Las Vegas Real Estate News

LAS VEGAS, NV – While housing in the United States may not be a buyer’s market, the overall burdensome economy – combined with sky-high home prices and mortgage interest rates still hovering at just over seven percent – have resulted in a growing number of sellers finding themselves forced into giving concessions to buyers in order to get bites on their listings.

According to a new report by Redfin, the current number of sellers that are offering some sort of concession to potential property buyers is 44 percent, which represents a whopping year-over-year increase of 39 percent. This signifies that the leverage sellers held on buyers in recent years is obviously starting to decrease, as market conditions are encouraging many who are looking to buy a home to wait things out in hopes that things improve.

One example of concessions being offered by sellers, as per the Redfin report, include a homeowner who had been attempting to sell a residence that required several costly repairs, including a new roof and a new boiler; the grand total for these repairs would have run any buyer an estimated $100,000 extra on top of the cost of the home itself.

However, this seller experienced multiple potential buyers in a row refusing move forward with the deal when faced with the extensive repairs, forcing the seller to carry them out himself before anyone would proceed.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when interest rates were much lower, this situation would almost certainly not been the case, but current high interest rates and ballooning inflation are causing buyers to become far pickier regarding how and when they spend their money, said Las Vegas Realtors President George Kypreos.

Most of the buyers are asking for something and they’re getting it,” he said, with Redfin noting that other concessions can include credit towards repairs or credit towards buying down their interest rate. The number of negotiations is going up, and while it’s not considered a buyer’s market yet, the scales are certainly tipping more in that direction than they have in several years.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The developers of UnCommons – a huge, 40-acre mixed-used facility in southwestern Las Vegas – announced that construction efforts have officially been completed, although some of the remaining empty land on the property may be used for future projects.

UnCommons – located at Durango Drive and the 215 Beltway in the southwest valley – is essentially a mini-city within a city, consisting of 500,000 square feet of offices, as well as restaurants, health and fitness studios, relaxation options, and over 830 residential units, in addition to The Assembly, an experimental project consisting of a 5,000-square-foot conference and event pavilion.

The Assembly is being touted as a one-of-a-kind addition to the mixed-use development that can host a variety of event types, including talks, community events, and weddings; the space can even be utilized as hub for the facility’s office tenants when needed.

The apartment complex situated within UnCommons – which is dubbed Vestra – is made up of 830 units spread out amongst three towers; in addition, office tenants consist of notable companies such as Draft Kings, CBRE Group Inc, Deloitte and Newmark.

On the storefront side, food and beverage locations include Urth Caffe, Teaspoon, and Amari, and retail businesses are made up of varied businesses such as a luxury candle maker and a hair salon.

The concept behind the $800 million project – which originally broke ground in 2020 – is that it is a space where the various employees working for the businesses located there have numerous solutions to all of their needs – living space, entertainment, exercise, and more – right there at their fingertips.

Matter Real Estate Group partner Jim Stuart said that the UnCommons project is already a rousing success, with 93 percent of the office space leased, along with 90 percent of the retail and restaurant space and 60 percent of Vestra.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – A swanky penthouse condominium situated within the clubhouse in Summerlin’s luxury guard-gated residential community The Summit Club has been listed on the market for a whopping $25 million, which – if it sells for that impressive price – would overshadow the previous record-holder of such a property by almost $9 million.

The current record-holder for the highest price ever paid for a condo in Southern Nevada is $16.25 million, which was originally set in 2021 at The Martin luxury high-rise tower, located in Paradise.

The Summit Club condo in question comes in at 4,929 square feet and boasts five bedrooms, five baths, and floor-to-ceiling windows – with a wrap-around balcony outside that wraps around three sides of the penthouse – offering breathtaking views of the surrounding area, including the Las Vegas Strip, a golf course, and mountains.

11660 Summit Club Drive 204, Las Vegas – $25,000,000.00

In addition to the views, the balcony also features a spa, a small pool, a hot tub, and an outdoor shower. Of course, as a resident the buyer would also have access to the resort amenities of The Summit Club itself, including a grocery store, a bar, lounge spaces, a pool, a fitness center, a spa, and a restaurant.

The listing agent, Ivan Sher of IS Luxury, said that the condo is at the very height of luxury and should appeal for those who are looking for – and who have the affluence to possess – the finer things in life.

The views are epic. This outdoor living space is what captures it for me. You have your pool and hot tub out here. It is really resort-style living. You can go down to your restaurant. There’s nothing like it. It’s the best of the best of the best,” he said. “It’s for a couple. It’s for somebody who wants their family to have access to the best, and they don’t want the upkeep of a home and yard.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – With the number of homes being snatched up by Wall Street-backed hedge funds for use as rentals creating a very real housing crisis in Southern Nevada, state lawmakers are attempting to pass legislation aimed at curbing the volume of properties these investors can purchase.

Studies indicate that, by the end of 2023, approximately 15 percent of Clark County’s housing stock – and nearly 25 percent in North Las Vegas – was owned by corporate investors whose vast resources allow them to easily submit insurmountable bids on properties, pricing out middle-class buyers in the process, according to State Senator Dina Neal (D).

There are actual families who do want the American Dream,” she said at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting last week. “They want to take their pharmacy job, they want to take their teaching job, and they want to translate that money into a mortgage. They want to own a home, and they’re not actually able to do that in this current market.”

To help address this issue, Neal has proposed Senate Bill (SB) 391, which – if passed and signed into law – would establish a corporate landlord home ownership registry to increase transparency, as well as limit the number of single-family homes that corporate investors can acquire. The bill passed the Judiciary Committee last week.

Neal had previously floated a similar bill in 2023 – that was vetoed by Republican Governor Joe Lombardo – that would have limited corporations to purchasing 1,000 housing units a year; SB391 is far more stringent, however, and would set that limit to merely 100 units per year.

Neal was inspired to lower that number based on a 2023 transaction where Starwood Property Trust sold 264 homes that it owned in the Las Vegas Valley to Invitation Homes in a single-day deal worth $98 million.

“I was like, I really need to drop this number because it’s amazing that someone in one day could buy 265 homes and not bat an eye,” she said.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Recently, ground was broken on PuraVida Senior Living, a new senior housing community in North Las Vegas that is being brought to live via a joint venture between Foresight Housing Partners and nonprofit partner HopeLink of Southern Nevada.

Situated next to Lake Mead West Apartments PuraVida Senior Living will be located upon 3.89 acres of land and will consist of 74 single-story units spread out across 14 buildings. North Las Vegas is in dire need of more supportive housing options for their elderly population to be able to age in place and live independently, and PuraVida will help in addressing that shortcoming.

PuraVida is being paid for by numerous sources, such as HOME MEANS Nevada – American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, Southern Nevada Region Housing Authority project-based vouchers, HOME Grants, and contributions from the project’s developers.

In addition to housing, the PuraVida will also offer a slew of amenities for their residents, such as a community center with a full kitchen, a dog park, unit gardens, open green space and outdoor pickleball courts. Also, the community is specifically located near public transportation routes in an effort to help senior residents get around easily, as well as major retail and shopping options such as Wal-Mart. There are also numerous local employers in the area in case any residents are looking for work.

On-site supportive services will be readily available, including full-time case managers, weekend and holiday staffing, resident engagement programming, and access to health care services as well as other services.

Hassan Chaudhry, President of Foresight Housing Partners, said that no stone was left unturned when it comes to providing for the needs of PuraVida’s residents.

PuraVida Senior Living will provide much-needed, supportive housing to seniors in North Las Vegas,” he said. “This project is designed to not only provide accessible and safe housing, but to create a vibrant community for our senior residents with the support and amenities they deserve.”

Development of PuraVida Senior Living is scheduled to be finished by fall 2026.

LAS VEGAS, NV – In March 2025, prices of homes in Las Vegas remained at their all-time record high for the third straight month in a row, according to a new report released by Southern Nevada real estate industry group.

Las Vegas Realtors (LVR), using data from the Multiple Listing Service, confirmed that the median sale price for a single-family home in the Las Vegas Valley in March was $485,000, the highest that amount has ever been; that record-setting price has held steady for the third month running after it was initially set in January and remained firmly in-place in February.

George Kypreos, LVR President, said that the median price maintaining its current level without change represents a positive development for those looking to buy a home in Southern Nevada, as it denotes a rising degree of stability in the local real estate marketplace.

It’s interesting to see that the median price of existing homes hasn’t changed since the start of 2025,” Kypreos said. “This is another indication of stability and how homes prices have been increasing more gradually. At the same time, home buyers are benefiting from more homes available for sale and a recent drop in mortgage rates.”

There were 5,416 homes listed for sale in Las Vegas at the end of March without any offers, which represents a whopping increase of 63 percent year-over-year; in that same month, there were 2,712 residential sales – comprised of homes, condominiums, and townhomes – which was a jump of 2.9 percent from the same period of time in 2024 for houses, but a drop of 3.4 percent for condos and townhomes.

Local home sales have been rebounding from a slow year in 2023,” LVR said in a statement regarding the rapidly fluctuating Las Vegas market. “LVR reported a total of 31,305 existing local homes, condos and townhomes sold during 2024. That was up from 29,069 such sales in 2023 – the slowest year for existing local home sales since 2008. LVR tracked 35,584 total sales in 2022. That followed a record year for existing local home sales in 2021, when LVR reported 50,010 total properties were sold.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Enforcement action and penalties against illegal short-terms rentals being operated within the Las Vegas Valley are being ramped up significantly going forward, according to an announcement by Clark County officials this week.

At a council meeting on Tuesday, Code Enforcement Manager Jim Andersen confirmed to the Clark County Commission that efforts to seek out and crack down on violators of short-term rental rules will now be a main focus of his department.

We’ve been reactive in our enforcement up to this point,” Andersen said. “We want to start doing proactive enforcement.”

Among the new aspects of enforcement implemented by the county include recovering fines levied against illegal rentals by means of a lien system.

In addition, the county will be hiring a company whose responsibility it will be to regularly comb through listings on platforms such as Airbnb, VRBO and others in order to root out short-term rentals that are operating without a license; Andersen referred to this as “a significant tool to gaining compliance.”

The county currently employs the Short-Term Rental Education Enforcement Team (STREET), a division originally founded in 2018 to identify and investigate illegal rentals; their goal, Andersen said, is to get homeowners to voluntarily comply with regulations via education. To date, STREET has investigated 5,724 cases, with 93 percent of them eventually closing without fines being levied; currently, the number of cases pending is 590.

Those who are found to be continuing to operate illegal short-term rentals following the initial STREET intervention face fines amounting to anywhere between $1,000 to $10,000 per day; as per the new rules introduced this week, those fines can be recovered by the county with liens on the property in question.

This news comes as Clark County is attempting to improve and speed up their oft-maligned process of approving short-term rental licenses, which critics have said has been far too slow. The county has only issued 174 licenses since August, with 515 still pending.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Following months of delays and mounting frustration from homeowners missing out on income opportunities, Clark County officials have announced they are looking into ways to increase the speed of their short-term rental licensing process.

Assembly Bill 363 was signed into law by the Nevada legislature in 2021, requiring municipalities to draw up regulations governing the short -term rental industries within their borders.

After approving a short-term rental ordinance in June 2022, Clark County had started a pre-application process for short term rentals in September 2022, with the deadline for submission having been August 2023. 1,169 of the pre-applications they received were deemed eligible and the homeowners that submitted them were subsequently allowed to submit a short-term rental license application.

However, the process of approving these applications has been a slow and arduous one that has found itself ensnared in red tape; as of March 2025, a mere 175 licenses have been approved and 141 denied; 515 are still pending, drawing the ire of homeowners who say they are losing money every day they are forced to wait.

As a result, many homeowners are operating rentals with Clark County illegally; at current count, there are approximately 10,000 short-term rentals currently operating in Las Vegas, with the majority of them doing so without the benefit of a license.

Vince Queano, Clark County’s Director of Business Licensing, said that – in addition to several laws that are currently on the books that serve to hamstring the process – it takes county officials an average of one week to approve six rental units.

With over 500 [pending], just doing basic math, it would take about a year and a half [to process the backlog],” Queano said. “But then again, as we license each short-term rental unit, it creates that 1,000-foot buffer so there may be several hundred that may be denied in the future, which would make the licensing [process] overall shorter.”

Queano is proposing several changes to the process to potentially help make the approval process go faster and smoother, such as introducing a first-come, first-served system for applicants – as opposed to the previously-used random number generator – in addition to pushing back requirements that homeowners have wastewater connections and $500,000 in liability insurance at the time their application is approved, as opposed to when they first apply.

And finally, Queano suggests that the process could be sped up if short-term rental platforms got business licenses, although he did not name which companies he was referring to.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – In a move to address the housing crisis in Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas City Council will be reviewing potential zoning changes this week that, if approved, will convert the Desert Pines Golf Club into the largest affordable housing project in the history of the state of Nevada.

In November 2024, a $25 million loan was approved by the Nevada State Infrastructure Bank to finance the initial phase of the redevelopment of the Desert Pines Golf Club to convert the property into a master-planned community dubbed “Desert Pines,” which will be comprised of 1,082 affordable multifamily housing units and 280 market-rate housing units.

In addition, the Desert Pines community will also offer a 10,000-square-foot community center, a 10,000-square-foot early education center, a 30,000-square-foot job training center and 75,000 square feet of commercial space.

The city of Las Vegas owns the 100-acre property that the golf club currently occupies. The Las Vegas City Council announced they will allow the club – located at East Bonanza Road and North Pecos Road along Interstate 11 in the east valley – to continue to operate as normal until the Desert Pines Redevelopment Project is ready to commence construction.

The $25 million loan will be to finance the project’s initial infrastructure, work which will be carried out by the not-for-profit group Urban Strategies and developer McCormack Baron Salazar. However, the main thrust of Desert Pines’ development will be a broad partnership between multiple entities, including the state of Nevada, the city of Las Vegas, Clark County, the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust and the Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions.

The development will be carried out in phases, with the first one slated to cost $54.3 million; the overall total cost of the project is anticipated to come in at approximately $450 million, and will provide thousands of jobs throughout its construction.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The impact of the tariffs instituted by upon Mexico, Canada, and China have already been experienced by the real estate industry in the Las Vegas Valley, causing difficulties for some developers who are now encountering elevated building costs.

Nigro Construction – which has operated in Southern Nevada for four decades, focusing mainly on health care, retail and industrial projects – is one such company, with the commercial contractor’s Vice President of Business Development and Project Management, Cory Frank, noting that they are currently paying more for various building supplies than before.

However, Frank said that costs are rising and falling depending on the circumstances of each project, causing a sense of uncertainty in the industry.

In the Las Vegas commercial construction industry, we’re directly feeling the impact of tariffs on steel and aluminum, both of which come from Mexico and Canada,” he said. “While this is a dynamic situation that continues to change, our subcontractors are currently seeing anywhere from 10-15 percent increases in material costs, with some projections reaching 20-25 percent in the next few weeks.”

Two of the United States’ primary trading partners, Canada and Mexico, have had tariffs on various materials and goods as high as 25 percent imposed upon them by the Trump Admin, with China currently having 10 percent tariffs on certain goods.

Two of the industries in the U.S. that are expected to experience the impact of the tariffs the most are automotive and construction, due to the fact that their main supply chains emanate from the nation’s immediate neighbors to the north and south.

However, Frank said that the construction industry is attempting to roll with the punches and adapt to the increasing costs of doing business by working smarter, not harder.

These increases are impacting budgeting and project timelines, but as a contractor, our priority is making financially responsible choices that help our clients save as much as possible while keeping projects on track,” Frank said. “While tariffs are pushing costs higher, we and our subcontractors are doing our best to stay ahead of them by planning purchases in advance and making smart sourcing decisions.”

Experts note that the tariffs may have a greater impact upon multifamily projects in Las Vegas – as opposed to commercial ones – due to the different materials required, potentially resulting in higher price increases and/or cancellation of projects, which could put a strain on a market already dealing with insufficient housing supply.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – A large hedge fund based out of New York is the single-largest owner of homes in Clark County at nearly 3,200 units, according to the county’s property records.

Pretium Partners, a hedge fund that manages over $55 billion in assets, is the owner of Progress Residential, a home rental property management company that – as of the end of February, 2025 – owns 3,190 homes in the county, as per officially-confirmed data.

But that number could, in fact, potentially be higher, as typically real estate investors make it difficult to track their dealings by buying properties under the guise of various limited liability companies (LLCs), often with different-yet-similar names. For example, according to Clark County records, at least five of LLCs that have purchased property contain the word “Progress” in their name.

When contacted by local media about the true scope of their stake in Clark County, representatives for Pretium refrained from giving an exact number of the homes it owns, but claimed that it is fewer than 4,500.

U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NEV) said that corporate and Wall Street-backed investors have snatched up thousands of homes in both Southern Nevada and throughout the nation – mainly targeting starter homes and low-income communities – thereby reducing overall affordable stock and making the dream of homeownership harder for average people to obtain.

Studies indicate that, by the end of 2023, approximately 15 percent of Clark County’s housing stock – and nearly 25 percent in North Las Vegas – was owned by investors.

These predatory practices led by these Wall Street-backed hedge funds are acquiring more properties, pricing out Nevadans and their ability to own their own home,” Horsford said.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The Otonomus Hotel – which will be opening their doors for business this upcoming June for both short-term reservations and long-term leases – will be offering guests a unique way to ensure a memorable stay each and every time they come: utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to customize and enhance their experience to their exact needs and wants.

The AI-powered hotel and apartment complex – located off the Las Vegas Strip in the vicinity of Allegiant Stadium at the intersection of West Russell Road and South Decatur Boulevard – has started taking bookings for their June 1 opening date.

For those looking to book a short-term stay, prices begin at $329 for a double queen, one-bedroom, fully-furnished residence, with each unit coming with a full kitchen and living space; a 30 percent discount is available for a limited time.

And for those who are looking to become tenants, they will be able to sign a standard 12-month lease for a one bedroom, one bath, 872 square-foot apartment with a starting price of $1,950 per month; two- and three-bedroom apartments are up for grabs as well if a tenant needs more living space.

The “Class A” Otonomus Hotel has 303 units and approximately 1,100 beds – all situated on a 13-acre plot of land – and is comprised of 60 percent hotel rooms and 40 percent apartments. All rooms will boast interconnectivity via a series of doors that can be locked or unlocked by the hotel’s AI algorithm, allowing guests to book the exact number and configuration of rooms they want for their stay, from just one single room all the way up to a six-bedroom penthouse.

The AI – via a downloadable mobile app – will also function as a “personal assistant” that can be used to request cleaning, as well as ordering food, extra towels or toiletries to your room; the requested items will be delivered via a two-way cabinet by the main door of your room, known as an “E-Butler.”

In addition, the AI will keep a permanent record of the guest’s preferences, so if they return even years later, their room will automatically remember the same exact temperature and language preferences, how they take their coffee, food likes/dislikes, and other settings as before, as well as being able to offer personalized entertainment and even the ability to check in and out through their phone.

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