Category Archive : Real Estate

LAS VEGAS, NV – A growing number of homebuyers in the Southern Nevada region are paying for their purchases in cold, hard cash as opposed to taking out mortgages, a recent report says, which could be fueled by several factors, including investment and the arrival of affluent transplants from neighboring states.

The Las Vegas Realtors group report released last Wednesday indicates that 32 percent of all property transactions that took place during March 2022 – which includes existing homes, condominiums and townhomes – were paid for in full with cash, which is an increase of 8 percent over the same period of time one year prior.

Experts say there are numerous factors that could be contributing to the increase in cash real estate purchases in Southern Nevada as of late, such as an increase in investors sinking their money into the market. In addition, there has been an influx of new, wealthy residents to the region from neighboring markets such as California, where homes overall are far pricier; after selling of their old homes, these new transplants to Nevada are flush with cash and ready to take advantage of the comparatively lower home prices.

The median price for an exiting home in Las Vegas in March was $460,000 – yet another record amount – and the median price for a condominium or townhome was $270,000; compare that amount to the median home price in Los Angeles, which came in at an astonishing $935,640. With those numbers in mind, it’s no wonder that California homeowners are cashing out and fleeing for neighboring states such as Nevada with a lower cost of living.

However, this bump in cash sales, while significant, is nonetheless still less then Vegas’ peak rate which in 2013 following the recession, where the number of cash-based transactions hit a whopping 60 percent.

Shelter Realty is a Real Estate and Property Management Company specializing in the areas of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, NV. Feel free to give us a call at 702.376.7379 so we can answer any questions you may have.

LAS VEGAS, NV – An aging million-dollar-plus home located in Las Vegas’ Red Rock Country Club community that has received a huge facelift – now boasting numerous new modern touches – has just been listed on the open market for $3.5 million.

Forte Specialty Contractors, owned by developer Scott Acton, has been responsible for renovating many high-end homes in Southern Nevada and building some of the iconic sights of Las Vegas, such as the pirate ship at Treasure Island 20 years ago.

In September 2020, Acton purchased a home in Red Rock Country Club for $1.025 million that was originally built in 2003, and spent a year gutting, renovating and sprucing it up to suit the tastes of today’s homebuyers that are seeking out the latest in high-tech bells and whistles, along with luxury trappings such as high-end finishes and appliances, along with new open floor plans.

The two-story home – listed by Acton’s daughter, Samantha Paez – offers five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and comes in at 4,546 square feet, with 100 of those feet having been newly added during the extensive renovation process.

11489 SNOW CREEK AVENUE, LAS VEGAS – $3,500,000.00

The home – located on the golf course in Red Rock – now boasts numerous modernized amenities, including a home office/gym combo, steel windows and doors, high-end upgrades with marble and stone throughout, a double island marble-countered kitchen with white European millwork finishes, Viking appliances and custom banquette seating.

The master bedroom features a patio, custom fabric headboard attached to the wall, a bathroom featuring floor-to-ceiling Vanilla Onyx marble, and an upgraded the backyard with etched concrete, lush landscaping, and a new pool.

Currently, Forte Specialty Contractors is one of the main developers of high-end properties in Las Vegas, with 15 projects currently in the works in The Summit, adjacent to Red Rock Country Club.

Shelter Realty is a Real Estate and Property Management Company specializing in the areas of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, NV. Feel free to give us a call at 702.376.7379 so we can answer any questions you may have.

LAS VEGAS, NV – A new report indicates that Las Vegas’ housing boom isn’t showing any signs of slowing in the near future, as prices continue to increase at an incredible rate when compared to many other markets across the United States.

In January 2022, home prices in Las Vegas had increased year-over-year from January 2021 by an amazing 26.2 percent; this is in contrast with the average gains across the country, which was approximately 19.2 percent, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index released last week by S&P Dow Jones Indices.

It also must be noted that, according to the Case-Shiller data, this represents the eighth month in a row that Las Vegas has seen its homes prices increase faster than the national average, with its highly-competitive market being driven by rapid sales, low inventory, and climbing costs.

In addition, the median sales price of previously owned single-family homes in Las Vegas was $450,000 last month, which represents a jump of 26.8 percent – or $95,000 – from February 2021, reports say.

The report covers 20 major metro areas, and while it illustrated that Vegas is far outpacing much of the country in terms of rising home prices, the king of the pack remains Phoenix, Arizona, which saw the cost of housing increase year-over-year in January by an astonishing 32.6 percent.

The housing boom – both in Las Vegas and nationwide – has been driven by historically low interest rates on mortgages that have allowed buyers to get more for their money; even with interest rates now beginning to increase slowly, the average rate on a 30-year home loan in February 2022 was 3.76 percent. This rate is indeed still quite low, but nonetheless higher than it was in February 2021, when it was a mere 2.81 percent.

Shelter Realty is a Real Estate and Property Management Company specializing in the areas of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, NV. Feel free to give us a call at 702.376.7379 so we can answer any questions you may have.

LAS VEGAS, NV – In an attempt to address the ongoing need for affordable housing options for Las Vegas’ senior population, two developers based out of Denver, Colorado are finalizing plans to develop a new senior-living facility in Southern Nevada, with the groundbreaking planned for the very near future.

MorningStar Senior Living and Confluent Senior are planning on developing a new project located near the intersection of Alta Drive and Hualapai Way – dubbed MorningStar at The Canyons – which will be comprised of a new 196,000 square-foot building with 168 apartment units spread out over four stories.

The units will be broken up into 95 independent-living units, with an additional 49 assisted-living units and 24 memory-care units reserved for seniors that require additional assistance in their day-to-day lives, reports say.

Assisted Living units feature around-the-clock support from on-site Care Managers with the activities of daily living, according to the developer’s website; memory care units are for seniors that are experiencing memory loss and other cognitive functions.

The project will be constructed upon a site approximately 3.7 acres in size that the developers purchased in February for over $7.4 million, with the groundbreaking ceremony slated to take place in the summer of 2022.

According to the developer’s website, the grand opening for the facility is expected to be held in the second quarter of 2024.

MorningStar at The Canyons will offer numerous attractive amenities for its senior tenants, including an outdoor bar, pool and hot tub, in addition to a movie theater, a gym, indoor and outdoor dining venues, and a clubroom terrace with views of the famed Las Vegas Strip.

This project marks the first collaboration between MorningStar Senior Living and Confluent Senior on a development project in the state of Nevada, reports say.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Las Vegas Realtors Association President Brandon Roberts is predicting that, as Southern Nevada’s home prices continue to break record after record – causing intense affordability concerns – the market will eventually right itself and stabilize, noting that the current situation is “not sustainable” long-term as it is.

In February 2022, the median price of existing single-family homes in Las Vegas reached a new record – $450,000 – which itself leapfrogged the previous record just the month before. Overall, the median price was just $355,000, with the new record representing a whopping 26.8 percent year-over-year increase and over three times the $118,000 existing homes were fetching in January 2012 during the recession.

It’s easy to see how much the intense housing demand is driving home prices up in the region; in 2021, there were 38,601 home sales in Vegas, and over 50,000 when townhouses and condominiums are added into the equation. However, this represents a situation that Roberts says can’t last.

“Local home prices can’t keep going up this fast, forever. The increases we’ve been seeing in the last year or so are just not sustainable,” he said. “It remains to be seen how much higher these prices can go and when we might start to see the market stabilize, as many national experts have been predicting. Either way, I seriously doubt you’ll see home prices more than triple again in a single decade.”

Given the record-setting nature of the real estate industry in 2021, Roberts said that he expects this trend to continue into 2022 but that prices and demand will start to level off as interest rates on home loans begin to slowly rise from the historic lows they hit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“That affects people’s buying power, which could affect the demand on some of the properties,” Roberts said. “I do think we will stay strong because we have low inventory, and we will continue to see that. As soon as they are coming on the market, they’re selling. We’re in a shortage of housing, I don’t think builders could build it fast enough because of supply, labor and permits. I think we will see increases (in prices) but not at the level we saw last year.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The defunct Terrible’s Hotel & Casino, which has been closed and sitting unused for two years, will be demolished and the property used to construct a large-scale industrial park, according to an announcement by a Reno developer.

Terrible’s, which originally opened in 1987 and closed for good in 2020, was owned by the Herbst family – operators of the Terrible Herbst gas station chain – and is located about 25 miles south of Downtown Las Vegas.

Public records show that on February 24, Tolles Development Company closed on a $44.7 million deal with the Herbst family for the sale of the approximately 142.3 acres of real estate in Jean Nevada off Interstate 15 that Terrible’s Hotel & Casino sits upon.

Tolles partner Cory Hunt noted that the location is ideal for an industrial park, since truckers delivering goods from Southern California could drop off their wares and be home in what would amount to a one-day round trip, as opposed to having to travel much further into Nevada. In addition, the location already has utility service in-place due to the hotel’s presence.

Hunt said plans are in-place to develop the property into a 1.9 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution complex, with a groundbreaking possibly planned for 2023; from there, it is estimated that the industrial park would take anywhere from three to five years to construct. Clark County commissioners approved plans for the project last month.

The last construction phase of the project will involve the current Terrible’s Hotel & Casino building itself, although it is not currently yet known how the structure will be demolished. However, Hunt facetiously said that if they decide to implode it, it would be done in over-the-top “Vegas style” and that he would be happy to allow a filmmaker to record the explosion for a movie to “help us celebrate blowing it up.”

Shelter Realty is a Real Estate and Property Management Company specializing in the areas of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, NV. Feel free to give us a call at 702.376.7379 so we can answer any questions you may have.

LAS VEGAS, NV – A lavish Las Vegas mansion that was once rented as a home for a whopping $50,000 a month 15 years ago by the late and controversial “King of Pop” Michael Jackson has been listed for sale on the market.

The 17,461-square-foot Las Vegas estate – surrounded by a 10-foot-high wall – is located in the western Las Vegas Valley, and currently has an asking price of $9.5 million.

Luxury real estate brokerage The Agency announced Friday that a 17,461-square-foot mansion in western Las Vegas, home to the King of Pop 15 years ago, is on the market for $9.5 million. Sellers Dong Xue and his wife Jeanette Zhou – both big fans of Jackson – bought the home in 2010 for $3.1 million.

2785 SOUTH MONTE CRISTO WAY, LAS VEGAS – $9,500,000.00

The mansion – which Jackson rented for a year in 2006 after spending time in the Middle East and Ireland – is located on an acre of land 15 minutes from The Las Vegas Strip at 2785 South Monte Cristo Way. It features eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and a Roman-style interior, an indoor fountain, custom chandeliers, a home theater, a security room, marble flooring and an orchestra loft overlooking a grand ballroom.

Jackson – whose sisters and parents lived in the Southern Nevada region at the time he rented the home – had faced allegations of sexual abuse for a number of years, and some have speculated that he had rented the compound in order to have privacy from paparazzi, which are rare in Las Vegas.

Some of Jackson’s personal furniture – including a dining table and a sofa – remained in the house when Xue and Zhou purchased it; the couple, previously California residents, had been using the mansion as their primary residence for over ten years.

The property was listed on the market Thursday, March 3.

Feature photo: Jackson attending The 4th Annual Roger Neal Oscar Viewing Dinner-Icon Awards and After Party at The Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA on February 24th, 2019 File photo: Eugene Powers, Shutter Stock, licensed.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Ever-increasing home prices in Las Vegas are now outstripping the current average in the United States, according to a recent Case-Shiller report, with the end of 2021 setting the stage for what to expect in 2022.

House values in Southern Nevada in December 2021 had shockingly jumped 25.5 percent from the same period of time in 2020; this runs in contrast with the 18.8 percent price climb on a national basis, according to reports. Vegas home prices have been accelerating past the national average now for the past seven months in a row.

Arizona, specifically Phoenix, is also a region where home prices have been rising fastest over the course of the past year, blasting past the national average to an even greater degree than Vegas. As of press time, home prices in Phoenix have jumped a whopping 32.5 percent year-over-year, illustrating the exuberant degree that home prices have raised overall in the United States during the past 365 days, despite – or perhaps because of – the impact of the pandemic.

Among the 20 markets covered by S&P Dow Jones, home prices are at an all-time high despite high unemployment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; this factor has been mitigated by rock-bottom interest rates on home loans that have allowed buyers to maximize their budgets.

Rising home costs, both in Las Vegas and nationwide, have also been driven by limited inventory and “persistent demand,” real estate experts say.

However, of the 15 markets tracked by the Case-Shiller report, Southern Nevada has been proven to be an especially popular place for people to move to due to its low cost of living when compared to other regions with higher tax brackets and overall lower – for the time being – home prices.

Shelter Realty is a Real Estate and Property Management Company specializing in the areas of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, NV. Feel free to give us a call at 702.376.7379 so we can answer any questions you may have.

LAS VEGAS, NV – Addressing concerns over cost-of-living increases in Southern Nevada in recent years, a developer has begun construction on an affordable housing project targeting Las Vegas senior citizens in the east section of the valley, a vulnerable population that is often neglected when it comes to housing options in their price range.

According to the Neighborhood Housing Services of Southern Nevada (NHSSN), ground was broken on “The Golden Rule Senior Apartments” on Eastern Avenue on Thursday of last week, which – once completed – will provide 60 rental units for very low-to-moderate-income seniors.

The National Low Income Housing Coalition has stated over the course of the last several years that the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise metropolitan area has offered the lowest amount of housing options for renters with limited means, with only 16 out of every 100 homes built catering to those in lower income brackets, reports say.

The Golden Rule apartment complex – located at 820 N. Eastern Avenue – is expected to be completed by February 2023, according to Clark County Commissioner William McCurdy, who said that Las Vegas needs to address the housing needs of its senior population.

“Too many of our seniors are struggling as rents and the cost of living in Las Vegas increase,” he said. “I’m very happy that we were able to contribute financially toward the completion of this project, which will house those with little income and provide needed social support for these residents.”

The project is being funded with $600,000 in Account for Affordable Housing Trust funds (AAHTF), $828,000 in National Housing Trust Funds from the State of Nevada (NHTF), $675,000 in the form of a permanent loan from Chase Bank, $1.9 million from the City of Las Vegas, and $12.3 million from private investor Boston Financial.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Gene Simmons, widely known bassist for the legendary rock band Kiss, has sold his Vegas area mansion after he first listed it on the market in October 2021, a mere six months after originally purchasing it.

Simmons’ luxurious home – located at 7 Talus Court in Henderson – is currently under contract, reports say. He had first listed it for $15 million, but then dropped the price to $13.5 million one month later. He also announced earlier in February that he was even willing to take certain types of cryptocurrency – such as Bitcoin – in exchange for the home.

The 72 year-old rocker had originally purchased the mansion in May 2021 for $8.2 million, in addition to an adjacent .48-acre parcel of land for $2.6 million, for a total of $10.8 million. However, he only resided there for several months before going on tour, leaving the home empty.

Simmons’ mansion is a two-story, six-bedroom, 10,871 square-foot residence with six full baths, two half-baths, a pool, 3,963 square feet on the first floor, 3,882 on the second floor, a finished 3,026 square-foot basement and 2,284 square-foot basement garage.

The home is situated on nearly a full acre of land, including a “little forest” of over 130 trees that Simmons had planted on approximately a half-acre he said set him back $1 million.

When asked why he was selling it, he stated in an interview that his family was “not fans of 115-degree weather,” adding “how many houses do you need anyway?”

Known by the alias “The Demon” when rocking out on-stage, Simmons also noted in a separate interview that he was leaving his long-time home in Los Angeles for a 12,000 square-foot mansion in Lake Tahoe; he cited the need for a “quieter life” and the fact that California had become “inhabitable” due to its high tax rates.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – For a great while, condominiums failed to figure into the Las Vegas real estate marketplace to the same degree as stand-alone homes did; however, that began to drastically change right before COVID-19 hit, but while the pandemic caused a brief hiccup in the ascension of condos as a viable real estate marketplace asset, the market nonetheless recovered and rose to a status of prominence that is currently showing no signs of slowing down.

Today, condos in Las Vegas are viewed as an excellent and affordable alternative to the ever-increasing expense of stand-alone homes, especially among Millennials who are approaching typical home-buying age. In fact, in December 2021, condo sales in Southern Nevada totaled over $221 million, representing a 38.5 percent increase over December 2020, with the median sales price year-over-year jumping by 30.1 percent.

Condos have become a popular means to achieve home occupancy in Las Vegas in the face of the demand for housing options that, thus far, local Southern Nevada home developers have not been able to adequately address. This comes in the face of increased migration to Vegas by residents from neighboring states – especially California – that are in search of more affordable lifestyle options or investment properties when compared to their previous homes.

The two main groups that are driving condo sales in Las Vegas as of late are – first of all – millennials, many of whom are approaching the age where they are where they are considering becoming first-time homeowners. This is being driven in-part by this tech-savvy generation’s embracement of the concept of digital home buying, which can often be done on their cell phones for an easy shopping experience.

Secondly, approximately 25 percent of Las Vegas condo buyers since 2019 have been residents from California, some of whom were making the move to Nevada permanent and were able to purchase residences with cash due to the sale of their original home; many others have been second-home buyers who have retained their California residences.

Experts see 2022 continuing this trend, especially if the state of California passes its much-talked-about “wealth tax,” in addition to other ongoing cost of living increases that residents consider excessive and, in many cases, unsustainable.

Shelter Realty is a Real Estate and Property Management Company specializing in the areas of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, NV. Feel free to give us a call at 702.376.7379 so we can answer any questions you may have.

LAS VEGAS, NV – Las Vegas-based real estate firm Nigro Development held a public groundbreaking ceremony recently to signify the start of construction on SpringHill Suites, a 127-room hotel situated in the Las Vegas Valley north of the 215 Beltway at Decatur Boulevard.

According to a statement issued by the firm, construction of SpringHill Suites is slated to be completed in the first quarter of 2023, with Nigro Development President Michael Nigro saying that it will address a very real need for housing options in this part of the city.

“The southwest region of Las Vegas has developed so much in recent years, and there is an increasing need for this type of property to support those in the community as the population and visitor numbers grow, along with the new industrial businesses opening in the area,” he said.

Nigro Development is no stranger to the Las Vegas real estate scene; they are responsible for creating several mass rental properties in Southern Nevada in an effort to address the serious demand for affordable housing options as the local economy continues to recover in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to SpringHill Suites, the company has also been responsible for constructing a Residence Inn on St. Rose Parkway in Henderson and a Fairfield Inn & Suites on Sky Pointe Drive in the northwest valley, both of which were completed in 2019. In addition, the firm also broke ground on a 119-room TownePlace Suites in North Las Vegas in 2020; that project is slated to be finished and open for business in the spring of 2022.

“With over 600,000 square feet of space currently under management for investor partners, Nigro Properties has proven success in the property management realm,” Nigro’s website states. “Nigro Properties ongoing objective entails providing first class environments for conducting business while attracting and maintaining satisfied tenants. Nigro Properties’ staff never ‘rests on its laurels.’ They are steadfast in their quest to maintain the highest levels of quality customer service in Las Vegas, always fostering positive tenant relations and exceeding expectations.”

Feature photo: Todd Nigro, Brian Paulson, Michael Nigro, Dave Voiss, Mike Cook, Cory Frank pose during the ground breaking at Decatur Commons and going vertical ceremony for Springhill Suites. Photo credit: Ronda Churchill for Nigro.

Shelter Realty is a Real Estate and Property Management Company specializing in the areas of Henderson, Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, NV. Feel free to give us a call at 702.376.7379 so we can answer any questions you may have.