Club Owners, Chefs and Restaurateurs Looking at Opening a Restaurant in Downtown Las Vegas?! I have Four Properties!

Earlier this month I received a call from an associate real estate agent who has a client looking for sites in downtown Las Vegas to open their restaurant concept. She has a client who owns and operates restaurants who wants to be in a specific area of Downtown.

I sent her ALL the sites I have listed.  Fortunately, I have two properties in this area she is looking at Listed For Sale.

This got me wondering about ALL the things happening in Downtown where Tony Hsieh's Zappos Company is currently moving into the old Las Vegas City Hall building. He is attracting a lot of attention. And, it makes me wonder IF these business people who are following this are truly interested in moving into the downtown east area OR are they thinking of being in a casino along the Fremont Street Experience.  My immediate concern is: will they have enough foot traffic to succeed at the Downtown east locations?

From my perspective, more roof tops or housing is needed.

Tony's crew, lately, has been acquiring property at what I believe is below the normal or median price for this area.  I have advised my sellers to NOT ask too much IF they truly want to sell; rather ask for just more than the norm and under NO circumstance will I allow them to sell to the flippers.

Hopefully, with this inquiry to you today, we may see more activity in the coming months.

AND - just so you know - the area of the Downtown Redevelopment Project is east of Las Vegas Blvd; US 95 south to Charleston; and Las Vegas Blvd to Maryland Pkwy.  Of course, Tony's crew has bought property outside of this area, so anything could happen.

For more Information about any Las Vegas Commercial Investment Real Estate Property, contact David Howes at: davidATdavidhowesDOTnet OR call 70 25 01 93 88

Lots of People Look; Very Few Buy! $300,000 for a Las Vegas Office Building!

Over the past year or so, I have been prophesying that the Las Vegas Commercial Real Estate Market "CRE" was losing it's "steal" muster.

Many of you "looked" at my blog; however, very few of you actually inquired about the steals that were happening. Unfortunately, the good ones have been SOLD.

(There were a few of you that did contact me just to tell me that the "steals" were in your opinion NOT steals because the property prices were still "too high" for you to actually make an offer. Since then, I have booted these people because they would still complain the price was too much even IF the properties were given to them for free.)

And, since then, most of the 8% Cap Rate properties have SOLD! ALL the small sports bars, gaming properties, and the Walgreen's were bought up! When one person was telling me that the prices were NOT steals; and least two were telling me they were.

For example: a recent 7 Eleven property was listed at just less than a hair less than a 7% Cap Rate. I contacted the owner who told me he put it on the market one day; and the next, he had 6 offers that ALL were for MORE than his listed price.

So, IF you ask and I reply by telling you the truth; please do NOT assume I am lying to you. (One Buyer kept telling me I was just lying to him to get him to pay more for a property. Okay. He wanted to offer a price that he felt was a steal and it turned out was the lowest offered to the Owner.)

Then, of course earlier this summer there was the idiot for Brooklyn. He had such a bad attitude. He was going to 'teach me' how to buy property in Las Vegas. In reality, he didn't have a clue as to how to buy a CRE property here in Las Vegas. And, after the debacle where he employed another broker to write a second offer on a property that I had written an offer for him first, I booted him, too. (Unfortunately, since he didn't listen, another client of mine who wanted the same property -- and who did listen to me -- is happily in escrow. The Brooklyn idiot didn't get the property because the owner knows me well enough to have respect for the real estate buying process. (Word to the wise, employ only one broker IF you are seriously considering acquiring a Las Vegas property))

AND, I do know of one property NOT ON THE MARKET that was taken back through foreclosure by the bank.  The Bank is willing to sell a +/-3,400 SF office building at a 10% Cap Rate!
Price: $300,000!
Hmmm? I wonder how many of you will tell me this is priced too high? OR, not enough of a steal?

For more Information about any Las Vegas Commercial Investment Real Estate Property, contact David Howes at: davidATdavidhowesDOTnet OR call 70 25 01 93 88

3 Sold! 7 to Go!

In the last ten months, I've Sold three Downtown Las Vegas Properties. I have seven more listed that are ready to be acquired.

Now, they ain't cheap. But, because they are in the direct and indirect path of the Downtown Redevelopment Project, these will be ripe for flipping or redeveloping them yourself.

Downtown Las Vegas is going to change -- even IF the change continues at a very slow pace. This acquisition area of the Downtown Redevelopment Project will be bringing in more housing, office space and retail. The nightclubs and entertainment area is pretty much covered.

So, IF you dare: I have several parcels which will accommodate various uses. Such as, restaurants, all forms of retail, and especially housing.  And, the need for store front office will come more into demand once the housing is well on its way to being built and occupied.

So, send me an email and I will forward the properties to you that I am talking about.

Two Motels, an Office building, and two small (tear-down) Office buildings, two Duplexes, and an Apartment Building.

For more Information about any Las Vegas Commercial Investment Real Estate Property, contact David Howes at: davidATdavidhowesDOTnet OR call 70 25 01 93 88