Another short-term rental battle emerges as owners at one Las Vegas condominium learn they are operating a condo-hotel without the proper permits. Read Full Article »

The credit crunch is hitting buyers in Las Vegas hard and some would-be investors now can’t land a loan. Read Full Article »

A recent court ruling in Florida may have a big impact on condo buyers looking to get out of their pre-construction contracts. Read Full Article »

So this is what it has come to. Condo-hotels, over. Condo-motels, hot enough to land a cover story in the New York Times. Read Full Article »

The Halogen Guides network of websites is growing fast, and to better serve our readers we’ve put together a short and confidential reader survey. Read Full Article »

With construction at a standstill, and the developer desperately seeking new financing, RockResorts pulls out of a deal to manage the Chateau at Heavenly Village, a struggling Lake Tahoe condo-hotel. Read Full Article »

Will a combination of recognized name brand and more exotic destinations spell success for Nikki Beach in the condo-hotel game? Read Full Article »

Fed up buyers and possible class action lawsuits. Will the latest challenges to hit the condo-hotel market knock out this once highflying concept? Read Full Article »

The condo-hotel market is struggling, and now some owners may find they are unable to quickly sell their units because of strict clauses in their contracts. Read Full Article »

Luxury developer Capella will offer whole and fractional ownership options at three of its upcoming resorts. Halogen Guides takes a look at what’s for sale and what you’ll pay. Read Full Article »

Second home sales have taken a direct hit in the current real estate market slowdown, according the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) annual survey of investment and vacation home buyers. The realtors group, always eager to put a sunny spin on ... Read Full Article »

The “f” word has reared its head again. Foreclosure rates are up across the country as homeowners are squeezed between falling home values and rising mortgage rates that have made keeping up with monthly payments a struggle for many. ... Read Full Article »

Bal Harbour was founded by Robert C. Graham sixty years ago as a “dream village,” and the community’s small size has never been exploited; developers have long adhered to a philosophy of “quality, not quantity” here, and the result is ... Read Full Article »

At the annual Ragatz Associates Fractional Interest Conference this week, the expected sunny spin on the growth of the private residence club industry was shadowed by a grim reality. First Fractional Funding, a Greenwood Village, Colo.-based mortgage company that ... Read Full Article »

The 1 Hotel + Residences, a luxury condo-hotel project in downtown Seattle, has stopped construction pending a redesign of the building that will scale down the number of condo units in the building, according to an article in the Seattle ... Read Full Article »

Nearly 300 inches of snow have fallen this ski season, and real estate sales of mountain homes and fractional residences remain strong, but the founders of Idaho’s Tamarack Resort couldn’t escape the fallout from the multi-billion dollar French banking scandal. ... Read Full Article »

Wine and mud may seem like odd bedfellows, but in Calistoga, Calif., on the northern edge of Napa Valley, the two go hand in hand. Tourists flock to this corner of wine country to dip themselves in the mineral ... Read Full Article »

Two things that legendary ski destination Telluride has no shortage of are 14,000-foot peaks and luxury vacation home options. With a first-of-its-kind gondola system connecting the historic town of Telluride to the nearby modern resort enclave of Mountain Village, ... Read Full Article »

Think Idaho, and likely the second home hub and celebrity mecca, Sun Valley, comes to mind. But Idaho’s resort living footprint is now expanding to other areas. Most notable is Tamarack Resort, a ski mountain and growing vacation ... Read Full Article »

Florida has been one of the hardest hit states in the U.S. real estate slowdown. Tourism mecca Orlando has suffered accordingly, but is also seeing projects go forward because of the area’s appeal to foreign buyers. This week Orlando ... Read Full Article »

It’s no secret that Costa Rica’s Peninsula Papagayo has become a tourist magnet. Located on the country’s north Pacific coast, only 30 minutes from Liberia’s international airport, the 2,300-acre peninsula is comprised of 15 miles of coastline, 31 distinct beaches ... Read Full Article »

These aren’t easy times for the condo hotel industry. While home prices are dropping and sales of new homes sank more than 26 percent last year, condo-hotel developers have their own host of worries: namely, getting their projects off ... Read Full Article »

These aren’t easy times for the condo hotel industry. While home prices are dropping and sales of new homes sank more than 26 percent last year, condo-hotel developers have their own host of worries: namely, getting their projects off ... Read Full Article »

Dubai is the land of over the top gimmicks, from its vast indoor ski resort to its man-made palm tree-shaped private islands. It’s no surprise then, that two of its newest luxury real estate developments, Damac Heights and Lincoln ... Read Full Article »

Las Vegas is living up to its easy come, easy go reputation. In the home of the eternal optimists (riches after all are just one blackjack hand away) the past week has turned out a mixed bag of news. On the ... Read Full Article »