Last year when Zappos moved into downtown Las Vegas, it left a gaping hole in the Henderson office space from which it moved. But it didn’t take long for the space to be filled.
3 February 2014
By Richard N. Velotta
Home flipping, a hallmark of Las Vegas’ housing bubble, became more popular and a lot more lucrative last year amid surging prices.
29 January 2014
By Eli Segall
Dozens of buildings of 20 stories or more are under construction along the River Thames just upstream from Big Ben and St. Paul's Cathedral. The development surge has spawned concern that the city is sacrificing its heritage for the sake of luxury homes.
28 January 2014
By Danica Kirka, Associated Press
Banks' long-held iron grip on Las Vegas’ wobbly housing market is loosening, as 70 percent of used-home sales now are traditional deals between private buyers and sellers.
21 January 2014
By Eli Segall
In this old Las Vegas neighborhood, most of the homes are occupied only during the day, and then by some of the city’s most prominent lawyers, their paralegals and secretaries. The area is known as “Lawyers Row.”
20 January 2014
By Joe Schoenmann
Nevada’s foreclosure rate showed a big improvement last year but was not good enough to pull the state out of the doldrums.
15 January 2014
By Eli Segall
Suspended Las Vegas attorney Barry Levinson was arraigned today on charges accusing him of stealing more than $1 million from clients.
14 January 2014
By Bethany Barnes
Las Vegas’ battered commercial real estate market is showing signs of life but remains a long way from full recovery. Last year, investors snapped up properties, landlords signed new tenants, industrial buildings sprouted and developers pushed ahead with big retail projects. Much of the same is expected this year, although the valley still faces big obstacles.
13 January 2014
By Eli Segall
Las Vegas home prices inched higher last month to end the year far above 2012.
8 January 2014
By Eli Segall
Is Summerlin Hospital Medical Center plotting another expansion? Its owners recently bought 7 acres of undeveloped land across the street from the Las Vegas facility, property records show.
7 January 2014
By Eli Segall
Southern California and New York investors have teamed up to buy four distressed senior-housing complexes in Las Vegas. The $75 million acquisition — by Interwest Capital Corp. and Angelo, Gordon & Co. — closed last month.
6 January 2014
By Eli Segall
Some of the more stylish residential buildings in Las Vegas are under new ownership, several years after the recession dented their financial health. ST Residential has sold Juhl and the Ogden — two downtown high-rises — along with One Las Vegas, Loft 5 and Spanish Palms Condominiums for $237 million combined.
3 January 2014
By Eli Segall
When Elton John sold his pair of West Hollywood, Calif., condominiums last year, the buyer got more than four walls and the title. The units came with the singer’s designer furnishings, knickknacks and tableware — even his snake-skin-covered bed frame.
30 December 2013
By Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
as Vegas isn’t America’s funniest city, the nerdiest, preppiest or the most exciting, but according to the real estate website Movato.com, it is among America’s 10 best cities for 2013.
23 December 2013
By John Taylor
A man who pleaded guilty in a $15 million mortgage fraud scheme was sentenced this week to 11 years in federal prison. In all, 10 people were charged and convicted in the scheme involving straw buyers and the submission of fraudulent paperwork to obtain mortgage loans, officials said.
20 December 2013
By Tovin Lapan
