Press Release Newswire is reporting The Third Annual Las Vegas Symposium on Constructing, Financing, Developing and Operating Condo-Hotels and Branded residences is being held December 3-4, 2007, at The MGM GRAND Hotel and Casino.

Organized by The Information Management Network (IMN) to better equip finance and commerce investors---over 600 builders, owners, developers, analysts and financial lenders both nationwide and internationally will exchange knowledge on today's condo-hotel market.

Las Vegas real estate expert, Paul Murad, will lead a Round table Session answering this and other relevant questions. Plus, Paul will chair the panel on the Las Vegas Market, which will include speakers Mark Birtha, Vice President of Marriot International Lodging Development, and Anthony Pearl, Vice Presient and Associate General Counsel of Harrah's Entertainment, among others. The panel will address the changing market, how to launch a successful condo-hotel project, the benefits of buying a condo-hotel unit, demographics and projected Las Vegas market trends.

Strangely, I have a thought or two on the downturn of condominium sales which aren't related to the obvious credit crunch that seemed to take the "experts" by surprise. Maybe some people--like me--refuse to buy an albatross--I mean condo--where they are stuck living next door to other people without adequate insulation to block obnoxious smells, loud music, while enjoying poor construction with the added pleasure of being forever beholden to an association run by people lower on the evolutionary scale than school board members.