Buyers often assume that if a house is new there’s no need to inspect it. What could possibly be wrong with a brand-new house? You’d be surprised.
Q: I am a first-time homebuyer with very little money for a down payment. I am extremely interested in the column where you stated that the $8,000 tax credit can be used as a down payment. No one I have spoken to knows anything about it.
Tuscany Residential Village, an Italian-inspired master-planned community, is located in the hills of Henderson near Lake Mead and Lake Las Vegas.
Housing statistics released Sept. 3 by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors show local homes still selling, but at a slightly slower rate and at lower prices than the previous month.
Pardee Homes is offering incentives on new home purchases through Sept. 30.
Celebrating its 55th anniversary, Lennar offers neighborhoods with homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers.
According to Christine Lewis, general sales manager at Solera at Stallion Mountain, homebuyers who purchase at Del Webb’s Solera at Stallion Mountain neighborhood during the month of September can take advantage of incentives including 50 percent off homesite premiums, which could be valued up to $15,000 in savings, or 50 percent off the price of options and upgrades, offering savings up to $10,000.
Q: We have five foreclosed homes with the exterior of the property not being maintained by the lenders. This includes dead landscaping areas, swimming pools turning algae green, etc.
Close to the Las Vegas Strip, the community of MacDonald Highlands is located on 1,200 acres of a hillside range within the McCullough Mountains. Behind MacDonald Highlands’ guarded gates and landscaped entrance is the private golf course known as DragonRidge Country Club. Master planned by longtime developer Rich MacDonald, new additions to the community were recently added for the benefit of its members.
More than 75 home floor plans in a dozen neighborhoods are selling in the master-planned community of Summerlin. Floor plans include single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums that range from 1,487 to 5,904 square feet. Prices start in the high $100,000s.
Texas Tech’s nonconference game today against former Southwest Conference opponent Rice will not grab much national attention.
The winner of next week’s Indian Springs-Spring Mountain game likely will have the inside track for a spot in the Class 1A Southern League football playoffs.
The word from Corvallis is that Jacquizz Rodgers is a busy guy who doesn’t get all that excited about interviews. At least that’s the word an Oregon State media relations department official offered Monday.
Arbor View’s football team came into Friday’s game at Cimarron-Memorial looking to make a statement.
American teen tennis sensation Melanie Oudin‘s success in the U.S. Open added considerable traffic for her sponsor’s miadidas.com Web site, which featured her before the tournament began when she was ranked 70th in the world.
Canyon Springs coach Hunkie Cooper had ample reason to bench Deavin Rimmey after the first half of the Pioneers’ season opener Friday.
The book on Oregon State is if you’re going to get the Beavers, get them early.
Basketball players often have a spot on the floor from which they feel most comfortable knocking down a shot.
If it appears LaDainian Tomlinson is slowing in his old age, that he has lost a step and is not a breakaway threat, the San Diego Chargers running back wants everyone to know otherwise. He’s still the best.
RICHMOND, Va. — Carl Edwards grabbed the lead from Kevin Harvick on pit road with 24 laps to go Friday night and won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Richmond.
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley says she would rather be an advocate in Las Vegas than an executive in Carson City, so she won’t challenge Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid in the Democratic primary for governor.
The days of disagreeing without being disagreeable are disappearing and are never coming back. I miss those days.
For an idea of just how quickly Nevada’s economy deteriorated in 2009, consider the state’s unemployment trust fund.
A broken air conditioning unit at Von Tobel Middle School has prompted school officials to provide bottled water to students, install portable air conditioners such as “swamp coolers” and rotate classes to cooler parts of the building.
Richard and Elizabeth MacDowell didn’t live under a rock.