Northgate

Northgate is northwest Reno grown up around a golf course that became open space: an established neighborhood of Spanish Revival, ranch-style and New Traditional homes from about 1,000 to 3,650 square feet in the Peavine foothills, home to roughly nine thousand people. Mature trees give it real shade in a high-desert city, the Sierra fills the horizon, and the Esplanade at Northgate townhomes add a lower-priced door into the neighborhood.

Lending here is move-up conventional work and long-held equity. Conventional leads on the family homes, FHA and VA cover first purchases at the townhome end and among the smaller ranches, and HELOCs put decades of appreciation to work for owners who bought when the fairways were still green. On an Esplanade townhome, Art runs the project review, budget, dues and warrantability, before you write, and the HOA’s architectural review keeps the stock consistent in ways appraisers reward.

Geography sells itself: Peavine Peak hiking and mountain biking out the back door, the old golf course’s paths now the neighborhood’s own walking and biking network, the Sierra Vista Park bike and skate park, the Terrace Sports Complex and Las Brisas Park close by, and Somersett’s club a few minutes over without living behind its gates. Kids track to Rollan Melton Elementary, Billinghurst Middle and McQueen High, and Mae Anne and McCarran put I-80 minutes away.

Per 2026 northern Nevada market guides, Northgate trades from the $600Ks to around $700K, with townhomes below that band, roughly 50 to 80 sales a year, and days on market that run longer than the city core, which hands a prepared buyer real negotiating room. Ask Art to pair the pre-approval with the strategy.

Northgate Golf Club opened in these foothills in 1988, a Brad Benz and Mike Poellot design that Golf Magazine named one of the country’s best new courses of 1989 and that hosted the Ben Hogan Tour’s Reno Open in 1990 and 1991, plus U.S. Open qualifying. The neighborhood grew up around its fairways. The recession closed the course in 2009, and rather than watch a developer buy the land, residents petitioned and split a $2.4 million purchase with the City of Reno and Washoe County to preserve it as open space. The old cart paths became the neighborhood’s walking and biking trails, and the protected land still frames the views the course created.