Articles 73–96 of 826, newest first. Every guide is written by Chris Nevada and the Nevada Real Estate Group team. Search the whole blog.
Reno's housing baseline runs $347 per square foot against Las Vegas at $261 — 33% more before a single golf premium is added. We measured every major golf community in both markets the same way, and only one of them lets you buy on a fairway below the city median.
Across 4,481 active Las Vegas listings under $500,000, 34.4% have already cut their asking price — and homes sitting past 120 days have cut more than twice as deep as fresh ones. Here is where the genuinely cheap homes are, and how to tell a real deal from a bad house.
A Henderson builder is advertising a 7/6 ARM starting at 3.99% on homes from the $429,000s. That rate is real, and so is the year-seven reset almost nobody does the math on. Here is the Bennett plan at Carlton in Cadence, walked room by room, with the financing question answered honestly.
Search Nevada squatters' rights and you will find one source saying five years and another saying fifteen. Both miss the clause that decides it. Under NRS 11.150, adverse possession requires five continuous years AND payment of every property tax bill for that period — which is why almost no squatter claim in Nevada ever succeeds.
Fannie Mae is raising the condo reserve requirement from 10% to 15% of assessment income, and it already retired the Limited Review that most Las Vegas condo loans quietly relied on. Here is which buildings break, what the association budget has to show, and how to check a project before you write.
Colorado River water cannot irrigate nonfunctional turf in Southern Nevada after December 31, 2026. Most valley homeowners think that means their front lawn. It does not — and meanwhile the enforcement itself is being fought in federal court as a class action nobody is reading about correctly.
Nevada quietly deleted three words from its real estate code, and a handshake with an agent stopped being an agreement. Since October 1, 2025, an oral arrangement is not a brokerage agreement at all under NRS 645.005 — here is what that actually means for Las Vegas buyers, sellers, and the commission at the end.
You toured a model on a Saturday, signed the visitor sheet, and now you want representation. Sometimes that is recoverable and sometimes it is not — and what decides it is mostly how fast you move. Here is exactly what to do, in order, starting today.
Southern Nevada has roughly $40 billion of announced projects in motion — a $21.5 billion railroad, a $2 billion ballpark, an 18,000-acre industrial park, and an airport that may not open until 2037. Ranked by what they actually do to housing, that order reverses almost completely.
Las Vegas keeps announcing billion-dollar tech investments, but the housing demand they create is wildly uneven. A $1.2 billion data center supports a couple hundred jobs; one machine-tool plant is hiring 1,400. Here is which employment nodes actually move housing, and where their workers buy.
Downsizing in Las Vegas frees equity and cuts monthly cost — but the 3% property tax cap that protected you for years resets the moment you sell, and the claim on your new home is not automatic. Here is the full financial picture before you list.
The Tiki is the entry point into Esplanade at Red Rock — a single-story Summerlin villa at roughly $699,000 base. Here is what that number includes, the six things it does not, and the realistic all-in figure before you sign.
Nevada became the first state to let insurers sell a homeowners policy that excludes wildfire — and it has no FAIR Plan to catch anyone. Here is what that means for a Reno, Carson Valley, or Tahoe buyer writing an offer in 2026, and how to find out what a house is insurable for before your contingencies expire.
Two things changed for Las Vegas short sellers in 2026, and both cost money if you find out late. The federal tax exclusion on forgiven mortgage debt expired on January 1, and Nevada's statutory shield against a deficiency judgment does not survive a refinance — which most owners here did.
Most team leaders do not have a production problem. They have an infrastructure problem — they are paying for a CRM, an IDX site, a marketing designer and a transaction coordinator out of a split that was never built to carry them. Here is what merging into a 150-agent, $4.85 billion platform actually changes, from a three-agent team to a fifty-agent one.
A Bay Area apartment unit costs $323,825 and yields about 4%. A Las Vegas duplex closed at a $372,500 median for the whole building. With debt at 6.69%, only one of those two produces income instead of consuming it — and the reason is arithmetic, not opinion.
Buyers arrive at Tahoe looking for a cabin and find a 1970s house or a condominium. The word survives from an era that has mostly been rebuilt — here is what the Nevada shore actually sells, by decade and by price.
Summerlin North medians $525,000 and Summerlin South medians $847,000 — a $322,000 gap between two halves of the same master plan. The difference is thirty years of construction, and it decides more than price.
Radon is the one inspection item in Northern Nevada that a walkthrough cannot reveal, a neighbor's result cannot predict, and a seller usually cannot tell you about. Here is how to test for it during escrow and what the number means.
A Las Vegas condo costs $229,900 at the median against $529,000 for a house — and carries triple the monthly dues. The reason is the same for both numbers: you are buying air and a share of everything around it.
A 55+ community does not require everyone to be 55. The federal rule is 80% of occupied units, and the other 20% is a cushion the HOA controls — not a right you can count on. Here is what the age rules actually say about spouses, grandchildren, renting and inheritance.
Price cuts on 43% of active listings, 3.6 months of supply, and a median $18,900 reduction: the numbers say Las Vegas buyers finally have real leverage. Here is exactly how much — and how to use it before everyone else notices.
North Las Vegas runs the single most impressive park build in the valley — 170-acre Craig Ranch Regional Park — plus Aliante's Nature Discovery Park and an actual Ice Age national monument on its doorstep. The 2026 guide, with what homes near each park cost at the valley's friendliest prices.
Henderson runs the most decorated municipal park system in Nevada — Cornerstone's lake, Heritage Park's aquatics, Paseo Verde's trail spine, and the master-plan amenity cores of Inspirada and Cadence. Here's the 2026 guide, neighborhood by neighborhood, with what homes near each park actually cost.