las vegas growth: Las Vegas Home Sales Up Again!
- 07/09/08 09:02 PM
Yes, contrary to all the gloom & doom the media likes to blast out about Las Vegas, home sales are up for the 6th straight month. Inventory levels also continuing to remain stable. A short blurb from the Las Vegas Review Journal. Edited to add - A more detailed story from the RJ You might also want to take a look at one of my posts from a short while back, about some of the media spin about the Las Vegas housing market. Those truthful stories seem to be well hidden, and don't have the same attention getting clout as the 'shocking' headlines. It's why you need to look much closer at the local (4 comments)
las vegas growth: Las Vegas Construction Part 2
- 01/20/08 03:14 PM
You may have heard that Las Vegas has been one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. Las Vegas is also the largest city created in the twentieth century. It began in 1905 with the railroad land auction. The estimated population by 1910 was 975. Here is a panoramic image of what Las Vegas looked like then. 1910 Las Vegas Panorama Today, the Las Vegas population is over 2 million. For an idea of the current construction growth, you can look at my previous post. Las Vegas Construction Boom For a current nighttime view of the Las Vegas Strip, look at this post. Las Vegas Night (3 comments)