Hal DeKeyser has been a writer and editor appearing in newspapers, magazines, The Associated Press, books and online for decades. His last journalism assignment was managing content at the Las Vegas Review-Journal for magazines, weeklies and Real Estate, automotive, Luxury Las Vegas magazine, special sections and Best of Las Vegas. He is a licensed real estate agent in Nevada (S.0178612) with Universal Realty as well as in Arizona. He specializes in new home buyers, seniors, and movers. Contact him at hal.dekeyser@gmail.com for free books on real estate.
A new 125-acre gated retirement community will open next year. Del Webb at Lake Las Vegas will offer nearly 500 homes from nearly 1,600 to nearly 2,800 square feet. Recreation and amenities It will have the same type of social and recreational amenities that seniors have come to expect in the nation’s first big-development retirement…
Retirees particularly like Henderson and the southwest Millennials are starting to like the Vegas valley more It’s generally good news for the economy If you’re wondering where all those people from California are landing in the Las Vegas valley, you can be sure that plenty of them are moving to Henderson. And that’s particularly pronounced…
My book, “DumpCal – Trade California for Vegas and double your lifestyle for half the cost” explains why the middle class is increasingly abandoning California for places with affording housing, lower taxes, less traffic, and reduced regulation. (Get if free by going to www.DumpCal.com and registering.) Here are a few headlines from around the internet…
Is your home your biggest investment? Or is it simply your biggest expense? We’ve been told the former as far back as we can remember, but it it true today. Or was it ever true? Mind you we’re talking about your primary residence here, not real estate in general. Lots of investors have made millions…
If you’ve been watching interest rates in advance of buying a home in Las Vegas, here are a couple of good news stories for you. And one you won’t like if you’re a DACA immigrant. First the good news: As it now stands, a House committee has voted to remove the requirement that buyers pay…
Are you rich? Do you know what it takes to be considered rich where you live? If you are trying to keep up with the Joneses (or you are them), what do you earn or have that puts you in the “rich” category? One favorite determinant is accumulated wealth. If you own a million-dollar home…
After years of a squeaky tight housing market, it’s getting easier to buy a home in Las Vegas. The two biggest indicators of a shift from a sellers’ to a buyers’ market (or probably more likely a balanced one) is that the median housing price in Vegas has remained the same for three straight months.…
Renters and first-time homebuyers: Do you know what it takes to get a mortgage so you could buy a home instead of giving your money to the landlord every month? No, you don’t. At least that’s the conclusion of researchers for Fannie Mae, who discovered in a recent survey that many people who don’t own…
If you own solar panels on your roof, your house should sell for more than $9,000 than those without it. And Las Vegas homeowners with solar gain more energy benefit than other metros because it has more sun days and fewer sunlight blockers – even more than some sunny places like Phoenix or L.A. That’s…
A median priced home in San Jose California is out of reach even if you make more than $125,000. How would you like to make $125,000 a year — and still not be able to make the median mortgage payment? That’s the case in California’s most expensive real estate city, San Jose. The median…