Day: March 13, 2010

The Adelson Educational Campus will host its inaugural Clean School yard sale Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on its campus, located on 9700 Hillpointe Road in the master-planned community of Summerlin. More than 500 families have contributed items to sell, including appliances, electronics, furniture, clothing and toys. All proceeds will benefit the middle and upper school’s student community service program, which plans, coordinates and funds various environmental and social welfare service projects.

New, finished units are being offered at Turnberry Towers in the high-rise property’s west tower at prices starting in the $200,000s.

With the upcoming tax credit deadline of April 30, Lennar’s Canyon Springs in North Las Vegas is offering 11 move-in ready homes with reduced prices.

Builders at the master-planned communities of Mountain’s Edge and Providence are adding new neighborhoods and models.

Q: Can built-in wardrobes take the place of a closet in a bedroom? I want a room to still be designated as a bedroom, but I am looking at using built-ins and taking out the old closet. — e-mail

Q: Your column on Feb. 6 was interesting because we are going to be electing officers this month.

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” — Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame philosopher

Mortgage rates didn’t budge at all this week.

Linda Donah purchased a home in the Mountain Falls master-planned community in Pahrump last year to be close to her daughter and provide for her mother.

Pardee Homes’ Solamar neighborhood at Vista Verde in northwestern Las Vegas features family-sized homes.

Lennar will introduce two new single-family home neighborhoods this weekend in the Las Vegas Valley — Mandolin at Mountain’s Edge and The Willows in Henderson, with prices ranging from the low- to high-$100,000s.

Las Rosas by Harmony Homes is a new 43-home neighborhood in eastern Las Vegas with access to shopping, dining and major thoroughfares. Prices starts at $110,000.

According to Pesaro sales agent Marietta Manayan, for a limited time the Pesaro collection in Henderson’s Tuscany Residential Village is offering an additional $10,000 towards options and upgrades.

The master-planned community of Summerlin is preparing for more than two dozen public and private resident events to be held this year.

Buyers often shy away from considering short-sale listings, either because they’ve had a bad experience or have heard horror stories about the deals that take forever and never close. Buyers’ agents sometimes steer their clients away from sales that are subject to the lender agreeing to accept less than what they’re owed, because it can mean a lot of work for nothing.

Toll Brothers has just announced the release of two new floor plans at two of its communities in the Las Vegas Valley, Inspirada and Mountain’s Edge.

Jan. 28-feb. 3