With many of us still staying home for Nevada, we're highlighting incredibly fun ways to amp up your weekend at home with MUSIC! In this week's Weekend Buzz, you'll find a few suggestions of family-friendly activities that will truly be enhanced by your favorite tunes. If you're looking for an enjoyable way to pass the time this weekend, take advantage of one (or all) of these musical experiences. If you're really missing live music performances, why not sit in on a free live stream from home. It's practically li... read more

  Holidays Are no Holiday In Real Estate 96   sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% }   The latest national housing forecast released last week by Realtor.com brings some encouraging news for buyers. Key market trends are shifting in ways that can help improve affordability, increase options, and create a smoother path to homeownership. Here are the four numbers you need to k... read more

In this month’s Monthly Market Minute Update, we discuss Census data that reveals strong positive net migration to Southern Nevada, particularly from Los Angelinos. While many Las Vegans love the Southern California area, housing affordability is one of the major motivators for leaving California for states like Nevada and Arizona or remaining in those states instead of moving to California. A recent Los Angeles Times article even described leaving coastal California a ‘no-brainer,’ due large... read more

We have discussed the buyer-seller disconnect several times. Few commercial transactions have been consumated in the past couple of years as sellers have either refused to lower prices due to a different read of the fundamentals, they cannot liquidate due to capital constraints (writedowns for bank owned) or that they simply do not understand what they own or just replace number driven judgements with hope. Similarly, some buyers are unrealistic about pricing. They often believe that everything is distressed and ca... read more

Cosmopolitan opened on the 15th of December and I finally made it there yesterday. The property cost $3.9 Billion and has 2,995 rooms. This is actually a significant increase in the available room supply on the strip. The word about employment that we are hearing is that the property has about 5,000 employees. That’s about 1.6 employees per room, down from the 2+ figures we used to hear about in the upper-end resorts. It is very likely that recent economic strains have caused firms to automate more tasks and ... read more