Buying a home in Summerlin

Buying a home in Summerlin is the right call for a specific buyer: you work on the west side or the northwest, or from home, and being outdoors is how you actually spend a weekend. Red Rock is about twenty minutes from most of Summerlin and people hike before work. Downtown Summerlin covers shopping and food. The construction is newer than most of the valley and the trails and golf are woven through the villages.

The buyer Summerlin is wrong for is the one who works near the airport or on the southeast side, because the 215 at 5pm is a different road than the 215 at 11am and that drive is the single biggest thing people underestimate about living here. So the first thing I ask a Summerlin buyer is where you work, and the first thing I ask you to do is drive that commute at rush hour before you fall for a house. The second question is your number, because at the same price Southern Highlands often gets you more house, and you should choose Summerlin knowing that, not find out later.

The first call covers the commute, what the house has to do, whether a view matters to you, how much yard you want, and what you are hoping to spend. Then the payment conversation with a lender, dues included. Then a short list of villages that fit: the older villages toward the east side of Summerlin sit closer to the rest of the city and are generally older, the newer villages push west and south toward Red Rock with newer everything, and a handful have single-story plans if one level is the priority. The 3D walkthroughs do the first pass so we tour the ones you already like.

On a Summerlin tour I am looking at which direction the big windows face, because west-facing glass toward Red Rock is a view and a summer power bill at the same time, at what the HOA controls and charges in that village, and at what the street is like on a weekday evening. When you find it, earnest money is typically about 1 percent and negotiable, the due diligence period is usually 10 calendar days to two weeks and negotiable, and the HOA resale package Nevada requires the seller to provide gets read during that window. Then the appraisal, the loan, the walkthrough, signing and keys, with every date on a calendar and a call from me before each one.