No cheap sunglasses for LVR president 

As real estate agents in Southern Nevada grapple with record-low consumer confidence, deal-killing high interest rates, and nagging inflation, the president of Las Vegas Realtors, George Kypreos, is showing off the fruits of his labor, and reigniting long-simmering allegations of racism in the association.  

“It’s just completely tone deaf,” former LVR board member Shanta Patton-Golar said of a sexually and racially-charged video posted by Kypreos on his social media pages. Kypreos is “not reading the room at all.” 

In the video, Kypreos sports a luxury watch valued at $69,000 (according to the video), $2,800 sunglasses, and shows off his $1,200 shoes, all to a rap beat and repeated use of the N-word. 

Kypreos, Patton-Golar contends, is exacerbating the Realtors’ longstanding struggle to embrace diversity. 

“Discrimination against diverse communities is rampant in LVR,” says Patton-Golar, who was one of 25 real estate professionals to serve on a national commission to address industry discrimination. “It has never been a safe space for anyone who is not white or straight.” 

Kypreos’ actions are “a slap in the faces of staff and members” and is “not only offensive but serves as a clear insult to our minority LVR members who have the least amount of respect from the boardroom and the biggest lack of trust,” LVR member Zar Zanganeh wrote in a letter to the association’s leadership Wednesday prior to a board meeting Thursday. It’s unknown whether the board took action. 

LVR’s board “has paid out millions of dollars because of racist comments and discrimination against Black employees, Black board members, or Latino board members,” says Patton-Gollar, who says she’s not surprised LVR has “never had a Black president in over 76 years of existence.” 

The majority of board members in that time have been white, she adds. “I think there’s been four or five Black people, including myself, who have sat on that board, and we’ve all been removed or retaliated against.” 

Kypreos did not respond to requests for comment on the video, which was removed from his Facebook and TikTok accounts some time Thursday morning. 

Blatant displays of racism and discrimination on the part of real estate professionals, beyond the flouting of decency, “call into question whether you practice fair housing or not,” Patton-Gollar says.   

The video also feeds into the notion that real estate agents are “money hungry” at a time when confidence in the profession is at all time lows, she said. “If I saw the video and I wasn’t in this industry, I would think the same thing. We sell them a $400,000 house and it’s $24,000 out of their pocket to real estate agents, to have us pull up with a $60,000 watch like we’re in a music video.”

Kypreos, she says, “has nothing to worry about. Nothing will happen to him.” LVR, she says, lacks accountability. 

“Just when we believed that LVR leadership could not further diminish public respect and descend to a lower level, you have once again impressed members with a new and shameful low,” Zanganeh wrote, characterizing Kypreos’ video as “blatant, offensive, and racist,”  

Kypreos, a longtime friend of Gov. Joe Lombardo, is a defendant in a national class action lawsuit alleging collusion against Zillow and brokers at the expense of buyers and sellers. 

Zarganeh notes that Lombardo, who is seeking reelection, may face Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Black man, in the general election. The Kypreos video “This “can’t be an easy pill for Lombardo to swallow,” he said. 

Lombardo’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment. 

Kypreos also did not respond to requests for comment on the video, which was removed from his Facebook and TikTok accounts some time Thursday morning. 

Kypreos took the helm of LVR in 2025, when its new president stepped down after just two days amid allegations of election fixing. 

Kypreos was subsequently asked, but refused to step down from office following a vote of no confidence in December. 

This story was updated April 27 with a statement from an LVR spokesman.