Through October of 2009, there have been a total of 8,805 homes sold in southwest Las Vegas. This area is roughly everything west of the I-15 freeway and south of Charleston Boulevard. The median sale was a 3-bedroom, 1743 square foot home with a selling price of $154,000.

Here's a quick look at price, volume and financing trends in the southwest Las Vegas real estate market.

To find out more about buying or selling real estate in southwest Las Vegas, just give me a call at (702) 339-9700, or email me at JohnNovak@kw.com.

(GLVAR deems information reliable but not guaranteed. Data is for MLS areas 501-505.)

Through October of 2009, there have been a total of 4,896 homes sold in Henderson Nevada. The median sale was a 3-bedroom, 1800 square foot home with a selling price of $185,000. The median selling price for a single-family home continued to slide, falling to $188,000.

Here's a quick look at price, volume and financing trends in the Henderson real estate market.

To find out more about buying or selling real estate in Henderson Nevada, just give me a call at (702) 339-9700, or email me at JohnNovak@kw.com.

(GLVAR deems information reliable but not guaranteed. Data is for MLS areas 601-606.)

It started with a simple Facebook status update:

Online friends responded with recommendations for We'll Be Here For The Rest of Our Lives by Paul Shaffer;, Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk; Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom; and 33 Million People In The Room by Juliette Powell.

A fraternity brother from UNLV mentioned Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. I headed to Borders and was browsing the biography section when I got this message from a fellow Keller Williams agent in Virginia:

Amy's kind and generous offer was impressive, and as I finished reading her text and shifted my attention back to the bookshelf, there it was -- Same Kind of Different As Me. I purchased that, along with Warren Buffett's bio The Snowball by Alice Schroeder.

Returning home, I thanked Amy. And I smiled at this small yet powerful connection made through social media. I hope that I can do the same for another one day.

Sun City Anthem is an age-restricted community of one-story homes, from 1,080 to over 4,000 square feet, built from 1999 to 2008. For more information, or to buy or sell a home in Sun City Anthem, contact John Novak at (702) 339-9700 or JohnNovak@kw.com.
 

 
Here are the details of the October, 2009 sales for homes in Sun City Anthem:

(GLVAR deems information reliable but not guaranteed. Properties listed and sold by various MLS participants. Sale Price adjusted for any seller contributions. DOM = Days on Market)

Listed below are the current inventory and October, 2009 statistics for home sales in the North Las Vegas Nevada real estate market. If you have any questions or need more information about real estate in North Las Vegas call me at (702) 339-9700 or email me at JohnNovak@kw.com. I'm looking forward to earning your business!

Total Homes Available:

1,711  (as of November 5, 2009) 

• Single-Family:  1,619  (2.1 month supply*)
• Condo:  49  (2.7 month supply)
• Townhouse:  43  (1.4 month supply)

Total Contingent and Pending Sales:

2,904  (as of November 5, 2009)

• Single-Family:  2,679
• Condo:  126
• Townhouse:  99

October, 2009 Sales:

Single-Family:  787  (Price range: $22,500 - $765,000) Condo:  18  (Price range: $10,000 - $180,000) Townhouse:  31  (Price range: $55,000 - $156,890)

Sales per month               May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Single Family 729 832 884 740 736 787 Condominium 28 28 33 19 24 18 Townhouse 26 27 29 23 26 31

Median Selling Price:

Single-Family:  $125,000 Condo:  $54,251 Townhouse:  $75,100

Median price by month               May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Single Family $135,000 $127,605 $125,000 $126,000 $130,000 $125,000 Condominium $57,274 $54,950 $53,000 $64,000 $57,750 $54,251 Townhouse $89,000 $90,000 $93,000 $75,000 $85,150 $75,100

Average Days on Market:

• Single-Family:  52
• Condo:  35
• Townhouse:  29

GLVAR deems information reliable but not guaranteed. Information is for MLS areas 101-103.
* - Supply = Homes Available/September Sales

Previous reports:

     North Las Vegas Real Estate - September, 2009 Market Statistics
     North Las Vegas Real Estate - August, 2009 Market Statistics
     North Las Vegas Real Estate - July, 2009 Market Statistics


See also:
       
     North Las Vegas, Nevada - Demographics
     North Las Vegas, Nevada - Fast Facts

Sales activity in the Henderson Nevada real estate market for October, 2009 and current Henderson real estate inventory is summarized below. If you have any questions or need more information about real estate in Henderson Nevada call me at (702) 339-9700 or email me at JohnNovak@kw.com. I'm looking forward to earning your business!

Total Homes Available:

1,744  (as of November 5, 2009) 

• Single-Family:  1,454  (3.3 month supply*)
• Condo:  170  (2.5 month supply)
• Townhouse:  120  (2.0 month supply)

Total Contingent and Pending Sales:

1,955  (as of November 5, 2009)

• Single-Family:  1,564
• Condo:  208
• Townhouse:  183

 October, 2009 Sales:

Single-Family:  447  (Price range: $27,000 - $1,730,000) Condo:  67  (Price range: $21,000 - $200,000) Townhouse:  61  (Price range: $32,500 - $470,000)

Sales per month               May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Single Family 413 499 478 404 422 447 Condominium 47 79 73 69 63 67 Townhouse 40 49 57 37 52 61

Median Selling Price:

Single-Family:  $188,000 Condo:  $74,500 Townhouse:  $104,000

Median price by month               May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Single Family $200,000 $200,000 $195,000 $205,000 $197,326 $188,000 Condominium $85,000 $80,000 $70,000 $75,000 $74,000 $74,500 Townhouse $110,625 $108,000 $109,000 $98,000 $104,000 $104,000

Average Days on Market:

• Single-Family:  55
• Condo:  69
• Townhouse:  51

GLVAR deems information reliable but not guaranteed. Information is for MLS areas 601-606.
* - Supply = Homes Available/October Sales

Neighborhood reports - 3rd quarter, 2009:

Previous reports:
  
     Henderson Nevada Real Estate - September, 2009 Market Statistics
     Henderson Nevada Real Estate - August, 2009 Market Statistics     
     Henderson Nevada Real Estate - July, 2009 Market Statistics

         
See also:
     
     Henderson Nevada - Demographics
     Henderson Nevada - Fast Facts

Sales activity in the Las Vegas real estate market for October, 2009 and current Las Vegas real estate inventory is summarized below. If you have any questions or need more information about real estate in Las Vegas, call me at (702) 339-9700 or email me at JohnNovak@kw.com. I'm looking forward to earning your business!

Total Homes Available:

6,653  (as of November 5, 2009) 

• Single-Family:  5,073  (2.3 month supply*)
• Condo:  1,128  (2.4 month supply)
• Townhouse:  452  (2.4 month supply)

Total Contingent and Pending Sales:

9,685  (as of November 5, 2009)

• Single-Family:  7,535
• Condo:  1,602
• Townhouse:  548

October, 2009 Sales:

Single-Family:  2,224  (Price range: $12,000 - $5,999,900) Condo:  478  (Price range: $14,700 - $1,999,000) Townhouse:  191  (Price range: $15,000 - $502,995)

Sales per month               May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Single Family 2037 2348 2281 2012 2089 2224 Condominium 431 522 471 451 494 478 Townhouse 159 197 188 195 183 191

Median Selling Price:

Single-Family:  $133,950 Condo:  $62,750 Townhouse:  $75,000

Median price by month               May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Single Family $134,000 $132,000 $132,000 $130,000 $130,000 $133,950 Condominium $60,750 $62,500 $62,000 $64,000 $60,000 $62,750 Townhouse $70,000 $70,000 $72,500 $65,000 $66,000 $75,000

Average Days on Market:

• Single-Family:  50
• Condo:  52
• Townhouse:  54

GLVAR deems information reliable but not guaranteed. Information is for MLS areas 201-505.
* - Supply = Homes Available/October Sales

Previous reports:

     Las Vegas Real Estate - September, 2009 Market Statistics
     Las Vegas Real Estate - August, 2009 Market Statistics
     Las Vegas Real Estate - July, 2009 Market Statistics

With recent announcements that both Google and Bing will soon be indexing tweets, many are taking a second look at Twitter and trying to understand this popular micro-blogging platform. But where to begin?

ProBlogger Darren Rowse has put together a collection of 13 Twitter Tips and Tutorials for Beginners to help you quickly get up to speed (or up to tweet!).

Watch an explanation of "Twitter in Plain English", learn how to write 140-character microblogs, get advice on how to build your followers (my Twitter ID is LVRealEstate), and more at TwiTip.

Detractors of Twitter frequently ask "who cares what I'm doing right now?" Apparently Google and Bing care, as both major search engines are moving forward with plans to index tweets.

Bing is also going to index Facebook status updates, while Google recently launched Social Search, a Google Labs experiment "that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle."

Will this change how you use Facebook and Twitter? Will you optimize your status updates and tweets with keywords, or keep them more spontaneous?

For more on this big social media issue, see these posts:

Real-Time Search: Google and Bing Rivalry Intensifies on Facebook and Twitter at PCWorld.com.

Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend's New York blog! at Google Blog

HUGE: Microsoft Inks Deal With Twitter and Facebook to Put Status Updates in Bing at Mashable

English was never one of my favorite subjects in school. I've always felt that being gramatically correct was nice, but not absolutely necessary. People communicate just fine in informal, conversational ways -- so why can't we write like that?

Blogging is often referred to as an online conversation. Bloggers are told to find their voice, to speak (write) naturally. So don't worry about whether or not your high school English teacher approves of your latest post; they're probably not your target audience anyway!

Want to have a little fun and learn some tips for better blog writing? Read "7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned In School" by Jonathan Morrow at Copyblogger. You'll find out that "good writing doesn't have to be educated or well supported or even grammatically correct. It does have to be interesting enough that other people want to read it."