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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; […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 World, […]

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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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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 not […]

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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 […]

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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 Fair Housing […]

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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 here […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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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