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Home Sweet Home
Chris Beucler embraces Vegas homebuilding challenges and rewards
If you follow the red-hot Las Vegas real estate, you may have heard of Blue Heron’s Vegas Modern 001, the most expensive home ever sold in the Las Vegas Valley—$25 million! But you may not know that Blue Heron has a range of boutique communities that also resonate with home buyers. Not only that, it offers plenty of options that will entice a wide range of home buyers. BH Nexus Division president Chris Beucler recently spoke with Las Vegas Magazine’s Nina King about the division and the trends that he’s noticed.
What sets the BH Nexus Division homes apart from other builders and communities, both in Las Vegas and countrywide?
First and foremost, it’s our design. Blue Heron leads not only Las Vegas but pretty much the country in its cutting-edge design. And with that comes our attention to detail, as it relates to all the aspects of the home. ... We offer a completely finished home, which very, very few builders do. And what I mean by that we not only offer the home, but we also do all of the interior finishes for the customer … it’s not a stretch when we would say that if you bought a BH Nexus home and you utilize all our services, you literally could bring your clothes and your toothbrush and move in, and everything would be done …
In new home construction, what kind of trends have you seen since you arrived here?
Well, a (few) things that I’ve seen just not only in Vegas, but across the country, (are) much more efficient building methodologies. … We’re seeing a lot of biophilic design—we’re kind of leading the charge in the biophilic world … The last thing that I’m seeing an awful lot of is a real movement right now on sustainability ….
A lot of those trends are completely encapsulated in the Vegas Modern 001. Are you driving those trends in those Nexus communities here?
Nexus is really all of the Blue Heron DNA. And what I mean by that is the home that you saw in the 001 is an elite home. What we’ve done is take all of the best elements of our elite division … and bring that into our developments. … One thing that we do in the Nexus Division, too, that’s pretty interesting, is we have a lot of what we call structural options. So, as an example, we have a new community where you can get up to nine bedrooms ... We actually offer generational living with dual masters or dual primary suites. In our newest product line, we actually have detached casitas, and those come in several different configurations.
You are breaking ground on several communities. What is one thing that people can look for that sets them apart?
I think the one thing that everybody recognizes the minute that they get involved with Blue Heron, is design is different. It doesn’t look like anybody else’s design. And one of the things that people tend to think with modern is that it’s cold and sharp, but what you find in the Blue Heron, like you found in the 001 house, is it’s actually a very warm and inviting environment for people. To get cutting-edge design along with something that makes you feel good is going to be very appealing to the buyers—and it already has been. We’ve had tremendous success with our last two releases.
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