Las Vegas’ never-boring real estate market didn’t disappoint in 2016. There were plenty of deals, and some were more unusual than others. Here’s my list of the top 10 of 2016.
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It’s a place of abandoned projects, where flashy casinos hemorrhage money, where supersized dreams go to die. All this and more – on the north Strip!
Just as New Year’s Eve revelers begin rolling out of town after next week’s big party, their hotel rooms will be filled with thousands of people who will be gathering in Las Vegas for the 50th CES.
It’s a cinch that if you’re walking the Strip on New Year’s Eve, you’ll come across at least one person toking in the new year with a celebration of the arrival of legalized recreational marijuana in Nevada.
Australian billionaire James Packer has invested a fortune in casinos, including in Las Vegas. But when it comes to building a resort in the heart of America’s gambling mecca, Packer’s plans keep fizzling out.
MGM Resorts International’s $1.4 billion Maryland property opened Thursday night. So how would MGM National Harbor fare if it were plopped down on the Strip? It would hold up quite favorably.
Tourism is a copycat business world with few original ideas so it isn’t hard to look at what airlines have done over the past decade to see the Strip parking correlation.
Las Vegas’ housing market is a far cry from the boom days of a decade ago, but at least one thing is approaching those levels again: new-home prices.
Casino openings excite us because we long to enjoy something we’ve never seen before.
So would you take Team Liquid in a head-to-head World of WarCraft matchup against the Evil Geniuses?
Las Vegas’ housing market got beat up so badly during the recession that not along ago it seemed almost everyone with a mortgage was underwater.
After a great Sunday afternoon at the Bellagio, I recalled that MGM indicated it may revisit parking policies at the end of the year.
New York is on track to collect more casino tax revenue than Nevada this year. If that happens, Nevada will become the No. 3 state in the union for collecting tax revenue from the casinos within its borders
It’s time for Las Vegas to stake a claim on Halloween and turn it into one of those holidays you have to be here at least once in your life.
Landlords are writing hefty checks for rental properties, paying prices that sellers probably only dreamed of a few years ago. Overall in Southern Nevada, investors paid an average of $110,111 per unit for apartment complexes this year by the third quarter, up 53 percent from 2015, according to brokerage firm Colliers International.
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