According to Lennar Las Vegas Division President Jeremy Parness, the housing market is stabilizing and homebuyers can feel secure in purchasing their brand-new home.
Many buyers and sellers are finding out that in today’s down market, houses aren’t worth what they thought they were. At least not in the eyes of appraisers, the professionals hired to tell lenders what the places could sell for on the open market if borrowers failed to make their payments.
Harmony Homes and Richmond American Homes are the two newest builders in the 3,500-acre master-planned community of Mountain’s Edge. A new product by KB Home is also offered in Mountain’s Edge.
Q: What kind of impact are you seeing from the tax credit for first-time homebuyers? Is this helping many homeowners? I’m also wondering if you think this tax credit is going to expire or keep on going. — Randy S., Las Vegas
In the 1,050-acre Mountain Falls master-planned community in Pahrump is the residents’ center. Located adjacent to the fairways of the Mountain Falls Golf Club, the facility provides residents an opportunity to pursue their interests and meet neighbors.
Spring Mountain’s football team could have folded when it fell behind by 14 points in the second quarter Friday.
Every now and then, you expect some director to sprint from behind a punching bag and scream, “Cut!”
Bad luck strikes some teams, and the Oklahoma Sooners certainly have endured more than their quota of early-season misfortune. The shoulder injury to Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford in the season-opening loss to Brigham Young is as bad as it gets.
As case studies go, the New Orleans Saints and hot-handed quarterback Drew Brees will make an intriguing one this week. He’s going to be used as sort of a laboratory rat in this experiment.
LOUDON, N.H. — It’s been seven years since Mark Martin legitimately challenged for the championship. Now he’s got his best shot at the title that’s so painfully eluded him over 27 years in NASCAR.
All point spreads are those used in the official Leroy’s College Challenge.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., who retired last year with a record of 39-0 with 25 knockouts, returns tonight from a 21-month layoff against Juan Manuel Marquez in a scheduled 12-round welterweight bout at the MGM Grand Garden. … It’s a fight Mayweather hopes will add to his legacy as one of his generation’s great champions.
Tyson Griffin’s name has never been on an Ultimate Fighting Championship marquee. That hasn’t stopped the diminutive Las Vegan from stealing a few shows.
UNLV football players could have spent the week moaning about a questionable and costly pass-interference call that went against them last weekend.
Archbishop Craig W. Bates, patriarch of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church, will visit Southern Nevada next week for a diocesan conference.
Ousted District Judge Elizabeth Halverson was found liable for defamation and other charges in a civil lawsuit filed by her former assistant.
RENO — Medical assistants will be allowed to give flu shots but prevented from administering injections of Botox, other cosmetic drugs and chemotherapy, the state Board of Medical Examiners ruled Friday on a 5-0 vote.
The Sandstone Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will host a Family History Jamboree on Sept. 26 at the LDS Family Center, 221 S. Lorenzi St.
In one of Mark Byron Helwig’s last moments, he scratched out a note to police.
A lawyer for convicted O.J. Simpson co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart is opposing the Clark County district attorney’s request for a 30-day extension to answer his appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court.
A road-widening project that can be likened to a boomerang will be put before Clark County commissioners for the third time, and two commissioners won’t participate.
Living in Las Vegas means accepting some things that other cities don’t have.
Unemployment continues to set records in Nevada and Las Vegas, and experts forecast higher joblessness in coming months even as the city’s biggest resort begins hiring Monday.