Tips for Keeping your House Warm without Burning a Hole in Your Pocket

  The winter months mean celebrating the holidays, reconnecting with family and friends and planning your resolutions for the New Year. They can also mean a sharp increase to your monthly heating bill in order to stay warm and comfortable. If you’re interested in controlling your energy expenses while maintaining comfort, the tips below will […]

5 Reasons Why It Makes Sense to Buy a Home Now

 Many of the critical factors for a recovery in housing prices are in place. The drop in housing prices, coupled with the current low mortgage interest rates has brought affordability back into alignment with historical ranges in most markets. Unemployment levels appear to have bottomed out, and a growing number of real estate economic indicators […]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from our homes…. to yours

May you have a wonderful holiday season! From your Realtors at New Home Resource:   Joanna Piette, Denise Moreno Thrasher, Evelyn “Beng” Kern, Jessica O’Brien, Lance Partin and Kathy Paterniti.

3 Easy Holiday Shopping Strategies

Thanksgiving comes late this year, which means a shorter-than-usual holiday shopping season. If you’re not the type to buy gifts throughout the year, getting an early start on holiday shopping can help ensure you have enough time to find gifts for everyone on your list, and perhaps, most importantly, save money. Here are three things […]

A Home For The Holidays

The holidays are near and we’re spreading the cheer with some simple decorations that can brighten up your home for the holiday season. For your windows, hanging wreaths with red-berries or lights can brighten up the room and can be used all year long! It’s a cost-efficient way to showcase large windows and the front […]

Are Dated Appraisals Holding Back the Recovery?

Are Dated Appraisals Holding Back the Recovery? By Andrew King Some of the most beaten down real estate markets are finally experiencing that long-awaited bounce back from the crash. Cash offers are yielding more sales. Pent-up demand is driving prices higher. But something’s missing. Brokers in the faster markets, such as Nevada, California and Florida—where […]

Most Common Fall Home Improvements for Homeowners This Season

With over half of all homeowners planning to make some type of improvement to their home this year, the question is:  What exactly are they changing? Homeowners are choosing to wait until the high temperatures break and cooler weather hits to begin outdoor work, and home improvement companies are looking to unload new products to […]

Tips and Tricks for Planning the Perfect Halloween

Planning the perfect Halloween can be pretty spooky, and it’s not just because of the ghosts and ghouls that run from door to door. Coordinating Halloween activities, planning a festive party and pulling off the perfect costume for each family member can be frightening. But with a few technology tricks, you’ll be rewarded with a […]

How to make your home energy efficient

In a world with soaring energy costs and warmer temperatures, more and more people are looking to make their homes more energy efficient and therefore ‘green’. Many people don’t know where to start or are overwhelmed with what needs to be done.   What are the benefits of making your home energy efficient? You are […]

Update on Las Vegas Real Estate

Happy Holidays!   There has been quite a bit going on in our marketplace today, from even further constraint in available housing, to increased NOD filings, to even higher sales prices in recent months. A little bit of history……   In August 2009, Clark County saw a whopping peak of 11,482 filings of Notices of Default.    The […]