There is a great article that The Las Vegas Sun put out today about Pat Mulroy and the SNWA. You can read it here. The article goes into great detail how Pat and SNWA got to where we are today. Good history and good takes on what is happening here in Vegas on the water situation.
Whatever your opinion on growth, the importance of Pat Mulroy on the the Las Vegas real estate market and the Vegas economy in general is paramount. She dominates the discussion when …

I get tons of emails every day into my inbox from a few Google Alerts I have set up. (BTW, I love Google and pretty much everything they put out). I don’t comment on all of them or even read all of them for that matter, but this one is pretty good. Business Week published an article on the affect that increasing gas prices is having on the real estate industry. You can read the article here.
There is tons of information out there depicting just how …

A recent post from In Business Las Vegas discusses the state of the Las Vegas real estate market in wonderful depth and analysis. You can read that article right here.

Some of the most important facts about the real estate market right now are:
1. Four months straight of month over month increase in resales
2. Pending sales in the Las Vegas MLS have increased steadily for the last 6 months straight
3. The amount of resale inventory between $200,000 and $300,000 has been declining consistently as this affordable housing has been …

Esko Kiuru wrote a recent blogpost on his blog stating a piece of information that is key to my readers and to any person who is looking to invest money in the Las Vegas real estate market. The market here has been decimated over the last 18 months due to the shady lending (and borrowing) practices of people in this town . This piece of information is a data point and should not be taken as a trend for the Vegas market, but it is a piece of …

Read this amazing story of lost hope in the current housing crisis.

Station Casinos are planning a mega resort to rival MGM’s Project City Center.

Want to learn about the history Las Vegas? Visit the Las Vegas Sun’s website on this very topic. You will see videos, stories, photographs, and you will feel like you are breathing in the history. The site has an 11 part video series that I will chronicle right here on this blog.

Part 1 is The 1900’s and has a very O Brother Where Art Thou theme to it. It talks about how the City got its start in 1905 when it was founded. Senator William Andrews Clark along …

Geoff Schumacher over at the Las Vegas Review Journal decided to write an OpEd today about letting common sense prevail. Those are not his words, but mine. His article, Las Vegas poised for big economic rebound, is the perfect Prozac for the insane people who think Las Vegas is going to end up a ghost town. He wrote a perfect piece on what I like to call letting the experts rule.

Geoff looks at hard facts, identifies some HUGE, FREAKING developments where billions are being spent and thousands of jobs …

Here are some recent articles from some of the main-stream media that help cause the constant panic we see here in the Las Vegas real estate market. 
 
Las Vegas’s bank broken on wheel of fortune – decent article with some good facts, but easy on the Vegas metaphors, champ.  “America’s prime capitalist melting-pot” and “the world’s capital of consumption”???  Also, some good interviews with people on the ground here in Vegas.  Things are tough for sure and when it starts hitting the gaming biz, you know things are getting screwy.
 
Las …

Land values are beginning to drop as the housing bubble is busting the house in Vegas.