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LAS VEGAS, NV – Following a highly-destructive fire that laid waste to a long-dormant high-rise condominium project that was never completed, Clark County commissioners have approved a plan to construct a new apartment building in its place.

Las Vegas developer Brock Metzka, owner of Edward Homes, was given the go-ahead to build a five-story, 255-unit apartment building in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, along Maule Avenue near Buffalo Drive. Metzka originally purchased the 5.5-acre plot of land this past summer for $7 million, according to Clark County records.

The property upon which the new apartment building will be erected was originally the site of Spanish View Tower, a proposed project consisting of three 18-story condos by developer Rodney Yanke, who broke ground on the endeavor in the mid-2000s.

This took place during a period where multiple developers were in the midst of constructing many skyscrapers in Southern Nevada – known at the time as the “Manhattanization” of Las Vegas – but when the market crashed and the economy tanked during the Great Recession, many of these ambitious projects never came to be.

Among the aborted projects included Yanke’s Spanish View Tower; work ceased after the site was excavated and development of an underground garage had only just started. From there, Spanish View Tower existed only as a giant hole in the ground for over ten years, but in 2017 a plan by Las Vegas developer Tim Deters was approved by Clark County for build a 600-unit mixed-use apartment complex. Work was delayed for numerous years, but once construction finally commenced, a fire destroyed the in-progress building in June 2023.

Metzka’s new efforts on the property represent the re-building of Deters’ project, albeit with several changes from the previously-approved 2017 plans, including reducing the number of buildings on the site from three to one.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – As more and more construction projects are completed in an effort to address Las Vegas’ affordable housing crisis, apartment rents in Southern Nevada have dropped significantly, with a new report indicating a recent decrease of over four percent from 2024.

According to RealPage Market Analytics, apartment rents in September had plunged 4.1 percent year-over-year, which is quite a bit higher than the national average of 0.3 percent.

In the third quarter of 2025, the average rent of multifamily housing units in Las Vegas reached $1,451 per month; renters in the market have typically favored Class B and newer Class C properties for their cost-effectiveness due to affordability concerns.

Meanwhile, demand for apartments in Las Vegas continues to be fueled by its strong labor market and the steady influx of transplanted residents from outside of Nevada that it continues to attract.  

Large decreases in rent weren’t confined to Las Vegas, but instead was part of a broader West Coast phenomenon, where major metropolitan areas throughout that region noted the largest overall drops in the country in September. RealPage stated in their report that the cause was tied mostly to the market adjusting to national economic trends while absorbing new housing supply.

Las Vegas had previously been considered partially immune to national recession symptoms due to its economy being strongly propped up by its normally robust year-round tourism industry. However, Vegas has been recently experiencing a downturn in that regard as fewer people are traveling and spending money amid spiking inflation and the currently uncertain economic conditions in the country.

But despite the higher-than-average rent cuts in Vegas, they are not nearly at their highest points yet in recently recorded history; year-over-year drops reached 4.6 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a whopping 10 percent in 2010 after the Great Recession hit.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – According to a new report by Las Vegas Realtors (LVR), in October home prices in Southern Nevada remained just below their all-time record high, despite the fact that housing inventory is currently high and sales are down 10.1 percent year-over-year.

In October, the median price of a single-family home in the Las Vegas Valley was $474,370, which represents an approximate 1.0 percent increase from September’s price of $470,000 and a mere 0.2 percent drop year-over-year. The region’s all-time record high of $485,000 was achieved several times in 2025, most recently in July.

Home prices are remaining high in the valley despite a large surplus of listings and seriously lowered buying activity; sales in October were down 8.5 percent from September, as per data from the Multiple Listing Service, with LVR noting that 7,538 single-family homes were listed for sale at the end of October without any offers, representing a 30.3 percent jump year-over-year.

LVR President George Kypreos explained that the October report represents the continuing transition of Southern Nevada from a market where sellers were calling the shots to one where buyers now hold a distinct advantage. If there was ever a time for prospective homeowners to take advantage of the situation, he said, the time is now

Local home prices are moderating, with more homes on the market and properties taking a little longer to sell,” Kypreos said. “This shows that the housing market is shifting more in favor of buyers. For people who are prepared and can afford it, it’s a good time to buy.”

Meanwhile, the median price of a condominium or townhome sold last month in Las Vegas was $285,000, an approximate 3 percent drop from September’s price of $294,000 and a 9.5 percent decrease from October 2024.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The average sale price of luxury high-rise condominiums in Las Vegas in the third quarter reached an all-time record high, with that milestone bolstered by a sale at the Waldorf Astoria that was the second priciest of the year at $9.5 million.

In the third quarter, 199 high-rise condos exchanged hands in Southern Nevada, and while that amount was lower than the number of sales recorded in the first two quarters of the year – and the least sold since the second quarter of 2020, which marked the start of the COVID-19 pandemic – the third quarter sales figures made up for it in terms of quality over quantity.

The average sale price of a luxury condo in Las Vegas in Q3 2025 was an impressive $933,431, which amounts to $586 per square foot. This represents the new all-time record high for the region, with the previous record being set in the first quarter of 2024, when the average price was $816,717, as per research firm Applied Analysis.

While Q3 is now the current record-holder in terms of luxury condo price, it’s $586 per square foot average still ranks second when compared to the first quarter of 2024, when that price was $599.

Coming in third highest in the hierarchy of the condo prices is the second quarter of 2025, when the average sale was $749,854.  

The Waldorf Astoria $9.5 million condo – which was purchased in September, and again, is the second most costly of the year so far – ties as the most expensive in the hotel’s history, with the other sale for that same amount having taken place in January 2024. The condo sold in September boasts 3,922 square feet of living space on the 46th floor, with three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, and a view of the Bellagio fountain.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – After finally securing the vital public funding required to carry out the project, construction officially began this week on a new housing tract that is being developed for the beleaguered residents of Windsor Park, whose original homes have suffered immense structural damage as a result of slowly sinking into the ground for decades.

Workers are currently doing site work at the location of the upcoming 93-lot subdivision, situated west of Martin Luther King Boulevard along Carey Avenue, after the city of Las Vegas granted developer Community Development Programs Center of Nevada – which was awarded a contract for $37 million in 2024 to build the new subdivision – a grading permit on September 15.

Windsor Park was historically home to a predominantly Black community. The neighborhood originally featured 241 homes built in the 1960s, but only about 90 remain today. Due to inadequate geological studies before construction, natural fault lines and the depletion of groundwater from an underlying aquifer caused the ground to shift, gradually sinking many of the homes.

The consequences to Windsor Park were dire over the years, with walls inside homes cracking, porches collapsing, and sewage pipes shifting and bursting.

The public funding to construct new homes for the remaining Windsor Park residents was originally approved in 2023, but development remained in limbo until only recently due to an alleged unmet deadline that threatened to yank the millions of dollars earmarked for the renewal of the devastated neighborhood off the table. However, Nevada State Senator Dina Neal (D-North Las Vegas) later confirmed that the state had indeed met the deadline, thus, securing the funding and enabling construction to finally proceed.

Funding for the $37 million project is made up of $25 million in federal COVID relief funds, and an additional $12 million from the state of Nevada itself.

This week’s commencement of construction on the Windsor Park project is an especially important milestone to the community’s long-suffering residents, who can finally look forward to moving into their new homes in the near future.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Trust Home Builders, a Las Vegas-based real estate firm, is currently constructing a new, upscale housing community in Henderson, in addition to having several other similar projects lined up for development in the near future as well.

The luxury community, dubbed Serene Estates, is located on six-lots located along Serene Avenue just west of St. Rose Parkway. Work is already well under way, and upon completion, it will be comprised of one-story, 3,950-square-foot and two-story, 4,545-square-foot home designs, which will range in price from $1.8 million to $2.2 million apiece.

Serene Estates will not have a homeowners’ association, according to the developer’s website.

Trust Home Builders co-owner Michael Johnson also notes that his company has multiple other projects in various stages of conception and development; in addition to a Lake Las Vegas project that is currently underway, there is a five-lot housing tract along Horizon Ridge Parkway near Gibson Road that will break ground by the end of the year, along with a six-lot project east on Horizon Ridge slated for 2026.

Johnson said that the main demographic his company is targeting with these communities are older people from out-of-state that are moving to Southern Nevada to retire.

Despite the local real estate market currently not favoring sellers and many buyers feeling nervous about acquiring a home given current high prices and borrowing costs, Johnson pointed out that his company is nonetheless pushing forward with their projects because his target buyers tend to be affluent – in-part due to the current healthy stock market – and thus may be more willing to take the plunge on a house then the average person.

There’s so much fear among buyers right now,” he said. “I’m not letting the soft market slow me down.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – At a recent Clark County Commission meeting, Commissioner Jim Gibson noted that local residents need not worry about the solution to the municipality’s housing crisis inducing sprawl, which is defined as low-density development expanding outward from a city, characterized by single-use zones and heavy reliance on cars.

Gibson issued that statement as a reply to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Lied Center for Real Estate director Shawn McCoy, who was engaging in a presentation on the remaining developable land in the Las Vegas Valley and who, exactly, controls it currently.

Speaking as a private consultant, McCoy said that 88 percent of the land in Clark County is controlled by the U.S. federal government.

But as portions of that land are released for housing development, members of the public at the meeting expressed worry that the risk of sprawl – which can include negative aspects such as increased automobile dependence, higher energy consumption, air and water pollution, loss of agricultural land and natural habitats, higher infrastructure costs, and reduced community cohesion – will increase.

However, Gibson stated that he is not worried about sprawl becoming an issue as the housing crisis in the valley is addressed, noting that there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding it.

There are lots of misunderstandings out there,” he said. “Sprawl is something that has been studied in this valley many times over the years, it’s not what we face and it’s not who we are. The availability of land is something that is suppressing economic opportunity in the valley, it’s driving housing costs to a place where we can’t tolerate them anymore.”

McCoy also addressed the decrease in the amount of land developed each year in the valley for residential housing since 1995, with the largest drop happening during 2006; development has yet to return to the levels they are at prior to the mid-2000’s recession. He also called for additional research into understanding Southern Nevada’s situation when it comes to land and development and how it impacts the local economy and real estate industry.

I’ve been working as an academic for more than 15 years and I’ve never seen a more understudied research space than land,” McCoy said.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – Despite the fact that numerous experts are say the residential real estate market in the Las Vegas Valley is in the process of transitioning to one that is now favoring buyers, home sellers are nonetheless still making healthy profits that are higher than the national average and still above pre-pandemic levels.

Home sellers in Las Vegas experienced a median profit of 53 percent in the third quarter of 2025, which according to real estate data analyst ATTOM, represents a year-over-year decrease of 59.6 percent. In contrast, the highest recorded seller median profit in the valley – when examining sales going back to 2008 – was an impressive 81.8 percent in the second quarter of 2022.

Meanwhile, the median home profit nationally for the third quarter of this year was 49.9 percent, which is a 55.4 percent drop from the same period of time last year; the national median sale price for a single-family home in the third quarter was $370,000, whereas that number was $445,000 in Las Vegas.

Despite profit margins dropping on home sales in Southern Nevada, the ATTOM report notes that they are still above the national average as well as the levels recorded before the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to 2020, home sellers saw profit margins of around 30 percent. As the COVID-19 pandemic induced people in search of more space to leave cities and buy homes, profits doubled to more than 60 percent in mid-2022,” the report said. “The average seller’s return has been dropping steadily since that peak, but over the last three quarters it’s held just below 50 percent.”

The average home sale nationally in the third quarter resulted in $123,100 in profit, the report said, but the highest profit margins – up to 18 times higher – were generated in major urban areas such as Las Vegas, although the largest margins were in expensive California metros such as San Jose, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

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LAS VEGAS, NV – According to a new report by Redfin, the condominium market in the Las Vegas Valley is ranking among the most imbalanced out of the top major metropolitan areas in the United States, in terms of the number of sellers versus buyers.

The Valley’s condo market came in 13th out of the 50 major metros in Redfin’s report, with the number of sellers currently far outstripping buyers in the real estate marketplace. In August, there were 2,449 condo sellers in the valley, as compared to a mere 853 potential buyers; this represents a whopping 187 percent imbalance in favor of buyers, Redfin’s data says.

The national average in August was approximately 72.3 percent more condo sellers than buyers.

The median price of a condo in Las Vegas in August was $245,000, down from the peak price of $269,000 in June 2024; the record number of condos sold in Southern Nevada was 751 in April 2021 – in the midst of the buying frenzy that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic – but in August 2025, a mere 265 condos changed hands, Redfin said.

According to Redfin Senior Economist Asad Khan, the condo market in the valley is currently favoring buyers, and that gives them an advantage when negotiating for the time being.

Condo buyers can negotiate prices down and ask sellers for concessions, and they have a lot of options to choose from,’ he said. “Even though condo prices are still fairly high and HOA fees are rising, condos are still more affordable than single-family homes. That’s especially true for people planning to hold onto their condo for several years. With some would-be condo sellers pulling back, buyers may not have this much negotiating power for long.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – According to one of the top luxury real estate agents in the Las Vegas Valley, the number of homes owned by millionaire residents in Southern Nevada in 2025 has increased by a factor of three since 2019, illustrating the growing appeal of the region to affluent members of society.

IS Luxury real estate brokerage founder Ivan Sher noted that Las Vegas has become a very attractive place to live for the wealthy, with prices associated with high-end home sales in the valley increasing over the years as more rich individuals purchase properties here.

The luxury real estate market in the valley has evolved dramatically over the past decade. Ten years ago, the top of the market was $10 to $15 million,” he said. “Today, sales regularly exceed $30 million. What used to be considered luxury at $1 million is now closer to $3 to $3.5 million. This shift reflects more than just pricing; it shows that Las Vegas itself is maturing.”

The city has become a magnet for high-net-worth individuals seeking more space, a better quality of life, and the energy of a market that is constantly innovating,” Sher continued. “Since 2019, the number of millionaire households has tripled, and that momentum is evident in the type of buyers moving here, from tech entrepreneurs and finance executives to professional athletes and CEOs.”

Sher pointed out that the pandemic changed the luxury home dynamic in Vegas, saying that the number of affluent, out-of-state transplants – many hailing from the neighboring state of California – jumped dramatically after 2020.

Before COVID, roughly half of my buyers were local, about 30 percent came from California, and the rest from other areas,” he said. “After 2020, there was a noticeable shift. California buyers made up around 75 percent of my clientele. The pandemic was a tipping point, showing people that they no longer needed to live where they worked, thanks to Zoom and remote work, which created a strong migration to Las Vegas.”

Aside from the exciting entertainment options afforded by Vegas, the plethora of professional sports teams relocating to the city, and Nevada’s lack of state income tax, the overall quality of life offered by Southern Nevada is proving to be an exceptional draw to the wealthy.

Many are seeking a place with less polarization, a more manageable pace of life, good food, great weather, and convenient access through the airport,” he said. “People come for these reasons and often stay because Las Vegas delivers a quality of life they cannot find elsewhere.”

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LAS VEGAS, NV – While they have dropped slightly in recent months, interest rates on mortgages still remain at historically high levels; however, as the Federal Government’s current shutdown drags on – fueled by the impasse between Republicans and Democrats on a new spending bill – experts have speculated its potential impact on home borrowing costs.

To save you the time, in summary, most economists and mortgage strategists cited in the Investopedia article expect little change in rates during the shutdown itself. Once the shutdown ends and data flow resumes, they anticipate a slight easing of rates (i.e. a downward move).

But speculation is just that – essentially a glorified theory – as the shutdown makes it more difficult to gauge the current status of the economy and, therefore, ascertain the direction mortgage rates may end up going in.

Yields on 10-year Treasury notes are what most heavily influences mortgage rates, and lenders base the pricing of their mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on the returns offered by competing government bonds, often bundling mortgages together to sell to investors. During a government shutdown, 10-year treasury notes are normally very coveted, resulting in more affordable lending rates due to notes’ rising prices and falling yields.

In addition, the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who are typically furloughed and not getting paid during a shutdown, and the delayed issuing of FHA, USDA, and VA loans – which are government-funded – in addition to federally-financed flood insurance could also cause rates to lower.

But shutdowns are unpredictable in terms of how they may impact mortgages, so there’s also the possibility that rates could swell once again, driven by factors such as credit and fiscal worries and economic uncertainty. Shuttered government agencies are also unable to release labor market and inflation reports, which have a large impact on investors, loan rates, and the overall economy.

One thing is for sure, according to Realtor.com senior economist Jiayi Xu- the longer the shutdown continues, the greater the economy – and lending costs – will be influenced, for better or for worse.

The longer the shutdown drags on, the greater its potential influence on markets and monetary policy decisions will be,” he said.

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Christopher Boyle is an expert investigative journalist for SEARCHEN NETWORKS® and reports for independent news and media organizations in the United States. Christopher keeps a keen-eye on what’s happening in the Vegas real estate market on behalf of Shelter Realty Property Management

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LAS VEGAS, NV – A new report by Las Vegas Realtors (LVR) indicates that home prices in Southern Nevada are continuing to fall – and available inventory keeps rising – following an extended streak where they held onto the all-time record high point earlier this year.

As per LVR, in September the median price of an existing single-family home in the Las Vegas Valley was $470,000, which represents a 2.1 percent decrease year-over-year. That number is also a $10,000 decrease from August’s price of $480,000, and $15,000 down from the region’s all-time record high of $485,000, which was achieved several times in 2025, most recently in July.

The median price for condominiums and townhomes sold in the valley in September followed suit, falling to $294,000, a $4,000 decrease from August’s $298,000 and 1.8 percent lower year-over-year. Southern Nevada’s all-time record for condos and townhomes was originally set in October 2024, when that price reached $315,000.

LVR President George Kypreos echoed sentiments in the report that he previously expressed in a recent media interview, noting that the changing conditions in the valley represent the local real estate market going through a “reset” of sorts.

This month’s LVR statistics are another indication that we’re going through a bit of a reset in the housing market,” he said. “We’re seeing more homes available for sale than we’ve had in some time. We’re also seeing a more balanced housing market. Along with other factors that have been shifting in favor of home buyers, we’re entering a time of year that national reports show is the best time to buy.”

LVR reports that there were 7,502 single-family homes listed for sale without any offers at the end of September, a 37.4 percent increase from the same period of time one year prior. Meanwhile, the number of condos and townhomes listed without offers jumped 50.5 percent year-over-year.

A total of 2,369 existing homes, condos and townhomes sold in the valley in September, a 5.2 percent jump from last year for homes but a 0.2 percent decrease for condos and townhomes.

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Christopher Boyle is an expert investigative journalist for SEARCHEN NETWORKS® and reports for independent news and media organizations in the United States. Christopher keeps a keen-eye on what’s happening in the Vegas real estate market on behalf of Shelter Realty Property Management

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