Multi-generational living is on the rise.
New Homes
Southern Nevada homebuilders are encouraging new-home buyers to consider smart and connected technologies within their living spaces.
Southern Nevada homebuilders face many challenges when building homes in the Mojave Desert.
Las Vegas is known for reinventing itself every few decades. This year may be the year desert contemporary and midcentury modern begin to overtake Las Vegas’ well-known love affair with Mediterranean-style designs.
More than 400 professionals in the Las Vegas homebuilding industry attended the third Silver Nugget Awards ceremony March 19 at the Red Rock Resort. The event was coordinated by the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The judges were Vincent Barbato, principal of Family Development Homes; Donald Ruthroff, senior associate and senior architect at Dahlin Group Architecture Planning; and W. Rick Sellers, principal-in-charge and president of Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto Architects. Here are the winners:
The National Kitchen & Bath Association, in conjunction with the International Builders”; Show, released its much anticipated 2016 Design Trends Survey in Las Vegas in January, highlighting the latest design trends for American kitchens and master baths. Homebuilders, contractors and the homebuying public got a peek at what”;s hot, interesting and up-and-coming for kitchens and bathrooms this year.
Builders across Las Vegas are extending indoor living spaces outdoors with the inclusion of sliding or pocket doors, patios and courtyards.
About 10 percent of Americans choose to live behind bars, and with a quick drive around town, it looks like that might be a low estimate by the Census.
It’s simple to pay off a mortgage earlier. But should you? That’s a complicated question.
Winning the best model home kitchen in the $300,000 to $500,000 range at the Silver Nugget Awards was no surprise to American West Homes.
A jumbo mortgage is a home loan for an amount that exceeds conforming loan limits established by regulation. The limit is $417,000 in most of the United States but is $625,500 in the highest-cost areas.
Good news for folks who can afford to borrow a half-million or more to buy a house: J.P. Morgan is the latest bank to ease its lending standards for jumbo mortgages.
Most people who sign a mortgage don’t intend to walk away from it. Still, unforeseen circumstances — huge medical bills, lost jobs, divorce or eroding property values — can overwhelm even the best-intentioned borrower. A simple twist of fate can leave you facing a homeowner’s worst nightmare: foreclosure.
Once relegated to the upper floor of multistory homes, new homebuilders have found the demand to move the king”;s castle downstairs has become dominant.
The trend of indoor/outdoor living is spilling onto the front and sides of homes across the Las Vegas Valley. Elaborate entryways and courtyards are being incorporated into homes to meet the lifestyle requirement.