Las Vegas home prices set a record high yet again last month, and sales totals grew as the valley’s housing frenzy showed no signs of cooling.
Eli Segall
Reporter: Real estate
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Eli Segall joined the Review-Journal in August 2016 after covering real estate and other business topics for four years at the Las Vegas Sun. He also worked for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, The Associated Press and other news groups. Segall has a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland. His awards include 2017 Story of the Year from the Nevada Press Association.
Former NBA player Jackie Robinson has filed necessary agreements to keep his long-delayed arena and hotel project plans in the works, after Clark County leaders gave him an ultimatum last fall.
The state saw a 52.8 percent increase in initial claims filed for the week ending March 27, according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
Dapper Companies founder J Dapper closed his $4 million acquisition of the long-shuttered Las Vegas property and will spend the next three years renovating it.
Las Vegas’ jobless rate moved lower in February but remained well above other areas of Nevada.
The biggest jump in Las Vegas housing prices, 20 percent, was in the area around Sahara Avenue and Jones Boulevard, data shows.
Blackstone Group, a large firm with heavy investments on Las Vegas Boulevard, is looking to snap up the Australian casino operator Crown Resorts.
The city of Las Vegas wants to sell its nine-story office building at 333 N. Rancho Drive, saying it has an appraised value above $17 million.
Nevada recovered more jobs last month as it continues the trek back from sky-high unemployment in the pandemic’s early days.
Southern Nevada homebuilders last month saw the most sales activity in well over a decade.
Developer Steve Witkoff and Howard Lorber, chief executive of cigarette maker Vector Group, are looking to raise $250 million for a yet-to-be-determined real estate tech venture.
Construction crews are grading land, installing underground utilities and doing other work for Haas Automation’s 2.5 million-square-foot plant south of Henderson Executive Airport, a project manager said.
The SLS Las Vegas opened with much fanfare in 2014 but quickly spiraled downward. Now, a few miles away, Las Vegas’ newest renovated resort figures it’s starting out on stronger footing.
An estimated 9.9 percent of the valley’s workforce was unemployed in January. Only one other metro area with a population of at least 1 million has a higher unemployment rate.
Richard “Boz” Bosworth, president and CEO of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas’ ownership group, spoke with the Review-Journal about the purchase of the hotel, the renovations and the pandemic.
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