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Las Vegas and Henderson Real Estate information provided by a local, full-time, real estate professional and business coach. Get our opinions on Las Vegas and Henderson market data, appreciation, projections, commentaries, lending information, investing, areas of town, builders, homes, land, condos, townhomes, high-rise condos and hotels, lofts, relocating, 1031 exchanges and living in the most exciting city there is. We'll talk about Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Green Valley Ranch, Seven Hills, Anthem, Southern Highlands, The Strip and More.
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Good things to know about the REO-Bank Sale Closing Process:•1.      The Seller- In an REO transaction the Seller is an out of state bank.  The bank contracts a 3rd party asset management company which represents them in the transaction and approves the final escrow closing. All correspondence is...
03/13/2008
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING REO CLOSINGS IN LAS VEGAS, NV My title representative, Valerie Grijalva, from First American Title Insurance Company, gave us this information at our real estate sales meeting yesterday in Las Vegas regarding Real Estate Owned (REO) properties. I'm sure that if Fir...
03/13/2008
 Can you believe February is over already? Things have really been moving along this month in Las Vegas and Henderson for Real Estate. We're noticing the inventory that's been overwhelming for over a year is finally starting to diminish. In fact just in the past week there were 1% fewer homes on ...
03/03/2008
How to Get Your Sellers to Price Their Homes Properly In Today's Market - A Free Class in Las Vegas, NV - Even if You're with Another Broker          *February 29th, 9:45-Noon. Scroll down for location. O'KeefeCasto Residential Brokerage is committed to helping agents, no matter what company they...
02/19/2008
Last week, I heard one of my top agents call to tell his well-qualified, first time home buyer that another offer was accepted on the home he wanted. This is the second time he's had to make that call. They are looking for a newer 3 bedroom home with a 2 car garage in Summerlin. They had offered ...
02/19/2008
Here are some Rules of Thumb for Investing in Real Estate, even in Las Vegas, Nevada: Buy Low (like right now), Sell High. That means hang onto your property until the market bounces back, and it will bounce back. I'm reading anywhere from 18 months to 3 years in the Las Vegas market. We wouldn't...
06/27/2007
Just heard on the news this morning that loan applications are down for the second straight week in a row nationally. This is the lowest it's been in four months, while interest rates seem to be on the rise.Times are tough out there, but I think it's important to remember that real estate is stil...
06/27/2007
I hate to admit it, as I was a die-hard Treo user for the last couple of years, but I just converted to the new BlackBerry Pearl cell phone. Is it ever cool with the little scrolling, back-lit pearl!The BlackBerry Pearl applications are very useful and easy to figure out. The email platform is fa...
06/27/2007
My first baby, Carter, is now 6 months old. Motherhood is more amazing than I could have imagined! Thanks to having a wonderful career like real estate in Las Vegas, I was able to take several months off to take care of my baby boy and begin to figure out how to be a mom. My husband is my busines...
05/17/2007
Yesterday I was 2 days from the closing date on one of our listings in Summerlin in the Las Vegas area of Nevada. The escrow was a 60 day close (which frazzles my nerves to begin with, but we had a non-refundable earnest deposit) and we had taken care of everything the buyer requested. I was at t...
05/16/2007
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Las Vegas and Henderson Real Estate information provided by a local, full-time, real estate professional and business coach. Get our opinions on Las Vegas and Henderson market data, appreciation, projections, commentaries, lending information, investing, areas of town, builders, homes, land, condos, townhomes, high-rise condos and hotels, lofts, relocating, 1031 exchanges and living in the most exciting city there is. We'll talk about Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Green Valley Ranch, Seven Hills, Anthem, Southern Highlands, The Strip and More.