:01 PM
What will happen when the residential real estate market is overbuilt, mortgage money is getting tighter and construction costs are heading up? All these aspects combined will typically bring you a soft market that will dampen demand for vacant land and will as a result put downward pressure on prices. That is … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas trail system on the drawing board - 10/22/07 11:02 PM
I know there are quite a few trails around the valley and in the surrounding mountains because I've used some of them. Summerlin has several miles of them, Mount Charleston is famous for a few tough ones, Red Rock Canyon offers really nice and scenic routes, as does the Lake Mead … (0 comments)
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southern nevada: Vegas luxury real estate an exception - 10/19/07 05:31 PM
Southern Nevada housing market is nowadays on a wild ride, setting all sorts of dubious records. Here are a couple of them for your consideration. The MLS has more inventory than you care to admit and the current foreclosure rate here is beyond the pale. The thing is these are the kinds … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas land shortage looming - 10/10/07 04:06 PM
There is plenty of raw land still around in Southern Nevada, the desert kind. The land belongs to the Federal Government, though, and therefore is out of reach of developers. For some reason the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, is very slow in releasing much of it for the usual … (8 comments)
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southern nevada: Southern Nevada may get a California solar power plant - 10/09/07 05:39 PM
That's right. It's a real possibility that a California power company will end up building a plant in Southern Nevada and ship the electricity over the state line mainly to supply the Los Angeles area.
California has initiated a green power energy policy that dictates the state's utilities must generate 20% … (2 comments)
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southern nevada: Stated income mortgage issue still brewing in Nevada - 10/02/07 02:10 PM
The updated consumer protection law that was put in the books earlier in the year is effective as of today. One of its stipulations is that a stated income mortgage loan can be a crime in the state, as interpreted by some legal experts. And that has caused thick smoke to come … (65 comments)
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southern nevada: Las Vegas economy diversifies - 09/28/07 04:51 PM
The general perception out there is that Sin City is a one-industry town. It's easy to see why when all you see from here are pictures and video footage of the Strip at night and those huge hotels and gambling halls and Cirque du Soleil shows. The Las Vegas Convention & … (0 comments)
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