Hosting charitable fundraisers amid the backdrop of some of the valley’s finest houses is becoming a popular way to support a cause.
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Las Vegas restaurateur Fred Glusman is known for his celebrity-magnet Piero’s Italian Cuisine at 355 Convention Center Drive. For three decades, it has been the neon hub for the city’s elite and their famous guests.
Until last May, rhythm and blues singer Keyshia Cole and her husband, Daniel Gibson, leased an eight-bedroom, three-story house near Horizon Ridge and Green Valley parkways in Henderson.
Driving down the street to the house is almost like driving down a quiet, old country lane with large yards, tall trees, and big houses set way back from the street behind gates.
During 1985, the west boundary of Las Vegas ended at Rainbow Boulevard. Farther west were unpaved trails, indigenous flora and fauna, the Spring Mountains and Red Rock Canyon.
Barry Manilow, who returns to the MGM Grand for a concert this week, spent seven years in Las Vegas during his residencies; one of the homes he lived in has come on the market.
For years, you and your spouse have dreamed of building a custom home that will reflect your lifestyle choices, personalities, desires, hobbies, possessions and interests inside one all-enveloping, spirit-amplifying habitat.
A home known as “The Slammer” is bound to be unique. It stands out on West Wigwam Avenue with its big purple cinderlike structure next to its A-frame design.
Las Vegas’ premier poker couple, Barry and Allyn Shulman, decided to go all in and build a Louis XIV-inspired, three-floor penthouse in the Metropolis, and the result is stunning.
Mark Pordes, president and CEO of Pordes Residential, the sales and marketing company for Veer Towers, estimates that 60 percent of the residences sold are vacation homes.
Gone are the days when building a home personalized to your design tastes are reserved only for custom homes. Semicustom builders and some production-home builders offer designs found in custom homes and lifestyle magazines. They may even be able to enlarge or combine rooms, extend the garage, reconfigure the kitchen layout or create a spa-inspired master bath.
Making changes to a home’s structure is more complicated than asking a builder to pour a larger foundation or to construct walls at different locations because of building permits.
If a man’s home is his castle, Michael Garrett must be Superman, because his house is super-sized.
When developer Rich MacDonald began building the premier homes in the MacDonald Highlands community, nothing like it had been built before in the valley. Nesting homes in a mountain range? Blasting rock formations? Creating roads winding up a mountain range?
It’s rare to have two generations of a family building homes in Nevada, but Cindy Coletti and her son, Daniel, have forged a successful partnership in their 27 years in Las Vegas running Sun West Custom Homes LLC.
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