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.
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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.
Anthem, known as one of the southern most communities in Henderson, located along the foothills of the Black Mountains and south Eastern Avenue, welcomes guests with a picturesque waterfall entrance.
High-end design and luxury high-rise living were focal points of a February education appreciation celebration at the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel-condo within CityCenter on the Strip.
“Behold, the Mojave Desert,” Spanish Trail Country Club marketing director Jeff Drothler jokes, gesturing out over a lush expanse of grass and lagoons dotted with geese, blue mountains rising in the distance.
Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series about the restoration of Liberace’s former mansion at 4982 Shirley St.
“Behold, the Mojave Desert,” Spanish Trail Country Club marketing director Jeff Drothler jokes, gesturing out over a lush expanse of grass and lagoons dotted with geese, blue mountains rising in the distance. Indeed, standing inside Spanish Trail, it’s hard to believe that you’re in Las Vegas at all, and for residents of this gated, 640-acre oasis, that’s the point.
