Ways to make buying your first home more affordable
 
Ways to make buying your first home more affordable

Owning a home has always been an important part of the American dream, but the reality is homeownership is becoming more difficult to achieve for many Americans.

Las Vegas Review-Journal
 
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Standing inside Spanish Trail, it’s hard to believe that you’re in Las Vegas at all, and for residents of this gated, 640-acre oasis, that’s the point.

Check out the view from luxury community Anthem
 
Check out the view from luxury community Anthem

If you’re searching for a brand-new luxury home in Anthem Country Club Estates on the golf course, you’re pretty much limited to buying a resale; that is unless you look at the 8-year-old, yet never occupied, home at 15 Yorkridge Court.

Historic Las Vegas horse properties on market
 
Historic Las Vegas horse properties on market

The chance to own a 2-acre horse property at a 5,490-foot elevation, 25 minutes from McCarran Airport, doesn’t come along very often in Mountain Springs, a historic community with less than 70 privately owned parcels.

Hilltop resort has room for limo: Auction is this weekend
 
Hilltop resort has room for limo: Auction is this weekend

At the time, the home was “Very period sensitive, a lot of oak with white balusters and bright brass,” Stallings said, adding that a carpenter disassembled and donated parts of the home to Habitat to Humanity before they took out walls, put steel in the roof and “Jacked everything up and opened everything up.”

Realtor: Demand for downtown homes high
 
Realtor: Demand for downtown homes high

Married for 28 years, they owned and remodeled two downtown homes and a cabin on Mount Charleston before his death after an April 2015 car crash on Kyle Canyon Road. She describes Gray as “a Renaissance man” who taught middle school English, ran many successful political campaigns – including President Bill Clinton’s 1996 Nevada drive – and was a skilled construction worker.

What type of loan is used for buying land?
 
What type of loan is used for buying land?

For lenders, land loans are riskier because the loan’s collateral, the property, isn’t being used for housing, at least in the near term.

Resale Home Sales Feb. 16-22
 
Resale Home Sales Feb. 16-22

The address listed is the homebuyer’s mailing address and not the actual location of the resale home.

Designer gives luxury makeover tips
 
Designer gives luxury makeover tips

In April, interior design consultant Tiffany Sparks of Tiffany Sparks Design presented a home makeover workshop held at MacDonald Highlands DragonRidge Country Club.

17,268-square-foot home lists for nearly $7.7M
 
17,268-square-foot home lists for nearly $7.7M

The 4 1/2-minute mini-movie is being used as a marketing tool by the homeowner’s Realtor to try and sell the $7,695,000 home, which spans 17,268 square feet and sits on 1.3 acres at 1187 MacDonald Ranch Drive.

Flapping, snapping flag drives nappers mad
 
Flapping, snapping flag drives nappers mad

Many disclosure forms have a space for sellers to divulge “Neighborhood noise or nuisance.” If the neighbor tells your successor that “You’re as bad as my last neighbor” about the flag, that disclosure will raise a different sort of flag – a red one.

Builders offer design centers
 
Builders offer design centers

Design centers give homebuyers the opportunity to see the different elements that builders offer firsthand.

New developments at Lake Las Vegas
 
New developments at Lake Las Vegas

For starters, the old Falls golf course clubhouse just off Lake Mead Boulevard and Lake Las Vegas Parkway was reopened in January as the Lake Las Vegas Sports Club.

Integrated systems allow for control of home gadgetry by smartphone
 
Integrated systems allow for control of home gadgetry by smartphone

Reddy employed Eagle Sentry and HP Media Group to integrate a Crestron home automation system into a home that already had many automated features, including extensive lighting, media screens, sound systems, water features, motorized shades at multiple windows and motorized sliding glass pocket doors.

Variety of homeownership programs available
 
Variety of homeownership programs available

In what’s being called a game-changer in increasing homeownership rates in Las Vegas, Bank of America has included Southern Nevada in a new loan program to provide free down payment assistance to homebuyers.

IS Luxury squeaks past BHHS in midyear luxury sales
 
IS Luxury squeaks past BHHS in midyear luxury sales

In the latest analysis from BrokerMetrics, which tracks Realtor transactions on the Multiple Listing Service of Las Vegas Realtor association members, IS Luxury, the firm launched last fall by longtime luxury Realtor Ivan Sher placed No. 1 in total volume of luxury transactions between January and June.

Homeowners say HOA is doing things right
 
Homeowners say HOA is doing things right

Nearly all of your responses seem to be to complaints about real or perceived homeowners association board member abuses, unfair charges or fees, covenants, conditions and restrictions questions or infractions, legality of board decisions and the like.

Designer Bobby Berk partners with Tri Pointe
 
Designer Bobby Berk partners with Tri Pointe

“Design Forward interior collections reflect the mission at Tri Pointe Homes to inspire and uplift customers, team members and communities through beautiful, intentional design,” said Berk in an email.

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