Summerlin residents were recently treated to the 8th annual Summerlin Circus! The show was performed four times last weekend to give everyone in the Summerlin community a chance to attend. One of the amenities of Summerlin real estate is The Summerlin Council, which is the non-profit arm of the Summerlin Community Association. The Summerlin Council was responsible for staging the circus and works hard year around to put together great social, sports and recreational activities throughout Summerlin Nevada.

Del Webb will begin to compile an interest list today for Shadow Canyon, a collection of 511 Henderson real estate sites that run along the eastern edge of Sun City Anthem. With vistas of the city below and the mountains beyond, the Shadow Canyon neighborhood offers dramatic shifts in elevation, placing these home sites in a league of their own. These beautiful Henderson homes are planned for delivery in late 2005. The Anthem master-planned community is home to The Revere Golf Club, which offers two courses, and Anthem Hills Park. Sun City is anchored by the 77,000-square-foot Anthem Center recreational facility.

Las Vegas is throwing down a red hot club party, but you won’t find it anywhere in the valley. Would you believe South Beach Miami….in a mansion? To better promote this city as a center of world-class nightclubbing, the operators of 14 local clubs have joined with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to host a $45,000-plus party in South Beach for more than 1,000 VIPs. Invited guests include Chris Rock, Charlize Theron, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston. The event will feature acts from Cirque du Soleil and music from popular local disc jockeys. It was timed to coincide with Miami’s annual Winter Music Conference, a 40,000-attendee gathering that attracts celebrities from around the world. MS Las Vegas Real Estate keeps telling everyone that Las Vegas is a real city….and you can’t name one real city in America that doesn’t have a hot nightclub scene. Ours is no exception!

MS Las Vegas Real Estate is determined to convince the world that the new Las Vegas is completely different from old-school expectations. Culture plays a significant role in our development as a real city and this art exhibit is but one example. The Las Vegas Art Museum opens its latest exhibit, “XV Santa Fe Artists,” this Saturday. The museum is located within the Sahara West Library complex. There are 125 paintings by 15 Santa Fe artists featured in the exhibition curated by James Mann. The artists are Jo Basiste, Dennis Flynn, Paulette Frankl, Joel Greene, Whitman Johnson, Zara Kriegstein, Geoff Laurence, Trevor Lucero, David Mauldin, Jack Sinclair, Fred Spencer, Mark Spencer, Jody Sunshine, Jerry West and Michael Wright. “The exhibition aims to be completely groundbreaking,” Mann says. “It is not meant to be a representative survey of art being made in Santa Fe today, but rather to frustrate ordinary expectations of what `Santa Fe’ art is at the present time.”

More than 5,000 theater owners and industry professionals attended the 31st edition of ShoWest, the feature performance this week at Paris and Bally’s on the Las Vegas Strip. ShoWest is a trade show for the Hollywood film industry that allows movers and shakers to mix and mingle. Numerous awards were also given out at the four day event. Jennifer Aniston won the award for Female Star of the Year while Matt Damon won for best male. George Lucas was on hand to receive the Galactic Achievement Award for obvious reasons. Rumor has it that quite a few rounds of golf were played this week on some of Las Vegas’ best courses….which just happen to be surrounded by some of the very best Las Vegas real estate.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is having its annual “Celebrate Spring” event from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. this Saturday in the Gardens at the Springs Preserve. “Celebrate Spring” is full of activities to help you discover the fine art of landscaping for your Las Vegas home. Learn how to save water and money while keeping you garden green with a landscape upgrade or an irrigation system tune-up. You also can find out how to grow, cultivate and harvest gourmet herbs and sweet, juicy tomatoes. The event offers nine classes and six demonstrations to get you ready for springtime yard work. Las Vegas is a real city! MS Las Vegas Real Estate continues the process of educating people about the new Las Vegas…..and what it means in terms of lifestyle to own Las Vegas real estate. Most people don’t even realize that you can have beautiful landscaping for your Las Vegas home in the desert!

One month before Steve Wynn makes his comeback on the Las Vegas Strip with Wynn Las Vegas, plans are already being made for a second high-end resort development. The new Encore resort is intended to be the most luxurious hotel in Las Vegas. Each Encore suite will contain a separate living room and bedroom in a sprawling 1,030 square-foot layout. At 230 square feet, the bathrooms alone are roughly the size of many New York hotel rooms. Other amenities for Encore will include restaurants, convention and meeting space, high-end retail, a spa-salon and entertainment venues. The incredible rise in the value of Las Vegas real estate on the strip played a significant role in the decision to move forward with this second casino resort according to company officials. Wynn Las Vegas, the Strip’s first new resort in five years, will open with 2,716 rooms and suites, 111,000 square feet of casino space, 18 restaurants, about 223,000 square feet of meeting space and other amenities, including an on-site Ferrari and Maserati dealership.

Insanity is the fourth Stratosphere Tower thrill ride installed at 900 plus feet above the Las Vegas Strip! The Insanity experience is designed to give people the feeling of hovering unrestrained 906 feet above the pavement. A giant green and purple “arm” extends passengers 64 feet from the Stratosphere observation deck, then spins them in a circle at speeds as high as 45 mph. The motion creates centrifugal force, which pulls the 10 passenger seats out to the point where people are nearly horizontal to the ground below at an angle of about 70 degrees. MS Las Vegas Real Estate highly recommends that you do the Insanity ride at night. The Las Vegas valley views from Summerlin all the way to Henderson are much more dramatic, and less people will see you throwing up!

A modest increase in home mortgage rates over the past month hasn’t dampened builder enthusiasm in the market for new single-family homes, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). The confidence gauge remained unchanged in March from an upwardly revised reading of 69 in February. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index is derived from a monthly survey of builders that NAHB has been conducting for nearly 20 years. On a regional basis, the index gauging builder confidence in the Northeast rose six points to 74 in March, while the index for the West rose four points to 83. Builders in the South posted a one-point HMI decline to 73, while builders in the Midwest ? where the job market remains relatively weak ? posted a two-point decline to 53. As a member of the western region, Las Vegas real estate market conditions continue to be reflective of the regional data.

Builders broke ground on new homes at the fastest rate in 21 years last month, the federal government reported Wednesday, maintaining the feverish rate of new construction seen over the last few months. The U.S. Commerce Department reported that housing starts rose 0.5% in February to a seasonally adjusted 2.195 million annual rate, the highest level since February 1984. The February advance came amid expectations that housing starts would taper off after significant gains in recent months. January housing starts were revised higher to show a 6.2% increase, while starts in December had risen by 14%. Building activity in the Las Vegas real estate market remains brisk to say the least.

Christopher Homes has released two Las Vegas homes for sale in The Enclave, a gated neighborhood of Las Vegas luxury real estate within the guard-gated Southern Highlands Golf Club. Both residences were designed by Scheurer Architects, a firm that was commissioned to create a unique home for each of the 16 lots in The Enclave, which is located in the Southern Highlands master-planned community. The newly released Las Vegas luxury homes measure about 5,700 and 6,200 square feet and are priced at $2 million and $2.2 million, respectively. This is a stunning new addition to the market for Las Vegas golf real estate in Las Vegas.

The International Astronomical Union has officially listed asteroid LV6, a galactic rock in elliptical orbit around the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Of course the LV stands for Las Vegas! The Las Vegas Centennial Celebration Committee sought to name the asteroid to commemorate the city’s 100 years of existence. The naming was confirmed by the committee on Monday. Let’s hope that LV6 stays in orbit and doesn’t end up landing on a prime piece of Las Vegas real estate!

Siena Golf Club provides both a picturesque backdrop and a premier recreational opportunity for residents of the Siena master-planned community, an age-qualified village of Summerlin homes. The 6,816-yard, par-72, daily-fee course winds its way through the village, which is near closeout. With almost 33 percent of the Siena Las Vegas homes located along the golf course, the Siena Golf Club is one of the big reasons buyers purchase Las Vegas real estate in Siena. Las Vegas golf real estate at Siena offers a range of customizing opportunities, including select plans with courtyard fireplaces and casitas with separate entrances.

McCarran International Airport last year moved up one position into sixth place on a federal ranking of the nation’s busiest airports. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics said last week that Las Vegas’ primary airport handled nearly 19.3 million domestic enplanements in 2004, up more than 14.5 percent from the prior year’s 16.8 million. The increase pushed McCarran ahead of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International, which fell to seventh place after ranking fifth in 2003. Las Vegas Nevada continues to be a city on the move and Las Vegas real estate continues to be a direct reflection of that process.

The architecture, lot sizes and casitas offered by Distinctive Homes is enticing Las Vegas luxury home buyers to its gated Taos Estates neighborhood in the northwestern Las Vegas valley. Each Las Vegas home includes a 442-square-foot casita, as well as a three-car garage, granite counter tops in the master bath, oak stair railings, ceramic-tile in the entry, kitchen, laundry room and baths, and a fireplace in the living or family room. The 4,658 model is a two-story plan with five to seven bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths, formal living and dining rooms, family room, library and entry courtyard which may be converted to an optional guest suite. Cobblestone driveways and walkways complement these Las Vegas luxury real estate designs.

Carina Homes has begun presales at its first Green Valley real estate development. Lamplight Square is actually a Green Valley Ranch real estate community which will be comprised of 64 Henderson homes on the northwest corner of Green Valley Parkway and Coronado Drive. Green Valley is a popular residential community in Henderson Nevada that continues to evolve as a popular place to live and work. It is an ideal location for a Lamplight neighborhood that provides a high quality of life created by abundant amenities. Lamplight Green Valley Ranch homes will range from 1,930 to 2,251 square feet. Prices start from the mid-$300,000s. MS Las Vegas Real Estate has over 10 years of experience in the Henderson real estate market.

Pardee Homes introduces the latest addition to Henderson real estate. Terrazzo is the builder’s new neighborhood within the MacDonald Ranch master-planned community in Henderson Nevada. Terrazzo offers well-appointed Henderson homes in the well established community of MacDonald Ranch. The neighborhood will have just 40 Henderson homes, allowing buyers the opportunity to live in a small, upscale community in one of the most popular master-plans in the Las Vegas Valley. Every Terrazzo home will be Energy Star certified and built on lots averaging about 6,600 square feet. Greater Las Vegas real estate has been greatly improved by the MacDonald Ranch community.

Single-story Las Vegas homes are showcased in Pulte’s Salerno neighborhood within the Aliante master-planned community. Aliante is a feature community that highlights the residential growth and potential of North Las Vegas real estate. Three available floor plans range from 1,671 to 1,900 square feet and are priced from the $320,000s. Each design features three bedrooms or two bedrooms and an optional den, two baths, 9-foot ceilings, and walk-in closets in the master suite. The neighborhood is surrounded by trails that connect it to the 15-acre Aviary Park. MS Las Vegas Real Estate is your guide to all that Aliante North Las Vegas homes have to offer.

Summerlin’s growing population has delighted the retailers who account for more than 1.5 million square feet of space in the Summerlin master-planned community. Kevin Orrock, executive vice president of The Howard Hughes Corp. (developer of Summerlin) said retail development is planned for years to come. “Within the next few years, retail space in Summerlin is expected to double,” he said. Summerlin real estate continues to grow at a rapid rate….commercial as well as residential! These are some of the most beautiful Las Vegas homes in the entire valley.

Kyle Busch is a Las Vegas local and a member of the Durango High School class of 2002. He is also an impressive rookie race car driver on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit and his older brother (Kurt) is the reigning NASCAR champion. But on Thursday of this week Kyle was on hand at Spring Valley High School to give safe driving advice to impressionable teens. Kyle’s words of wisdom? Street racing is stupid and dangerous, don’t ever drink and drive, cellular phones are a dangerous distraction, and focusing on the stereo instead of the road is not recommended. MS Las Vegas Real Estate would like to thank Kyle for taking the time this week to make a difference in the local community.

According to the National Association of Realtors, the median price of an existing single-family home was $189,000 in January, up from $171,000 a year earlier. The median price of a re-sale Las Vegas home was $250,000 in January, up from $183,000 a year earlier. Real estate in Las Vegas has consistently out-performed over the past 12 months.

Pulte Homes’ Dunbar Collection at Anthem Highlands comprises three two-story Las Vegas home designs within the Anthem master-planned community in Henderson Nevada.Las Vegas real estate in Anthem Highlands features a great location, community amenities and small-town atmosphere that make it such a successful and sought-after place to own Las Vegas homes.The collection’s homes measure 1,629 to 1,923 square feet, and are priced from the low $300,000s.

The market for Las Vegas real estate is taking another step forward in quality. Pulte Homes and Del Webb have spent months developing the Nevada Area Elite Contractor program so they could share the companies’ award-winning custom service practices with their contractor partners. The goal is to ensure that each Las Vegas home buyer receives the same level of service not only from the Las Vegas home builder but the contractors as well. The first class was held recently at The Revere at Anthem. In addition to teaching the class, customer relations employees Monica Diaz, Denisse Calvo, Alfredo Soto and Ryan Brunson gathered all of the materials, translated the Leader Guides and created the presentation in Spanish.The builder offers 19 Las Vegas new homes subdivisions in Southern Nevada, including Amber Ridge in Henderson Nevada; Westchester Hills in the southwest; Silverstone Ranch and Wyeth Ranch in the northwest; Treviso, Pavona, Salerno and the Terrasini condominiums in Aliante; and Cordova in Summerlin.

The creation of the euro in 1999 is driving European real estate bargain hunters to the U.S. in droves. The euro has risen about 10% against the dollar in the last year and more than 50% in the last three years. Meanwhile, the British pound is up about 35% from three years ago and about 5% in the last year. The weakness of the dollar has suddenly made the dream of owning a second home in the U.S. financially realistic for many Europeans. The trend has been strong in certain markets especially. Among them are Florida, New York City, California and Las Vegas homes. There’s no question that the market for real estate in Las Vegas is benefiting from overseas investment. High-rise Las Vegas real estate in particular has seen a large influx of foreign investors.

The Southern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross is getting ready for it’s annual golf fund-raiser. This year the host course is TPC Summerlin Las Vegas. This is the same golf course that hosts the PGA Tour every year for the Las Vegas Invitational. The Luxury Las Vegas real estate on the TPC Summerlin course provides a fabulous view of both tournaments. My guess would be that the windows in these beautiful Las Vegas homes are at somewhat more of a risk during the Red Cross tournament. It’s all for a good cause and besides, that’s what homeowners insurance is for! All proceeds raised by the event will assist the Southern Nevada Chapter of the Red Cross in it’s important work throughout the community. It’s not too late to get your foursome signed up! The golf tourney is scheduled for April 18th.