Mary Kennedy's Blog from Las Vegas

Dear Reader, You may remember that the last blog I posted was after I thought I had a client scheduled for October 24, but it was really supposed to be the 31st and I wondered if this ever happened to you. There must have been something in my subject line to trigger opening because that e-mail ha...

I scheduled myself to meet a client at the office this morning at 10:00 AM. So I was up early to: Pull the updated property list of properties we were going to look at. Arrange the properties in showing order to be most efficient with our time. Have breakfast with John, my husband. So its 9:34 AM...

"Innovation- The Heart of the Knowledge Economy- Is Fundamentally Social." - Malcolm Gladwell. This quote you see above seems fitting as we announce some changes we are making in our communications with our loyal readers and the people that follow us and that we follow on our Social Networks. In ...

Dear Reader, I'm just going to be about GOOD NEWS today! As I finalize this letter its 70`F degrees here in Las Vegas. The high will be 104`F today. No wind and sunny. A nearly perfect day! In a previous newsletter, I wrote that some home prices are beginning to increase here in the Las Vegas Val...

Is the Poster Child for the Busted Housing Market coming Back to Life? (Let's look at the Big Picture!) I'm passing along 2 articles today. The first one was published in the Las Vegas Review Journal last week by Lew Sichelman. The Housing Scene: Average Home Prices Across Dip, Las Vegas Up Sligh...

Finally! Some clarity to the situation! I'm forwarding a link to a very well written article, by Frank Geary, published in today's Las Vegas Review Journal. The article is entitled: IS THE HOMEOWNER HOME?: Who's living there? Owner-occupied houses decline in Clark County The article does a really...

Las Vegas Home Prices to Increase I have a Las Vegas Sun article, authored by Buck Wargo that I would like to share if you have not seen it yet. Click here--> Economist: Las Vegas home prices to go up slightly in '11 Wow! A bold prediction on Bucks part. As I wrote in an earlier e-mail, the Homes...

Dear Reader, Las Vegas Home Prices to Increase I have a Las Vegas Sun article, authored by Buck Wargo that I would like to share if you have not seen it yet. Click here--> Economist: Las Vegas home prices to go up slightly in '11   Wow! A bold prediction on Bucks part. As I wrote in an earlier e-...

Summerlin Las Vegas News to Share I have a Las Vegas Sun article, authored by Steve Green that I would like to share if you have not seen it yet. Click here-à Land Plans Signal Growth in Summerlin The good news is that it appears that Summerlin is headed for a growth spurt that many of us who wor...

There are a high number of homeowners that had previously applied to have their loans modified that are leaving the program. The link below will take you to an Associated Press article that appeared in the Palm Beach Post this past week. The article does a good job of outlining the issues that ha...