I am going to break an important business rule and promote a competitor of mine. Why? Credit has to be given when it’s earned and Colin has earned my respect.A good way to gain added value in a real estate transaction in Las Vegas is to buy a property and then up-zone it. For example; [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2007
All Las Vegas real estate agents are not equal, pitfalls of being represented by a Realtor® with no commercial experience or education in commercial real estate transactions
August 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas Real Estate
Tags: agent·commercial·homes·Las Vegas·Nevada·real estate·Realtor
Las Vegas home and condo market condition past, present and future
August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas condos, Las Vegas homes, Las Vegas Real Estate
Las Vegas real estate began to heat up towards the summer of 2002 and really heated up by Feb-2003. During the summer of 2003 new home sales staff would not even let the customers in the sales office. Every time a new home builder announced the opening of a new home sub-division there would be [...]
Tags: condo·home·Las Vegas·market condition past·Neada·real estate·residential
Pitfalls of not being represented by a Realtor when buying a new Las Vegas home
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas homes
I am always baffled when I see new home buyers in one of the Las Vegas new home sale offices without an agent by their side. Talk about foolishness, why would someone take such a big risk with one of the biggest transactions of their life when there are no rewards? Las Vegas new home [...]
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War with Iran is bad for Las Vegas real estate
August 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas Real Estate
The estimations for the cost of Iraq war vary widely. One estimate shows “A running total of the amount of money spent by the US Government to finance the war, based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office” to be about 456 billion dollars so far. The same website estimates the cost of war by [...]
Las Vegas land prices are sliding, save the Las Vegas Boulevard (Strip)
August 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I am in the middle of a fresh look at all of the available vacant land for sale which are listed in property Line. Property Line is the commercial real estate agents version of MLS. I am primarily looking at all the land between 1- 15 acres. There are 610 parcels listed and I am [...]
Tags: land·Las Vegas·Las Vegas Boulevard·Nevada·pricing·real estate·Strip
Dubai World is buying a half of the Las Vegas CityCenter plus a share of MGM Mirage.
August 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas high-rise condos
Dubai World is investing $2.7bn in MGM’s City Center development. CityCenter is a mixed-use luxury residential, resort and retail complex along the Las Vegas Strip. Dubai World is also buying $2.4 billion worth of MGM Mirage shares, reflecting a 9.5% stake in the business. Dubai World made headlines last year when its subsidiary, Dubai Ports [...]
Tags: CityCenter·condo·condominum·Dubai·high-rise·Las Vegas·Nevada·real estate
About Las Vegas CityCenter
August 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas high-rise condos
Las Vegas CityCenter is a seven billion-dollar urban metropolis consisting of hotels and condominium towers that will be built on 76 acres on Las Vegas Boulevard, between the Cosmopolitan High Rise Condo Project and the Monte Carlo Casino. CityCenter consists of a 60 story, 4,000-room luxury hotel with a casino and 5 additional towers, a [...]
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Las Vegas Vertical High-Rise Condominiums in relationship to transportation and location
August 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Las Vegas high-rise condos
I have decided to add Las Vegas High-Rise pages to my Las Vegas Real Estate web site within the next month. In order to provide real information to my customers I will try to provide them with a grading system for Las Vegas high-rise condominiums. The grading system is as follows: Las Vegas is definitely [...]
Tags: best location·condo·condominum·high-rise·Las Vegas·Nevada·real estate·residential
Where is the best place in Las Vegas to buy commercial real estate or investment property?
August 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas Commercial Real Estate
While a Realtor cannot answer the buyer’s question as to where is the best area in Las Vegas to buy a home or condo, Commercial real estate agents can tell the investor which areas of Las Vegas are best suited to his/her needs. The best area to buy commercial real estate depends on the buyer’s [...]
Tags: best location·commercial·homes·Las Vegas·Nevada·real estate·residential
Best Place in Las Vegas to Buy a Home, Condo or Investment and Commercial Properties
August 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas Real Estate
I get a few enquiries about the best place in Las Vegas to buy a home, condo or commercial real estate. The answer is twofold. 1: No REALTOR or residential real estate agent can tell you where the best place to buy a residential property is. And the reasons follow: A: Doing so violates the [...]
Tags: best location·commercial·homes·Las Vegas·Nevada·real estate·residential
Action required 100 years ago, chance of the life time for Yahoo; it took the BIG BANG…..
August 18th, 2007 · No Comments · My Business and Personal Blog
Who said that blogs and complaints always have to be serious? My web site is not fully indexed in yahoo so I submitted the following feedback to their Site Explorer. Most of these feedbacks are complains from unhappy customers. So I thought I go the opposite way. I will let you know what happens. So [...]
Pricing Las Vegas Properties Illogically
August 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas Real Estate
Last week an out of state customer asked me to e-mail him some commercial listings between 1.5-3 million dollars. I picked a few properties which suited his needs from the commercial properties data base and e-mailed him. He wanted more info on three properties, so I called the listing agents. One of the listing agents [...]
Tags: ·Las Vegas·Nevada·pricing·real estate
Issues with the Greater Las Vegas valley Home Owner Associations (HOA)
August 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas homes
The newer Las Vegas residential properties are built in subdivisions. Subdivisions are real estate lingo for common-interest development. The fastest growing form of housing in the United States today is common-interest developments, a category that includes planned-unit developments of single-family homes, condominiums, and cooperative apartments. A homeowners’ association is the governance function of a common [...]
Better Way to Bombard People
August 15th, 2007 · No Comments · My Business and Personal Blog
When I visit Yahoo News or watch CNN or other news channels, it is hard to miss all the killings and violence. Today the headline was that 3 bombers have blown up a bunch of people in three small villages Northwest of Iraq. The bombers hid the bombs in a water truck, a gasoline truck [...]
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Homes Under $150,000 in Las Vegas
August 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Las Vegas homes
I did a home search for houses under $150,000 in the Greater Las Vegas Valley. There were about 18 homes available in the MLS (Multiple Listing Service), these homes were either pre-manufactured homes which were set on permanent foundation for the ease of financing or homes that are older than 35 years old and in [...]
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