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LAS VEGAS, NV – A massive compound located in Las Vegas’ affluent Spanish Trail community that was previously owned by the Prince of Brunei – and at one time occupied by late pop singer Michael Jackson – has been listed on the market for a whopping $25 million. 

The compound, coming in at over 110,000-square-feet and located on a 16-acre plot of land, is located at 99 Spanish Gate Drive and at one time was linked to Jefri Bolkiah, the prince of the tiny Asian country of Brunei. Reports also indicate that in 2007 Michael Jackson had moved into Bolkiah’s compound and stayed there for some time. 

Construction of the property – referred to as “an unfinished masterpiece” by its principal broker, Ivan Sher – began in 1996, and is approximately 90 percent complete; there has been no additional development of the compound since 1999, Sher said. 

The home is completely enclosed and finished, but what’s not included is appliances and some detailed finish work isn’t complete, but for the most part it’s a mostly completed home,” he said. “When they built it, they had different expectations about moving to Las Vegas and ultimately ended up not moving.” 

99 SPANISH GATE DRIVE, LAS VEGAS – $25,000,000.00

Sher has not named the current owners of the property, noting that he has not dealt with them directly and instead has been conducting business through their lawyers and financial advisors; the reason the property has been put on the market is unknown, he said. 

The 110,320-square-foot compound has 10 interconnecting buildings, with the main house coming in at 37,466-square-feet with five bedrooms and eight baths. There’s also a 47,367-square-foot athletic club/pool house with an indoor badminton and squash courts, a hotel-sized spa and gym, indoor pool, bowling alley and nightclub.  

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LAS VEGAS, NV – After skyrocketing for a significant amount of time and raising affordability concerns in the city, a new Zillow report indicates that rental rates in Las Vegas have decreased for the second month in a row, showing that the marketplace is beginning to achieve a level of stability.  

The average rental price in September for a two-bedroom apartment in Las Vegas was $1,808 – a figure that Zillow determined by calculating the weighted nationwide average – which represents a 0.2 percent drop from August, and a 1.4 percent drop from September 2022. 

Currently, rental rates in Las Vegas are at their lowest point since October 2022; however, this situation does not echo developments in the rental market nationwide. According to the consumer price index (CPI) – utilized by the federal government to gauge inflation – rents across the country are still on the rise, and experts have stated that high rental rates have been one of the last key metrics that have kept inflation at its current exuberant level. 

Overall rental rates in the country were up 0.2 percent in September, although senior economist Orphe Divounguy stated that such increase is not entirely accurate to the CPI, nor indicative of actual market conditions, due to many new tenants signing 12-month or longer rental agreements.  

With that being the case, current conditions may take approximately a year to start reflecting in the CPI, Divounguy said, and the real numbers indicate that stability is slowly returning to the rental market across the country, as well as in Las Vegas. 

Although the consumer price index showed an uptick in rent prices in September, annual rent inflation continues to moderate and is likely to continue to move in the right direction,” he said. “This is because rent inflation tends to be most responsive to labor market tightness. Wage growth is moderating.” 

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LAS VEGAS, NV – With the married duo set to move to London in the coming months, celebrity couple Kyle Dean Massey and Taylor Frey have listed their Las Vegas mansion – located in the affluent Spanish Hills master-planned community, which has also been the home to stars such as Nicolas Cage and Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil – on the open market for $4 million. 

Massey is best known for his leading roles in the Broadway musicals Wicked, Next to Normal, and Pippin, as well as for a recurring role on the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville. Frey, meanwhile, is best known for playing Don Hagerty in the horror movie It Chapter Two, and will be starring in the upcoming film The Holiday Exchange with Kyle Richards and Rick Cosnett from a script that he also penned. 

Massey and Frey had purchased the large ranch-style home in 2021 for $1.5 million; it was originally built in 2002 but was extensively customized and renovated after the two acquired it. Located on a one-third of an acre plot of land, the 6,000-square-foot residence – located in an exclusive guard-gated community – boasts five bedrooms and three baths and features luxurious trappings such as marble floors, high ceilings, and high-end wallpaper treatments by designers such as Versace, Roberto Cavalli and Phillip Jeffries. 

5091 MOUNTAIN TOP CIRCLE, LAS VEGAS – $3,950,000.00

The home also comes complete with a gourmet kitchen replete with quartz countertops, dual islands, stainless steel appliances and custom cabinetry. A luxe master retreat set in its own dedicated wing offers a fireplace, large walk-in closets, and a spa-styled bath which includes a steam shower and soaking tub built into a bed of lava rock. 

The backyard, which is accessed through French doors, gives off a resort-style atmosphere and has many luxury amenities, including fruit trees, a pool with cascading waterfall and spa, and numerous areas for lounging and entertaining guests. 

Rounding out the home’s impressive features is an attached four-car garage that includes an electric vehicle charger. 

See full listing details for 5091 Mountain Top Circle, Las Vegas

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The former chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International, Jim Murren, has sold his Las Vegas mansion – dubbed “Skyspace” – for over $15 million, making it the second highest price that a home has fetched in the Valley this past September, following the sale of actor Mark Walberg’s Summit Club bungalow for $16.65 million. 

Murren had previously listed the residence for sale in July 2020 – at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic – for $10.5 million, although he later removed it from the market. He eventually relisted it for $17.75 million, with the home selling last month for $15.95 million. 

Skyspace is a 13,000 square-foot home situated on 1.5 acres on Painted Feather Way within the Summerlin community and golf club, offering views of the Las Vegas Strip via a series of wall-to-wall windows. It has five bedrooms, eight baths, and a separate one-bedroom guest house.  

The mansion was created with a reverence for art and philosophy; there are several corner spaces that allow for solitary reflection, indoor bamboo and pine trees, and a Zen garden outside the main bedroom laden with multiple pathways that could take upwards of 45 minutes to traverse. The house also contains numerous amenities, including an indoor basketball court, gym, movie theater, wine cellar, pool, spa, and a huge open-concept kitchen. 

“Skyspace” derives its name from a large art installation that essentially turns the home into a “sensory experience” by utilizing high-tech equipment to create the illusion of being in space by making use of natural light provided at both sunrise and sunset. The equipment for this experience was not part of the home’s asking price when Murren originally listed it in 2020 but was available for purchase separately; it is unknown if it was included in September’s sale. 

Mr. Murren, who resigned from MGM in February 2020, has stated that he and his wife are planning on remaining in Las Vegas but simply wanted to downsize to a home more suitable for their needs, as apparently Skyspace afforded them more space than was necessary. 

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Remote work, which came to prominence during COVID-19, has remained a work model that is quite popular amongst many individuals even now that the pandemic is officially over, leading to a nationwide decline in the demand for office space; indeed, many metro areas are still reporting high degrees of vacancy and experts expect a hybrid work model to remain the norm for the foreseeable future. 

However, Las Vegas is one of the few major metropolitan areas in the United States that is bucking this trend, with reports indicating that demand for office space in the city continues to remain strong in direct contrast to most other regions in the country. 

Marc Magliarditi, a first vice president at the commercial real estate firm CBRE, notes that while office vacancy is still slightly off from pre-pandemic numbers, the rates of office occupancy in Las Vegas didn’t come close to experiencing the same negative impact that the pandemic had upon other cities, and that demand has been steadily increasing more and more each day. 

Magliarditi contributes that continued growth to numerous factors that are unique to Vegas, such as several professional sports teams recently taking up residence in Southern Nevada; an increasing population; a robust and ever-growing economy; and its greater number of suburban residents when compared to other cities 

We’ve been fortunate here in Las Vegas,” he said. “That demand has been pretty steady, and I would even say strong, post-pandemic.” 

Las Vegas’ business-friendly taxes has also been a draw in terms of filling office space, with numerous companies relocating from California and other parts of the country to do business in the Valley, and the one thing that these companies all have in common – in addition to wanting to save money, that is – is that they all need commercial space to reside in. 

In addition, these companies are investing in new and improved office space in an effort to entice and retain new employees in a post-pandemic work market, currently making Las Vegas office space some of the most sought-after real estate in the country. 

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The real estate sales figures for Las Vegas in the month of September are in, and the median sales price of an existing single-family home in Southern Nevada was $450,000, which is the exact same price it was one year ago in September of 2022. 

The coincidences don’t stop there; the median sales price for condominiums and townhouses in Las Vegas was $270,000 in September, which is once again the same exact price year-over-year. 

These prices were reported by Las Vegas Realtors, and according to the group’s president, Lee Barrett, it’s an example of a degree of stability in the current local housing market that he envisions continuing for the foreseeable future. 

We should probably get used to the current housing market since it’s not likely to change much anytime soon,” he said in a statement. 

Bartlett noted that since March 2022, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates 11 times in an effort to curb skyrocketing inflation; however, those rate increases have not had much effect upon the Las Vegas real estate market, he said. 

Hopefully, some of our national experts are right in predicting that interest rates could begin to come down a bit sometime next year,” Bartlett said. “Even at current rates and with our very tight housing supply, owning a home here in Southern Nevada is a better deal than renting for most people, especially when you consider that homeownership is still one of the best ways to build wealth and financial stability over time.” 

Las Vegas Realtors reports that available housing options are not remaining on the open Las Vegas market for any significant amount of time, with 85.7 percent of homes and 86.3 percent of condos and townhouses that were sold in September only having been available on the open market for a period of time spanning 60 days or less. 

At the end of September, there were 4,066 homes available on the market without any offers, which represents a 49.9 percent decrease year-over-year; as for condos and townhouses, 1,035 were available at the end of the month without offers. 

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LAS VEGAS, NV – According to a new report released by online real estate brokerage Redfin, somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 people relocated from Los Angeles to Las Vegas during the month of August, showing that Southern Nevada is still a very desirable place for people to move to, especially from states with a very high cost of living such as California. 

This impressive number of transplants nonetheless represents a decrease year-over-year; in August 2022, 6,800 people moved to the Las Vegas Valley from Los Angeles. Redfin stated they have gathered this data by utilizing an algorithm that tracks searches made by home buyers in markets outside of their local area, indicating a desire to relocate; this algorithm, according to the company, has a 90 percent success rate in predicting moving behaviors. 

An interesting fact is that while Las Vegas is one of the most popular cities to move to in the country currently – ranked second nationally behind only Sacramento – Los Angeles is actually at the top of the list of cities that people are moving out of.  

Along with Los Angeles, other top cities in the country that people are presently relocating from in large numbers include San Francisco, New York, and Washington D.C., according to the Redfin report; the reasons cited by residents of these cities for leaving include affordability issues, high taxes, crime rates, and the ability to work many jobs remotely becoming more and more commonplace. 

Relocations are holding up better than in-metro moves largely because homebuyers are searching for affordability, and remote work gives many Americans the freedom to move,” the report states. “Nine of the 10 most popular migration destinations have a lower median home-sale price than the most common origin of homebuyers moving in.” 

Currently, according to the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research, the population of Las Vegas is swelling by approximately 115 residents on a daily basis. 

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg, well-known for starring in blockbuster movies such as “Transformers,” “Boogie Nights,” and “Pain and Gain,” has just sold his Las Vegas home just over one year after having purchased it, making an impressive profit in the process. 

In August 2022, Wahlberg bought a 7,327 square-foot, two-story, four-bedroom townhome for $14.5 million in the Summerlin-based The Summit Club, a stylish, private neighborhood catering to affluent families and individuals.  

One month prior to that purchase, Wahlberg had acquired a 2.5-acre plot of residential land for $15.6 million in the same community with the potential goal of using it to construct a mansion from the ground up. 

Just over one year later, the actor sold the townhouse on September 22 for over $16.6 million, netting himself a $2 million return on his investment. However, to date, it is still not known what the plans for the vacant plot of Summit Club land that he owns are. 

The Summit Club describes itself as a “555-acre extraordinary sanctuary” that is nestled between Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and the Las Vegas Strip, located off Town Center Drive south of Flamingo Road. The website goes on to say “The Summit Club is the only private residential lifestyle club community in Las Vegas. Sit back and enjoy five-star amenities, a championship golf course, a robust outdoor pursuits program and unique terrain-to-table culinary offerings.” 

The website also notes a plethora of wellness and recreation programs for residents, as well as snacks-laden golf course “comfort stations” and pickle ball and tennis courts that are adjacent to Wahlberg’s new residence. 

This is not the first expensive property that Wahlberg has parted with recently; earlier this year, he also sold his Beverly Hills Mansion for $55 million after previously listing the property for $87.5 million in 2022. He and his wife had previously purchased the estate in 2009 for $8.25 million. 

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LAS VEGAS, NV – During the mid-2000s recession, numerous families lost their homes to the dreaded malady of foreclosure. And while the housing market has obviously improved significantly since those days, experts are noting that the number of foreclosures nationwide is starting on an upward trajectory once again, with Las Vegas being considered as currently having the highest number of them. 

However, it’s not time to panic just yet, as the current level of foreclosures aren’t even close to approaching those seen during the recession; however, a new report from Attom Data does provide some sobering insight into the current state of the real estate industry, with both Las Vegas and Nevada as a whole placing prominently in it. 

According to Attom Data’s real estate market data analysis, approximately one in every 2,200 homes in Nevada is currently in a state of foreclosure, which is currently the highest rate out of any other state in the country. 

Las Vegas itself ranks 4th in the country among metropolitan areas with over 200,000 residents, with about one in 1,800 homes in foreclosure; the city also ranks first among metropolitan areas with over one million inhabitants. 

However, real estate experts are not sounding the alarm yet, because this is a situation that was anticipated for numerous reasons, the main being that pandemic-era mortgage moratoriums are no longer in effect after a sustained period of time when they were in force following COVID-19 related job losses.  

Current issues caused by the economy and inflation are also contributing to families having difficulty meeting their monthly home payments. 

However, experts note that there is indeed a light at the end of the tunnel, as the Federal Reserve appears to be almost done with the rate hikes they’ve been imposing in order to curb inflation and avoid a potential recession. With that being the case, it is most likely that mortgage rates will start to decrease back to more affordable levels, which should prove to be a large boon to the housing market.  

In the meantime, if you are having difficulty making your housing payments, foreclosure may not be your first option; it is recommended that you look into any programs that your local government or municipality may offer to assist you. 

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LAS VEGAS, NV – With the housing market – both in Las Vegas and nationwide – breeding affordability concerns and pricing many out of the market altogether, buyers have been turning to more affordable options such as townhomes and condominiums. Southern Nevada developers, in turn, have sat up and taken notice, with more of them focusing on building these dwellings in order to produce denser developments and larger returns on their respective investments.

In May 2023, 29.1% of new home sales consisted primarily of townhomes and other such attached products, and this newfound attention from buyers on these housing options are not showing any sign of slowing its current momentum.

Skyrocketing interest rates on home mortgage loans have been the primary factor driving this increased interest in townhomes and condos, as single-family houses are currently outside of many people’s price range. Density in the form of two-story condominium projects are now starting to become a greater emphasis for many developers in the Las Vegas area.

In the first half of 2023, closings for new homes were down 12% year-over-year, with 4,106 single family homes closed on during that span of time. In contrast, 1,237 attached homes were closed on during that same time period, which represents a 6% increase from the first six months of 2022.

Of the new homes sold during the first six months of 2023, 23% of them were attached, including 29.1% in May and 25 percent in June. According to Touchstone Living’s Tom McCormick – one of the main townhome developers in the region – the number of townhomes and condominiums being sold in Las Vegas are on their way to reaching an all-time record high if these trends continue.

I’ve been here since the 1990s, and we’ve never seen it this high.” he said. “It’s about affordability and lifestyle. Land is so expensive and driving housing unaffordability, but with town homes, you can put more homes on the same amount of land. That makes the land cost per home lower and leads to a lower sales price.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – To a novice, there are many aspects of the real estate industry that might remain a mystery to them, and experts say one of the most commonly asked questions they receive are from those inquiring about the differences between a real estate agent and a Realtor, with many people actually believing the two professions are one in the same. There are some very distinct differences, however, and we will briefly touch upon them in this article.

There is actually a large difference between real estate agents and Realtors. Simply put, real estate agents are licensed to buy and sell homes – much the same as a Realtor – but are not members of the National Association of REALTORS®(NAR), with the primary distinguishing factors between the two coming down to the certification, training, and professional standards required by the organization.

Members of NAR are held to a strict set of standards and a code of ethics – over and above what would be expected of a real estate agent – which revolves around the concept of “treating all parties honestly.” The professional standards of the organization are revised on an annual basis in order to incorporate any changes to laws and practices governing the industry, and a Realtor collaborates alongside local Realtor associations, unlike a real estate agent.

To put it in basic terms, not all real estate agents are Realtors, but all Realtors are real estate agents.

Real estate agents are required to take classes and pass a state exam that tests their knowledge of housing laws, sales, and purchases. They are expected to continue to take classes to keep their knowledge current and their license must be renewed every couple of years.

You must already be a licensed real estate agent to become a Realtor, taking the same classes and exams to keep your knowledge base current. However, being a Realtor comes with additional requirements over and above those that are expected of a real estate agent, including having a valid and active real estate license; actively working in the real estate business; having a record clear of official sanctions for unprofessional conduct; not having a recent or pending bankruptcy; and abiding by the professional standards imposed by NAR.

Real estate agents who are able to adhere to those requirements can then become a NAR member, officially making them a REALTORS®.

Abiding by NAR’s code of ethics of treating all parties involved in a transaction as fairly and honestly as possible is what has garnered Realtors the stellar reputation that they enjoy in the industry; it gives the clients and agents you are dealing with the comfort of knowing that you are looking out for their best interests throughout any transaction, and it is why some individuals prefer working with Realtors as opposed to real estate agents.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – While commonplace in many other cities, visitors to the famed Las Vegas Strip will take note of the general lack of individual, freestanding retail storefronts lining the four-mile stretch of roadway; instead, the majority of stores are located either within casino hotels or enclosed malls.  

However, one New York-based developer is looking to change that via two street-facing retail projects, with one recently opened and another currently under construction. 

Developer Eli Gindi – whose family founded and owns the Century 21 retail chain – is behind the under-construction “door on the street” retail property dubbed BLVD located at 3743 South Las Vegas Boulevard. Upon completion, this property will utilize 300,000-square-feet of space to deliver two stories of street-facing retail space, with a 100,000-square-foot rooftop overlooking the Strip offering dining and “hang out” area options for patrons. 

Meanwhile, Project 63 at Harmon Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard is already open for business, offering up 186,000-square-feet of street-facing retail space right next to the upscale The Shops at Crystals, an enclosed mall owned by the Simon Property Group. 

The move to developing street-facing retail on the Strip shows how the area has evolved over the years, with a major sporting component being added to its impressive gambling and entertainment options. With new venues opening nearby – such as the Golden Knights hockey team’s T-Mobile Arena and the NFL Raiders‘ Allegiant Stadium – more and more sports fans are being lured to Las Vegas and, subsequently, the stores nearby their favorite team’s events that they came there to see. 

Additional sporting attractions – including an upcoming stadium for the Oakland Athletics baseball team, as well as the city hosting a Formula 1 race in November – should prove to continue to draw fans to the Las Vegas, resulting in even further retail expansion in and around the Strip. 

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.