What 55+ community options Summerlin & Henderson (Las Vegas: rental, HOA, how much)

Depends on how much you want to spend.

https://vegas55plus.com

https://www.milliefine.com/las-vegas...t-communities/

Sun City Summerlin or Sun City Anthem (Henderson). You can drive around on your own or have a realtor show you around. You need a realtor to see houses and the Clubhouses, so you might as well get someone who knows the areas well to show you around.

The amenities in Sun City Anthem are nicer IMO. I lived in the Northwest for a while (Providence) and spent time in the Summerlin area. Now I live in Seven Hills area of Henderson (close to Anthem). There are a lot of things in the Summerlin area I miss and it's a bit of a drive to go up there. Spend enough time getting to know each area.

Once you get to know the floor plans, the houses look a lot alike (unless you have a big budget).

Higher elevations are cooler in the summer. Great views add to the cost, but there are some stunning views.

We spent a few months and took 4 trips to the LV valley comparing 55+ active retirement communities. We like the location of Summerlin better than Anthem or McDonald Ranch in Henderson. But, ultimately, for us the actual community mattered most and the clubhouse and resort feel of Sun City Anthem prevailed. We found the clubhouse at SCS to feel more like a city run community center, and SCA felt (and is) so upscale in comparison. The houses in SCA are more expensive, the HOA fee in SCS is a little higher.

You will also need to consider if you are a golfer. Both Sun City Summerlin and McDonald Ranch actually own the golf courses they surround and so a significant part of their budgets are allocated to upkeep of the course and the carts. A couple of years ago SCS had a special assessment regarding their golf course. However, the great benefit of having the community actually own the golf course is (especially for homeowners with golf course views) that its unlikely the golf course will ever close and sell their land to developers.

A few years ago there were rumors that the Revere Club which runs thru SCAnthem was closing one of its 2 courses. It was just a rumor, but we were quite concerned.

We eliminated any 55+ communities that didn’t have “view houses” so, for us, that narrowed it down to SCS and SCA.

It's a good summary for sure. I don't disagree with your conclusion but I really love the location of Sun City Summerlin so we own there. Just a rental property but maybe a future home for us. We have owned for almost 5 years and I don't recall any HOA special assessment for golf course issues. What year was that? How much was it?

A lot of golf courses around the nation have closed in recent years which would make me leery of buying into a golf community.

We've a thread in the Phoenix forum that addresses the scenario of golf courses closing and what can happen when they do; i.e., special a$$e$$ments or construction on the former links which destroys the "view" for which people paid lot premiums.

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The most interesting in a number of ways is Silverstone Ranch. The golf course property had both covenants that prevented its use as anything other than a golf course and zoning that required open space use - no houses. The owner however closed it and sold the property to a developer for housing. The legal battle has now gone on for five years. Recent discussions appear to be closing in on a partial ownership of the golf course going to the HOA while a part gets developed. Still nothing final though.

We actually sold a nice house on the golf course in there. And we checked carefully that there was no way the golf course could go away. But it did anyway. So the property owners got screwed even though they were careful to make sure the course could not go away.

If interested follow the Silverstone golf course battle. I would think it will resolve over the next two years.

Sun City Summerlin subsidizes their courses. A good bit of work has gone on to consider closing a course to limit the expense. But the result was that maintaining the closed course would cost more than the existing subsidy. One of the reasons was that many of the fairways are a part of the storm drain system and have to be maintained to avoid flooding in the tracts.