Aliante, a master-planned community in North Las Vegas’s every aspect has impressed visitors and residents. The wonderful location and well-designed homes and the great amenities for residents including parks, trails and recreational features has attracted scores of people from diverse backgrounds to come and settle down in Aliante. People of every lifestyle, age and cultural background have made Aliante their home.

Spread over an expansive 1,905 acres, the community is home to an all-ages village and an age-qualified village called the Sun City Aliante. Together these villages will have as many as 7,500 homes and about 20,000 residents.

Pulte Homes, Astoria, Del Webb, D.R. Horton, KB Home, Lennar, Pardee and US Home have all developed exclusive designs for Aliante and have offered a diverse variety of floor plans to suit the varying needs of people who wish to settle in Aliante. Homes in Aliante are priced from the high $100,000s to the high $600,000s.

A new hotel, condo tower and casino complex is planned for Harmon Avenue east of the Strip. It will be located close to the Koval lane and is a joint venture big name like actor George Clooney, investor Randy Gerber, Related Las Vegas and Central Properties.

Named the Las Ramblas, the 3 billion complex will include 11 towers with luxury hotels, condos, stand alone bungalow units, and condo-hotel - new concept taking over Las Vegas. When completed the complex is planned to include 300 hotel units, 2,764 condo units, 1,326 condo-hotel units and 19 bungalows. The host of amenities for the residents and visitors will include spas, health clubs, restaurants, shopping, nightclubs and casino spread over 25 acres. An open air promenade for pedestrians will complete the picture.

Residents can utilize the complimentary covered valet parking, a doorman, 24-hour concierge and 24-hour security services and will have access to spa and fitness center, as well as locker rooms with steam, sauna and whirlpool.

Prices are set to start at $600,000s and go up to several million dollars. The condos will offer one, two and three bedroom homes with as many baths. All homes will have balconies. The condo-hotel units will feature studio units apart from one, two, three bedroom plans.

Located at Las Vegas Boulevard and Serene Avenue - Boca Raton Communities - will be ultimate in amenities. The community will feature four seven-story buildings comprising a total 756 units. Floor plans range from 593 to 2,400 square feet with one to three bedrooms.

The amenities will include 24-hour concierge service, a Strip and airport shuttle, and several pet stations. Animal lovers and pet owners will find the pet stations extremely useful when they go out of town. A 10,000-square-foot clubhouse, two resort-style pools, spas, and trails are also planned for the community.

According to the developers each floor is unique and has several features benefiting people with varying tastes. The sales staff will help buyers choose the plan that best suits the needs of the home buyer. Prices for the homes at Boca Raton start from $300,000 and the first phase of 172 homes is expected to be completed by fall of 2006

Mountain Falls Golf Community in Pahrump is centered on golf. The upscale neighborhood for golf lovers is centered on the 18-hole golf course. The Mountain Falls Golf Club is delight to play and residents enjoy many privileges.

The developers are going the whole hog to develop a complete golf lover’s paradise in Pahrump. A huge 2,000 square foot golf shop is planned just opposite the clubhouse. The Clubhouse is another recreational filled amenity packed center for the residents with swimming pools, fitness centers and water parks and will be opened by the year end.

The Mountain Falls Golf community is also very dedicated to environment and has decided to use electricity based golf carts instead of gas driven ones. The green grass, the natural springs, the fresh air means that golf course is not only place for recreation but relaxation and refreshing for the mind and the body. The views of the surroundings and the mountains are enchanting and residents will enjoy it whether they are playing or just watching the game.

Henderson has a new neighborhood - Avellino. An offering of the Rhodes homes - the Avellino will offer buyers innovative and spacious homes. The neighborhood is one of the several neighborhoods comprising of 7 planned villages and all will linked by a road after the construction is completed.

Buyers of the Avellino neighborhoods homes will have a choice of 8 floor plans each having from 3-5 bedrooms and 2 to 4 and half bathrooms. Located around the Tuscany Golf Club a total of 2000 homes are planned for this neighborhood. A recreation center is also planned but construction will start only in 2006.

Rhodes Homes has several projects on the floor around the same area - La Luna, Montebello, La Piazza with homes of different areas. Rhodes Homes is much respected name and has built over 6,500 homes around Las Vegas. They are known for their quality construction and some extraordinary interior designs for homes.

A new housing complex ex expected to come up on the former Ernie Cragin Annex 3, which housed 54 housing units, built in 1970. The constructed on the new project is expected to begin March, 2006 and is expected to be completed in 2007.

The project will come up on 8.13 acres of land, located at East Charleston Boulevard and Honolulu Street. To be constructed with the help of $8 million from federal funds, $7.5 million from tax credits and $1 million from housing authority reserve fund.

The new ones homes will replace the old units which were neither energy efficient nor modern and were in dire need of repairs. One more advantage with the new plan is that there will be place for increased number of units and many recreational facilities for the families. It will have multi-family duplexes with attached garages.

Apart from senior citizens there are more than 500 families waiting for public housing. Continued growth in Las Vegas and the increasing demand for public housing is set only to increase in the coming years.

Ivana Las Vegas is located on the northeast corner of the Sahara Avenue and the Strip. It’s Brand name and its design has created flutter among the people but many real estate analyst have doubts about the viability of the project due its location. As the location does not have any new developments at present, people have to be convinced about the positive aspect of the project and the location in order to make them purchase these units.

Ivana, Trump’s former wife believes that the site of Ivana Las Vegas is the best and the tower will dominate the skyline of Las Vegas because there won’t be any high–rise project next to this project because of its proximity to the McCarran International Airport. Association of Ivana’s name to the project has made sales easy despite of its location. Ivana the luxury high-rise will be one more star in Las Vegas High Rises

Las Vegas has seen an upsurge in the value of condo has been seen since 2001. The median price of single family home was comparatively lesser than the condo. The median price of the single home in June this year was $218,600 while a condo sold at $223,500.the appreciated value of the condo for the period 2001-2004 was 57% while that of the traditional homes was only 25%.

Smaller cities like Omaha, neb, Minneapolis are also experiencing the condo boom. Single parent, divorcees, and single professional consider condo living luxurious as well as convenient when compared to the traditional house with the lawn. In order to make money through the condo boom people are speculatively buying condos, which in turn increases the price of these condos. Economic principles are not strong enough to support this sudden increase in the prices.

In the past five years, constructions on about 802,000 condos were started around the country. Construction of 270,000 condos was started this year and in 2006 an estimated 255,000-condos will be constructed.

Real estate investors are into condo flipping in Las Vegas. Condo flipping can become a pitfall for them if they don’t consider all the financial liabilities and tax payments that come along with the real estate investment. They look up to condo flipping for the long-term capital gains, forgetting the cost involved in the buying, refurbishing and selling the condos. They predict tax of 15% or less on the investment, which is not the case.

In Las Vegas more than 6000 apartments are being converted into condos and about 40,000 mid-rise and high-rise luxury condos are coming up. Las Vegas is considered as one of the emerging condo market in the world. There was an increase of $10,000 in the median price of the houses in July 2005. The high-rise units, which were earlier priced at $200,000, were being sold for $500,000 now. Celebrities who lend their name to many Las Vegas condo projects are given condos, which they could sell at a later stage.

Painted Desert Homes is located in northwest Las Vegas off the Ann Road and Interstate-95. It’s about 25 minutes northwest of the Las Vegas Strip. Built in the early nineties and are prettily placed around the first desert-target golf course. Designed by Jay Moorish in 1987 the golf course has lush, mature landscaping.

It is a guard-gated community and is a treat to eyes with lush landscaping. Homebuyers have a choice of homes including condos, villas along stately tree lined avenues with the spectacular mountain views. The amenities featured include resident’s only pools, tennis courts, golf courses, clubhouse and other facilities. Some of the Painted Desert Homes even have a grand view of the golf course.