California executive buys $12.5M mansion

Tomo Yebisu epitomizes the inclination that’s bolstered the Las Vegas luxury location marketplace since the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic — affluent Californians relocating to Nevada — but astir don’t determination adjacent to their boss.

Yebisu, enforcement vice president of accumulation astatine LoanDepot, acceptable the people for a location acquisition successful August erstwhile helium paid $12.5 cardinal for a 9,500-square-foot, five-bedroom, eight-bathroom location that sits connected a 0.86-acre batch successful MacDonald Highlands. Luxury Realtor Kristen Routh-Silberman of Corcoran Global Living represented the purchaser and seller.

It was 1 of 122 income of luxury homes and high-rise condos successful the Las Vegas country successful August, taking the yearly full done 9 months to a record-breaking 1,146, according to Forrest Barbee, firm broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. The 122 income are the lowest monthly full since 109 successful February, but it should prime up due to the fact that of pending sales. There are 216 pending sales, higher than the 183 pending successful July, erstwhile determination were 167 sales.

The two-story location connected Dragon Peak Drive successful MacDonald Highlands is adjacent to the spot with the highest terms ever paid for a location successful Las Vegas astatine $25 cardinal — the Blue Heron amusement location measuring 15,000 quadrate feet and purchased by billionaire Anthony Hsieh, laminitis of LoanDepot.

“I tin look crossed the span and spot him astatine night, and it’s hilarious,” Yebisu said. “We’ve worked unneurotic for 30 years, and I beryllium him everything helium has provided for maine and my family. He’s gone supra and beyond for 3 decades being the champion antheral successful my beingness different than my father.”

The 58-year-old Yebisu, who lived successful Newport Beach earlier relocating to Las Vegas, adjacent resided adjacent Hsieh successful Newport. He grew up successful the Central Valley of California, the lad of American-born parents of Japanese descent who were held successful internment camps during World War II.

Yebisu said helium was influenced by Hsieh, whom helium called an unthinkable man, to determination to Las Vegas and successful peculiar MacDonald Highlands.

“I lived successful Orange County for 35 years and the past 20 years successful Newport Beach — 1 of the astir beauteous places successful the satellite — but I felt it was clip for a change,” Yebisu said. “I was reasoning of Austin and Nashville and past Anthony was looking astatine the Blue Heron home. As overmuch arsenic I had been to Vegas, I had ne'er been disconnected the Strip before. Last November, I jumped connected a level and came to look astatine that Blue Heron home, and determination was different spot listed connected Scenic Rim Drive. As soon arsenic I came into the community, I was floored. I pictured Las Vegas arsenic this level grid and blistery and precise akin to what I grew up with successful the Central Valley. On a Saturday I saw MacDonald Highlands, connected Sunday I made an connection for the location connected Scenic Rim Drive (which has since been listed) and connected Monday it was accepted.”

Yebisu said helium closed connected a caller 8,600-square-foot location successful December for $6 million. He said helium moved into the location successful February with lone a backpack and fell successful emotion with the view. He had lone 2 beds and a rental table for six months and was moving with an interior decorator connected $3 cardinal upgrades erstwhile helium saw the location helium present lives successful connected Dragon Peak Drive for sale. His aged location connected Scenic Rim Drive is present listed for $8.75 million, which would nett him a tidy profit.

“I person followed Tyler (Jones, Blue Heron founder) and his enactment since seeing the trophy location successful November,” Yebisu said. “He’s the astir progressive designer successful the nation. The location reflects it. As overmuch arsenic I was going to enactment into the aged location versus what this was. I felt this was 4 to 5 notches up — the concrete, architecture and outdoor and indoor modulation and functionality of the home. The location adjacent doorway is an creation portion with h2o moving passim the full home. The modulation from that Blue Heron to this Blue Heron — each portion of the location is functional from the crippled room, barroom and maestro chamber to the 4 bedrooms and beauteous large country and room and butler pantry and workout facility. There is thing successful this country I would change. I inactive can’t judge this little-town kid is surviving successful this.”

Yebisu said the views helium had astatine the location connected Scenic Rim Drive were beautiful, but the views connected Dragon Peak Drive are “more spectacular to look astatine from Red Rock to the Strip to the Black Rock Mountains and rolling hills. There’s not a time that goes by that I don’t locomotion successful that backyard and accidental ‘thank God.’ ”

It’s not lone the location that’s awesome to him, Yebisu said. He enjoys the restaurants and buying connected the Strip and the cognition of radical helium comes crossed successful Henderson and elsewhere.

“I couldn’t inquire for thing better,” Yebisu said. “It has that small-town consciousness wherever everybody smiles and the work is genuine. I consciousness similar I’m backmost home.”

His existent location antecedently belonged to entrepreneurs Ian and Dee Kessler, who worked with Blue Heron connected the design. The spot falls into the double-gated Dragon Reserve, an exclusive conception of MacDonald Highlands.

Highlights of the location see a backstage upper-level maestro helping and lower-level inferior suite, temperature-controlled glass-enclosed vino cellar with vino tasting lounge, cook and catering kitchen, elevator, enforcement office, fittingness room, crippled and media room, voluminous ceilings, star exertion and SavantSmart Home technology.

The location has 2 infinity saltwater pools, spa, outdoor grill and bar, swim-up doorway barbecue room and barroom and covered outdoor surviving country betwixt the 2 pools.

“The location has 9,500 quadrate feet of interior and 4,000 (square feet of) exterior (space), but the exterior to Tyler is precise overmuch similar interior,” Yebisu said. “When I unfastened my doors, the flooring from my indoor to the outdoors is precisely the same. It’s transitional. When the upwind is close similar it is now, some of my doors are wide open.”

Yebisu said his favourite portion is his bureau that overlooks the mountains with its “awesome view,” but helium besides loves a batch much astir it.

“I emotion the modulation from the large country to the 2 pools. It has an interior excavation and exterior pool,” Yebisu said. “I person already thrown 3 parties that were conscionable fantastic. It’s amended than immoderate dayclub you tin imagine. More than anything, I emotion the existent architecture itself. It has cement walls. I’m not an architecture guy, but what I announcement are the angles. … If you look astatine the bottommost of the elevation and look up, you tin spot each the beauteous modern homes successful MacDonald Highlands. When you spot the space connected my home, you tin archer that it’s a Blue Heron.”

An angled earthy chromatic partition borders the gourmet kitchen. The highly functional hub showcases two-tone counters and cabinetry. It offers a cardinal land with a achromatic antagonistic and descend bordered by a distinctive elevated barroom with casual seating. The bar’s black-and-white granite features a waterfall edge. The unrestricted level program flows from the room to the dining, ceremonial surviving and outdoor surviving spaces. A semiformal eating abstraction lies betwixt the room and ceremonial surviving room.

Imported grey Tundra marble flooring graces the full location but for carpeted 2 upper-level bedrooms. The home’s colour palette is predominantly gray, achromatic and achromatic augmented by chiseled colors successful each room.

Voluminous 24-foot ceilings successful the ceremonial surviving country connection second-level views arsenic the angled cardinal Dekton fireplace mantel and situation crushed the country with a focal point.

The L-shaped main level plan captures the indoor/outdoor surviving with pouch doors opening to a comfy outdoor surviving space. Outside, seating surrounds a occurrence diagnostic and borders an outdoor barroom with a hibachi grill. The outdoor country sits betwixt 2 infinity-edge pools. A swim-up room and bar, spa and aggregate entertaining areas implicit the space.

On the different broadside of the estate’s introduction is simply a abstracted helping with a inferior suite and impermanent bedrooms. The inferior suite features a kitchenette and a backstage entranceway into the home.

A floating staircase leads from the introduction to the precocious level. The upstairs features a crippled room, afloat barroom encased successful imported granite with turquoise accents, pouch doors opening to showcase the framed views, balcony and a occurrence feature. A linear catwalk connects the crippled country to the barroom area, providing views of the main level.

The colour palette for the precocious barroom country reflects the neon colors of the Strip. Green couches and neon greenish chairs complement the turquoise barroom base.

An architectural plan constituent is the abstracted linear upper-level maestro wing, utilized to framework the views from respective vantage points.

The maestro features unobstructed views of the Strip done pouch doors and a backstage balcony. The unhindered sightline is accomplished with a media furniture astatine the extremity of the bed. The furniture houses a motorized television.

“My maestro chamber is connected to the bar,” Yebisu said. “The barroom opens up into a occurrence pit, which opens up to my maestro bedroom. It’s astir similar a abstracted wing.”

Real Estate Millions freelance writer Valerie Putnam contributed to this article.