Las Vegas set a record in 2025 when 26.5 percent of new-home sales were attached products — primarily townhomes — and that trend shows no sign of slowing as builders continue to pursue denser developments.
Driven by affordability concerns, builders are turning to townhomes to capture buyers in a marketplace where higher interest rates and elevated land costs have put more single-family homes out of their price range.
The trend in the townhome market has been telling. Between 2013 and 2018 as tracked by Las Vegas-based Home Builders Research, townhomes accounted for between 5 percent and 8 percent of the marketplace.
Townhomes made up 5 percent of the marketplace in 2015 as reduced land prices coming out of the Great Recession allowed builders to focus on single-family homes.
From there the numbers took off to 12 percent in 2018, and the share grew to 19.8 percent in 2021. It made another jump in 2023 when it reached 24.8 percent before setting a record last year at 26.5 percent.
This year, it’s 24.9 percent through July — a rare year-over-year decline over the past decade.
Home Builders Research President Andrew Smith said that in the past four to five years some six to seven of the top 10 subdivisions in net sales every year are communities with townhome products.
Heartland Trails by D.R. Horton, which was No. 1 in 2026 sales through June with 100, is a gated townhome community in North Las Vegas within the Villages at Tule Springs master plan. Prices start around $332,990 to $349,990 for two-story floor plans ranging from 1,309 square feet to 1,410 square feet. D.R. Horton has two others in the top 10 with Canyon Trails and Symmetry Trails with 67 and 51, respectively.
Construction defect laws have long slowed the construction of attached products that at one point were more than 20 percent of the market in the 1990s. Those laws were reformed in 2015, setting in motion for builders to pursue those projects because there were fewer concerns about lawsuits. With higher home prices driven by land costs and interest rates, buyers started demanding more attached products.
“The increase we’re seeing in attached housing is really driven by escalating cost of land and the need to provide more attainable housing opportunities,” said Tina Frias, CEO of the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association. “When land becomes more expensive, builders have to look at how we can use the land more effectively. Townhomes allow us to provide more homes per acre, and importantly bring homes to the market at a price point that more families can reach. That’s important for first-time buyers that may be priced out of the market otherwise.”
Builders can construct as many as 12 to 18 town homes per acre while single-family homes average about five homes per acre and eight to 10 per acre in higher-density areas.
Klif Andrews, division president for Tri Pointe Homes, said the builder’s first townhome community in Las Vegas was Evolve in the southwest valley in 2019. The company has four actively selling communities today with backyards and two-car garages. Crestview, Vertex, Southridge Pointe and Highview range in prices from the $300,000s to $500,000s and measure up to 1,900 square feet.
The private neighborhoods have a pool, barbecue area, dog parks, play area and walking trails within the neighborhood.
“We found they like the lock-and-leave lifestyle by offering front-yard landscape maintenance by the homeowners association and by offering recreational amenities that are part of the community rather than part of someone’s backyard,” Andrews said.
Townhomes make sense for builders because land has gotten more expensive in the valley, so the ability to get more homes per acre means the builder can offer a more affordable home in a townhome than a detached home, Andrews said.
“A lot of it is just being able to make homes more affordable for our buyers, and for Tri Pointe one thing we saw the most affordable homes didn’t have any premium qualities to them. We felt with townhomes we could build premium quality that would bring a better lifestyle.”
Taylor Morrison’s first townhome community was Westpark Villages and Courtyards in Summerlin some 14 years ago. Today, it has Lark Hill in Summerlin with a starting price of $470,000 and Esplanade at Red Rock Villas with a starting price just under $700,000. It will offer a new townhome community in the second quarter of 2027 called Paradise Encore.
Esplanade is an upscale townhome community with luxury bathrooms, high ceilings, designer kitchens, a clubhouse with a pool, restaurant and bar and other amenities.
Kent Lay, division president of Taylor Morrison, said with elevated land prices builders have to squeeze as much density to make housing affordable.
“It’s not the perfect solution because most buyers prefer detached, although not all of them, because some of them like the convenience of living in a townhome since they don’t have to worry about exterior maintenance,” Lay said.
Jim McDade, president of KB Home’s Las Vegas division, said the builder opened its first townhome community in Henderson in 2004. It has five townhome communities open for sale today: Elowen, Groves at Caldwell Park at Summerlin, Chelsea Commons, Avenues at Meriden and Meadows at Meriden.
Meadows at Sandstone at Tule Springs in North Las Vegas will open in September priced in the low $300,000s. The others are priced from the mid-$300,000s to low $400,000s and feature 1,200 square feet to 1,900 square feet.
“KB Home is always looking for innovative ways to make homeownership more affordable, and our strategy is driven by data on what our homebuyers want and what they can afford in a new home,” McDade said. “We also pride ourselves on being a low-cost provider in the Las Vegas market. The townhomes we offer are priced to be attainable for the median-income consumer and have become a sizable portion of our business.”
Townhomes can be $50,000 to $70,000 less than single-family homes while offering comparable square footage, functionality and bedroom counts, McDade said. Buyers also appreciate the lower maintenance and convenience of townhome living.
“These aspects make townhomes particularly appealing to retirees and those purchasing a second home in Las Vegas, who value the peace of mind that comes with a low-maintenance home when they’re away for extended periods,” McDade said.
Luke O’Loughlin, division vice president of sales for Sekisui House U.S., said Richmond American’s first townhome community was Duetto at Cadence in 2019, and it was a big success.
“Going into it, we didn’t know exactly what type of buyer we were going to have, but we found that it appealed to all types of buyers, from first-time homebuyers, empty nesters, retirees and everything in between,” O’Loughlin said.
Today, the builder has six townhome communities selling across the valley. That list includes Meridian at Cadence priced in the mid-$300,000s, Dove Rock at Summerlin and Iris Glen at Summerlin, which are priced in the mid-to-upper $500,000s. The others are Bella Copia in North Las Vegas, Vandalia in the south valley and Caliterra in the southwest valley.
“With affordability always being top of mind, townhomes offered a really great option for our customers,” O’Loughlin said. “Land is expensive, so you generally have a few options: either create higher density on the land or build a larger square footage, more expensive product. With these homes, we’re able to achieve higher density and offer a more affordable product while still giving the customer their own single-family home. Each is a single-family home with its own unique address. They still have two-car garages, private courtyards and well-executed floor plans where. Once, you’re inside, you wouldn’t even know you were in an attached product.”
Buyers want all the benefits of homeownership that you don’t get in a rental, O’Loughlin said. For a lot of buyers, a townhome is a more affordable way to get into homeownership and start building equity, while still getting many of the benefits of a single-family home.
“You still have good living space, full kitchens, three or more bedrooms, full-size attached garages and private outdoor space,” O’Loughlin said. “There’s also less exterior maintenance and upkeep, and there can be an energy-efficiency benefit with only three sides of the home exposed to the outside. It really gives buyers a great combination of homeownership, affordability, lower maintenance and all the features they’re looking for in a home.”
Smith said he expects the attached product percentage, which includes townhomes, duplexes and condos, to continue to increase in the future because of the need for affordability since the marketplace is thousands of homes short of the demand.
“I wouldn’t be surprised to see it closer to 40 percent,” Smith said. “If the demand for people to move to Las Vegas continues, we need the housing supply and higher density is a better use of the land.”
For that to happen Andrews said one hurdle to overcome is how local governments are making townhome projects more difficult to get more homes per acre. He said they’ve slowed down their townhome production the past two years because of that.
“The cities say they want more affordable homes, but then their new requirements require extra things that make townhomes more expensive,” Andrews said. “For example, it’s very difficult now to offer off-street parking. The cities (and county) want you to offer full driveways, and that’s almost unheard of across the country.”
It’s going to take working with local governments to get more density per acre to boost townhome production because land is getting more expensive, Andrews said.
The increase in townhouse production should be a reminder that the state shouldn’t make any changes to the current construction defect laws as land limits and the need for affordability will continue to drive the percentage up, Frias said.
“Right now with housing attainability challenges, those townhomes open up the door to homeownership for more people that may not have been able to access it otherwise,” Frias said. “We’re getting more builders and insurance companies that are acclimated that support these types of projects, it makes them more feasible.”
