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Olive Tree Development is a custom home builder serving some of the Las Vegas Valley's most elite communities. We work with a select number of clients at a time, so every home has the full attention of the people building it.
Every project we finish ends with a glass raised: to the homeowners who trusted us, to the trades who showed up every morning, and to a house that will outlast all of us. The olive in the glass carries the whole tree behind it: years of roots, growth and harvest in one small detail. That is how we think about every detail in a house.
Selected work
01Completed home, Las Vegas
A courtyard home in stone, stucco and reclaimed brick: barrel-vaulted brick ceilings over the kitchen, hand-hewn beams, and a walled entry court that keeps the desert at arm's length.
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02New build, Las Vegas
A contemporary estate in stacked stone, steel and wood, built over five years: double-height great room, garden room around a living tree, theater, bar, wine corridor and a palm-lined pool that turns into the main event at dusk.
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How we work
A custom home can take anywhere from two to five years or more. Most of the decisions that matter get made before anyone breaks ground, and after the homeowner moves in. Our work acknowledges both of these truths.
Listen, then look at the lot.
We collaborate with a design team to understand how you live, not with a floor plan. Then we walk the site: building envelope, view corridors, grade, caliche, sun. Budget comes up in the first conversation, honestly.
1 to 4 monthsThe work nobody sees, done right.
We can recommend the architect, engineers and other designers, price the design as it develops, and carry it through the community's architectural review and county permitting. Like roots, none of it shows. All of it holds the house up.
6 to 12 monthsThe house takes shape. So does the relationship.
As we build the house, we are also building a relationship. We work with homeowners to make sure the house and the relationship are both built on a solid foundation.
18 to 36 monthsHand over the keys, then stay.
An olive tree takes years to fruit and then keeps producing for generations. Walkthrough, punch list, manuals, warranties, and then we keep answering the phone, because we build homes for people who intend to stay in them.
OngoingTimeframes vary by project type and size.
A building costs what it costs. Our job is to know where every dollar is being spent.
Eric Liston · Manager
New construction is the core of the work. We take on select renovations and commercial projects.
Each community has its own design review committee and its own guidelines. We have been through them, and we plan around them.
Licensed, bonded and insured in the State of Nevada, with a bench of long-standing trade partners.
Why the olive treeWhy the olive
Longevity is the point of an olive tree, and it is the point of the way we build. Every detail matters because the house has to keep working for decades, not just past the walkthrough.
So when a project closes, we celebrate it properly, with the people who now live there and the people who built it alongside us. Cheers to a successful project is not a formality here. It is the moment a client becomes a lifelong relationship.
And then we keep showing up. That is the part of the build we are proudest of.
An olive tree can take a decade to fruit and then stand for a thousand years. It thrives in exactly the heat and soil that finishes off most other things. That is the standard we build to. An olive tree keeps growing long after it is planted, and we keep answering the phone long after the house is built.
Before building houses, Eric spent years running live shows in Las Vegas, where a cue had to land the same way every night in front of a few thousand people. A custom home is the same discipline, run once: hundreds of trades, one sequence.
We are not a large company and do not plan to become one. We would rather build a few homes well than many homes quickly.
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Every build starts with a conversation. Yours can start here.
6425 Shatz Street
Las Vegas, NV 89115
Nevada State Contractors Board
License 0094789
B-2 Residential and Small Commercial
Monetary limit: Unlimited