By Hal DeKeyser I hear it all the time from open house visitors and other buyers and sellers of Las Vegas real estate: “What are the Raiders coming to Vegas going to do to our home values?” If you live in suburbia, which is most of Las Vegas, it will mean nothing – at least…
I’m part of a Facebook group helping new bloggers set up their sites and get started telling stories in their passion subjects. It seems they spend considerable energy (and angst) on logos and icons. Some pop and show readers immediately what the topic is. Others are overly complicated, hard to read, and don’t do the…
If you’re wondering just what it might take to finally flee the high housing and tax costs of living in California, here’s a compendium of stories out of the Golden State that might push you in one direction or another. The book, “DumpCal – Trade California for Vegas and double your lifestyle for half the…
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…
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…
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…
While Hispanics make up just north of 18 percent of the U.S. population, they accounted for more than three-fifths of the growth in home ownership over the past decade, according to an annual report of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, or NAHREP. The report said Hispanics made up 39.6 percent of household…