Category Archive : Market Updates

LAS VEGAS, NV – Ground has been officially broken on the Helios Health and Wellness campus in Las Vegas, a massive $5 billion project whose development is being headed up by Salt Lake City-based developer and general contractor Pacific Group.

The Helios project, upon completion, will take the form of a mixed-use facility that will encompass over two million square-feet of laboratory, research and medical office space. In addition, there will also be 500,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space as well as 250 hotel rooms.

The ambitious project will be completed in numerous phases, according to Pacific Group, with the total amount of development time estimated to be between seven and ten years. Ultimately, when finished, the Helios Health and Wellness campus is expected to generate more than 10,000 jobs in Southern Nevada.

Currently, there is massive demand for medical services in the Las Vegas region, owing to the swift growth of the population following a period of rapid economic and job growth, and serves as a prime example of the increase in healthcare construction spending there as of late. Of the 12 major sectors in the second quarter of 2022, Vegas ranked number two in terms of proposal activity in the healthcare market.

Despite rumblings of a national recession, healthcare developers are still betting on Las Vegas due to its population explosion in recent years. A recent study conducted by the University of Nevada predicts that the region’s population will hit approximately 3.4 million residents by 2060; that number currently sits at about 2.33 million.

Plus, another factor that has developers investing countless dollars into Vegas’ health industry is the overall need, with no new medical facilities having been built locally in the last year, leading to a dearth of options for those seeking care.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Las Vegas is one of the most coveted marketplaces in terms of office space in the United States, as a new report currently ranks the city as number two in the country when it comes to the lowest amount of office vacancy.

The City of Las Vegas is experiencing its lowest office vacancy rates in over 15 years, according to the Avison Young’s Third Quarter Office Market Report, which notes that the city’s office market has bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic and recovered 73.1 percent of its occupancy numbers.

In the third quarter of 2022, Vegas had an office vacancy rate of just 12.7 percent, with $234 million being invested in the office market, the highest level since just before the pandemic. The average office rental price was approximately $315 per square-foot, a bump up from the previous average of $299 per square-foot in the second quarter of 2022.

Avison Young – which ranked Charleston, South Carolina at the number one office marketplace in the country, with Nashville, Tennessee coming in third – said that the factors that landed Vegas in the number two spot included a lack of inventory in a hot job market, ensuring that business rents should continue to increase if the country does not enter a recession.

“Rent growth should continue, but concerns surrounding a potential recession and rising interest rates could act as potential headwinds,” Avison Young reported. “The Summerlin and Southwest submarkets are on track to garner office sale prices starting in excess of $400 per square foot over the next few years. Companies and employees alike want to live and work in these desirable suburban Vegas communities.”

North, Southwest, and West Las Vegas currently have the highest average office rents in the Southern Nevada region.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Las Vegas’ M Resort Spa Casino is currently in the process of adding a second tower to their property that will effectively double its size, with the cost of the new addition totaling in the amount of $206 million.

M Resort Spa Casino is a boutique hotel, spa, and casino in Henderson, which is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment. The property currently includes a large casino and a 16-story tower with 390 rooms, and is located eight miles south of the Las Vegas Strip, making it the southernmost casino in the Las Vegas Valley.

Once completed – the timeline of which has not yet been announced – the new tower will add an additional 384 rooms, bringing the M Resort’s total to 774 rooms and suites. Along with the new rooms, the project will also create expanded meeting space and current amenities will be updated as well.

M Resort Spa Casino originally opened on March 1, 2009, amid the Great Recession; in 2010, Penn National Gaming – now Penn Entertainment – purchased $860 million in debt that the resort owed, before taking over complete ownership of the property in 2011.

Penn CEO Jay Snowden said in a press release announcing the new tower that “strong demand” prompted the decision to expand the resort, as well as their successful partnership with the Las Vegas Raiders football team, which now rents out the hotel before games.

“At the M Resort, the addition of a second tower will benefit from the strong demand in the Henderson locals market while providing additional capacity for the group business that is drawn to our market–leading resort and amenities, including our highly successful partnership with the Las Vegas Raiders” Snowden said.

The M Resort features 92,000 square feet of gaming space, including 1,900 slot machines, 64 table games, 14 poker tables, and a race and sports book.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – After dropping for three straight months in a row, prices of houses in Las Vegas held their ground in September, signaling that the market may be re-gaining a foothold and achieving a new measure of stability, experts say.

As it was in August, the median price for a pre-existing one-family home in Southern Nevada was $450,000; that price represents a 10.7 increase from the same period of time in 2021 – when that price was $406,500 – but nonetheless represents a drop from the region’s all-time high of $482,000, which was originally set in May.

But while home prices held steady in Las Vegas in September, the median price for condominiums and townhouses increased over the previous month by approximately two percent, coming in at $270,000; this represents an increase of over 17 percent year-over-year, but still down from May 2022, when that price hit its all-time record of $285,000.

In September, there were over 8,100 single-family homes listed for sale without any offer, which was an increase of over 134 percent when compared to September 2021; the number of condos and townhouses available are up over 194 percent year-over-year as well.

A total of 2,554 existing homes, condos and townhouses were sold in September; those sales numbers, according to Las Vegas Realtors president Brandon Roberts, indicates that Southern Nevada currently possesses a nearly four-month supply of properties for sale.

“It’s interesting to see local home prices level off, at least for now. Home prices and sales had generally been declining since mortgage interest rates started rising,” he said. “The good news for buyers is that it has been at least three years since we’ve had this many homes available for sale.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – A lavish mansion located in Summerlin’s Tournament Hills community has just gone on the market for nearly $9 million, featuring many unique amenities, not the least of which being an indoor shooting range.

The $8.975 million, 21,835 square-foot residence is situated upon three-quarters of an acre of land, and boasts a mind-boggling 11 bedrooms, 16 baths, a commercial elevator, and even hidden rooms. Marble and granite flooring abound, and the 27-foot ceiling in the foyer provides astounding acoustics for music-playing; it is the perfect accompaniment to the home’s Savant System, which provides music throughout the entire residence.

The kitchen – which is hotel restaurant quality – proves to be no less impressive, with extensive cabinetry; two dishwashers; a trash compactor; two Dacor ovens; two Scotsman ice makers; and multiple refrigerated, freezing, and warming drawers. The appliances are stainless steel with Viking hood commercial fryer, a Hobart commercial dishwashing station, commercial Besam automated doors, a commercial refrigerator, and a dishwasher.

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The house also has a 46-foot-by-20-foot professional gym with mirrored walls, wood flooring, three televisions, and state-of-the-art equipment. There is also a game room and a sound-proofed home theater with 15 reclining seats, surround sound, and a Rincon Projector. The bathroom in the master bedroom bath features a dry sauna, Jacuzzi tub, dual sinks, dual vanities and dual toilets; in addition, there is a secret passage in the walk-in closet.

However, the main draw of the property has to be the indoor shooting range, which is located in a hidden room with rubber-coated walls to capture lead dust – the range is designed for no-lead emission – and can accommodate up to 50-caliber handgun ammunition. The target’s distance can be adjusted with an electronic system.

It is currently unknown if the home – which has only just recently been listed on the market – has received any offers as of yet.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – As Las Vegas’ real estate market begins to cool down overall amid rising mortgage rates and record inflation nationwide, the massive rent increases tenants have been seeing have started being walked back recently.

While the average rent in Las Vegas in August was approximately $1,890 – representing an 8 percent jump from the same period of time in 2021 – it’s a far cry from the whopping 25 percent increase rents experienced from August 2020 to August 2021, reports say.

So, while rents are still going up in some instances, the degree of which – with the amounts being called “unsustainable” in the long run by experts – appear to be slowing down significantly, and in some cases going down slightly.

According to Susy Vasquez, interim executive director of the Nevada State Apartment Association (NVSAA), part of that reason is the overall change of the rental market in Las Vegas when compared to last year.

While still a popular destination for many transplants from elsewhere in the country, Vasquez notes that the overall the number of people moving to Southern Nevada is lowering and, due to high prices, more rental units are sitting on the market for longer periods of time. As a result, some landlords are offering various concessions to prospective tenants, such as lowered rent.

But despite these changes in the market, experts say that demand is still “very high” when compared to most other places in the country – due to the still-relatively low cost of living and booming job market – and the current high cost of homes is driving many to rentals until prices come down.

Renting in Southern Nevada is expected to further stabilize in light of a $500 million affordable housing plan launched by Governor Steve Sisolak in early 2022, which would provide funding for initiatives such as new multifamily development, rehabilitation and preservation of existing properties, land acquisition for new construction, and homeowner financial assistance.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – A home recently sold in Las Vegas’ northwest valley for the impressive sum of $4.65 million, but what’s even more impressive about this residence than the price is the fact that it uniquely caters to automotive enthusiasts, including a “super garage” custom-built by the previous owner of the property.

Mike Williams – the founder of Battle Born Steel, Las Vegas-based structural steel company – purchased the home and the property on which it stands in 2021 for $2.1 million. Williams then set out to renovate the one-story residence into the ultimate home for automotive fanatics and then sell it, something he has done three times already to date.

“This is the third home where I have gone in and redone it to my liking, which I think people are liking these days,” Williams said. “We did all the design with no architectural team and it was done by my wife, Athena, and I. But now, it’s time for another project. That’s what we do. We make it about a year or two years on the property and go see something else out there in the market, and that’s what we are venturing to see, now.”

The highlight of the residence is a massive 5,000 square-foot four-bay garage and workshop that can accommodate up to 22 cars; the facility also houses a “man cave” featuring air conditioning and a fully-stocked bar. Situated outside of the garage is a mini motocross track for dirt bikes, another pastime of Williams and his family.

The other side of the home takes the form of a 6,043 square-foot contemporary Tuscan-inspired mansion specifically designed for entertaining guests, offering five bedrooms, six baths, an additional six-car garage, two outdoor movie theaters with sunken wraparound seating, a fireplace and patio, pool and spa, basketball court, lounging areas and an outdoor kitchen.

Having sold the property, Williams said that he has now set out to find yet another home to renovate in line with his vision, for what will be the fourth time in a row.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Plans submitted by Station Casinos – whose parent company is Red Rock Resorts – to construct a new hotel-casino project were recently approved by the North Las Vegas Planning Commission, with the company scheduled next to go before the commission for a first reading and a vote in October.

The Station Casinos project, according to reports, will be built upon a 67 acre plot of land located at the northwest corner of Losee Road and the 215 Beltway, and upon completion will consist of a hotel featuring 600 rooms, a casino with over 75,700 square-feet dedicated to gaming space, as well as numerous high-end amenities such as restaurants, a movie theater, and banquet facilities.

The new Station Casinos resort will prove to be a boon to the local economy as well, with officials representing Red Rock Resorts noting that its development will produce over 1,100 construction jobs and, once open for business, 840 full-time staffing jobs.

Red Rock Resorts is a big-time player in the hospitality industry, and owns multiple hotel-casinos in Southern Nevada under the Station brand, as well as ten Wildfire casinos, with seven located in the Henderson area alone. In addition, a new Wildfire is currently under development in Las Vegas’ downtown area along Fremont Street, a busy tourist destination.

The developer is also in the process of constructing a new resort casino in Southwestern Las Vegas at the intersection of Durango Drive and Interstate 215, which will consist of 73,000-square-foot casino, sports book, a 200-room hotel, four restaurants and meeting space.

Red Rock also announced recently that three casinos they had closed down during the COVID-19 pandemic – Fiesta Henderson, Fiesta Rancho and Texas Station – are now closed permanently, with the buildings slated for demolition and the 107.5 acres of land they currently occupy to be put up for sale. The reasoning for the move, the company noted, was that the casinos’ patrons had taken their business to other Red Rock-owned properties during the closures.

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LAS VAGAS, NV – With mortgage rates going over 6 percent for the first time in 14 years – with the last instance of this occurring during the Great Recession of 2008 – prices of many homes on sale in the Las Vegas real estate market have begun to lower in response, experts say.

The situation is causing some degree of confusion among prospective Vegas-area homebuyers, as many are unsure of what to do; should they wait to make a purchase until mortgage interest rates go down, or would they end up doing themselves more harm than good if that gamble fails to pay off?

However, experts are saying that those who are interested in buying a house should act now and lock in an interest rate, since the fact that home prices are dropping should serve to offset the amount that your monthly payment would be going up. For example, if a homebuyer were to wait and interest rates go up another half-percent, they would find themselves with a much higher monthly payment than if they had purchased a home that cost as much as $10,000 to $20,000 more.

Those in the know are also noting that higher mortgage interest rates may actually cause a reduction in the amount of homes available on the market, as there are not only fewer buyers, but also fewer sellers, with more people taking a “wait and see” approach to listing their homes until circumstances improve.

But real estate experts are saying they anticipate the issue to have less of an impact in Southern Nevada than it will have elsewhere in the nation, given the region’s strong job growth over the course of the last year, as well as the resurgence of the hospitality industry following the COVID-19 pandemic. The area’s low taxes and relatively affordable housing when compared to many other parts of the country are also still serving to drive interest in moving to Las Vegas.

Those factors, along with belief by some that mortgage rates may come down sooner rather than later, will ensure that Las Vegas will remain a competitive and attractive housing market for years to come.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – A new multi-family apartment complex in North Las Vegas celebrated its official groundbreaking ceremony last week, with both city officials and local civic leaders on-hand to help mark the occasion.

The “North Park Living” development, located at 4100 Scott Robinson Boulevard near Alexander Road and MLK Boulevard, will offer a total of 380 apartments upon completion, with the project consisting of 22 two-story residential buildings upon completion of the $85 million project.

North Park Living will also offer numerous amenities for residents, including an abundance of greenery and trees – in keeping with the “park” name – as well as a clubhouse, an event space pavilion, fire pits, pickleball courts and a resort-style swimming pool and spa.

The developer, Grand Canyon Development Partners (GCDP), noted that the project is expected to be completed by June 2024, although leasing of the units will begin in 2023.

GCDP President Sam Nicholson said that North Park Living will be unique addition to North Las Vegas, and will greatly assist with the housing shortage in the region.

“We are thrilled to partner and help create the North Park Living development,” he said. “This is an especially distinctive project for the North Las Vegas area, and the owner took great care in every stage of planning to provide a high-quality residential community at a value price for renters.”

As a way of giving back to the community, the owner of North Park Living, Rian Ross, donated $10,000 to Findlay Middle School during the groundbreaking ceremony.

“We are honored to give back to Findlay Middle School as a close neighbor to the North Park Living development,” he said. “As someone whose family has had deep ties to the North Las Vegas community since the 1970’s, it was incredibly important for me to show that we truly care for our neighbors that reside here while developing in the area.”

For more information on leasing opportunities contact the developer, Grand Canyon Development Partners Corporate Office at (702) 492-5300 or visit grandcanyoninc.com. Photo credit: KSNV News 3; Courtesy of North Park Living.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The Las Vegas Convention Center is set to get a new coat of paint – and quite a bit more – when its upcoming two-year renovation project begins in just six months, and according to a presentation made to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) board of directors this week, the total cost of the project is slated to be an eye-opening $620 million.

That number includes the addition of $20 million for new administrative and executive offices and a board meeting room, with LVCVA Chief Financial Officer Ed Finger noting the overall cost of the renovations fall exactly within the confines of the ambitious project’s original projected estimate.

The next meeting to take place in regards to the renovation is with the Governor’s Oversight Panel, which is slated to take place on October 12, at which time consideration will be given to approving the addition of the office and meeting space – which is planned to be twice the size of the existing one – as well as the overall schedule for construction.

The renovation will be giving a huge facelift to the Convention Center’s North, Central and South Halls, and with work on the South Hall likely progressing last due to the fact that it is the newest section of the building; in the meantime, some executive offices will be relocated there as work begins on the North and Central Halls first.

In its current form, the project will excise approximately 21,000 square feet of exhibit space to make way for the new executive offices and meeting room, which will be situated in the vicinity of the east end of the South Hall and near the eastern loop of the facility’s underground “people mover” transit system, previously installed by Elon Musk’s Boring Company.

The Convention Center’s façade is also being refreshed, and will take its visual cues from the $1 billion West Hall, which opened last year; construction is anticipated to start after the conclusion of the ConExpo-Con/Agg construction equipment trade show in March 2023.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – As the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates in an attempt to curb the 40-year high inflation that has been holding Americans in its crushing financial grip, home mortgage interest rates have been correspondingly raising along with them, hitting 6 percent last Thursday for the first time since the housing market crash of 2008.

The loss of the cheap money that was fueling the nation’s home-buying frenzy during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an overall slowdown of the market, both in Las Vegas and nationwide, as prospective buyers have been putting the brakes on their house hunting and sellers – who lately have been lowering their asking prices after seeing them skyrocket for the past year – have seen offers dwindle.

Last Thursday, the average rate on a 30-year home loan reached 6.02 percent – the highest level since November 2008, which was 14 years ago – up from 5.89 percent last week and 2.86 percent at this point in time one year ago.

For the past year, home prices and demand in Southern Nevada have surged, breaking records on a monthly basis; however, as inflation has gradually increased along with mortgage rates, the market in Las Vegas has shown some distinct signs of slowing down. Nonetheless, numbers still remain at higher levels than last year, and higher than average for the U.S. overall.

At the end of August 2022, there were almost 8,000 pre-owned houses on the market without offers, representing a 146 percent increase over August 2021; the median sales price of these homes was $450,000 in August, down 3.2 percent, or $15,000, from July, but still 11 percent higher than they were year-over-year. Nonetheless, August was the third month in a row that home prices in Southern Nevada have decreased, following a hot streak where they failed to drop for nearly two years.

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