Mary's Musings

For several months the Las Vegas real estate market has been at a virtual crawl.  There are currently 25,000+ single-family residences for sale, 38,000+ listings if you want to count commercial and land and everything in between.  I have several listings, fairly priced (for a stabilized and somet...

I received this from my lender in this morning's e-mail and thought that I would share it with everyone.  I'm a 'stats' person and and find things like this interesting.  This information is directly from NAR and is part of their 2007 NAR Membership Profile   With more than 1.3 million members, ...

Centrally located in the eastern part of Las Vegas is an oasis in the desert!  Set amid palm trees and green grass is the townhouse community of Braewood Heritage Square.  Off of Desert Inn and Pecos, Braewood Heritage Square has easy access to almost anywhere in Las Vegas...with the I-15 and I-9...

                         Indian Wells...in north west Las Vegas...with easy access to the Summerlin Parkway, the 215 Beltway, I-95 and I-15 making your trip to anywhere in the LV valley easy.  A gorgeous swimming pool with a waterfall, a clubhouse with an exercise room, barbecue grills, palm tree...

Located in north west Las Vegas and bordering Summerlin is beautiful Angel Point.  Easy living condominium living with 2 swimming pools/spas.  These units sport up or downstairs, 1016 or 1188 square feet, 2 master bedrooms, the larger unit is perfect for a room-mate set up if desired, with the be...

I just entered this picture in The Second Codger Carnival of Curb Appeal!  and thought I would share it via a blog so everyone who does not normally visit their blog would see it.  It was taken in AUGUST of 2004.  If you've ever been in Vegas in AUGUST you know it's between 110 and 120 degrees!  ...

Today, June 25, 2007, is hump day!  It comes every year at this exact time...6 more months until Christmas!  Are you ready?  My husband works for Dillards Dept. Store...according to him the holiday stock starts arriving the first of August...that's only 4-5 weeks away!  Are you excited yet?  It's...

  Being built just off of Desert Inn and Las Vegas Blvd. at the north end of the Strip is Boyd Gaming's Echelon, a huge mega resort.  The location is on the property (87 acres) that was previously housed by the Stardust and the Budget Suites hotel (which sat directly behind the Stardust).   In ad...

Las Vegas is working on a new slogan...the current one is "What happens is Vegas stays in Vegas" and came to being because of an advertising campaign.  I guess is getting a little old or stale or overused, or something.  I think whoever came up with that slogan was brilliant and probably made min...

The Real Property Transfer Tax is a tax collected when a home is sold in the state of Nevada. The County Recorder collects it at the time of recording and is part of the seller's closing costs. In Clark County NV (Las Vegas, Henderson, etc) the rate is $5.10 per $1000 of value.  This is approxima...