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Midtown Reno — Reno, NV, USA

Developer Report · generated 2026-10-10 · buyer profile: nonresident foreign individual, direct ownership
Assumptions used: purchase price $400,000; 5-year hold; exit at $400,000 (no-appreciation assumption unless overridden); expected rent $32,000/yr (estimated from the neighborhood’s recorded rental yield — editable, not a sourced figure). Change any of these on the interactive page.
All-in acquisition cost
$1,560
0.39% of price, on top of it
Recurring cost / year
$1,850
Yield after tax, before operating costs
6.64%
rent assumption estimated from neighborhood yield
Exit cost
$21,600
+ $60,000 withheld at closing (prepayment, recoverable)
Total cost of ownership (5y)
$50,418

This figure counts taxes, government fees and agent commissions only. It excludes operating costs: insurance, HOA or service charge, property management, maintenance and vacancy. Those are building-level commercial terms rather than public record, so they cannot carry a primary source, and this product does not print numbers it cannot cite.

True cost of ownership — itemised

At acquisition

ItemAmountSource
Land transfer / deed tax
Nevada Real Property Transfer Tax: statewide base $1.95 per $500 of value (0.39%).
$1,560 NV Dept of Taxation — Real Property Transfer Tax (as of 2026-07-25); NV Dept of Taxation — RPTT FAQs (liability + Clark worked example) (as of 2026-07-25)
Mansion / luxury transfer tax Not available — no sourced figure —
Buyer's agent commission
Traditionally the US buyer paid no direct agent commission (the seller-paid total covered both sides).
$0 Federal Reserve Board — FEDS Note: Commissions and Omissions (NAR settlement mechanics) (as of 2026-07-20)
Legal / closing costs Not available — no sourced figure —

Every year of ownership

ItemAmountSource
Annual property tax (county effective rate)
ACS-derived EFFECTIVE property-tax rate for this county: median real-estate taxes paid (ACS table B25103, $2,297) divided by median owner-oc…
$1,850 US Census Bureau — ACS 5-Year Estimates 2023 (tables B25103 median real estate taxes paid, B25077 median home value) (as of 2023-12-31)

On rental income

ItemAmountSource
Rental income tax (federal)
§871(d) election: NRA may elect to treat US rental income as effectively connected, taxing NET income (after expenses/depreciation) at ordin…
$3,602 IRS — Taxation of nonresident aliens (as of 2026-07-20); IRS — FDAP income (W-8ECI mechanism) (as of 2026-07-20); IRS — Federal income tax rates and brackets (as of 2026-07-20)
Rental income tax (state) Not applicable — Nevada imposes no state income tax on individuals — rental income of residents and nonresidents alike is untaxed at the state level. NV Dept of Taxation — Income Tax in Nevada (as of 2026-07-25)

At exit

ItemAmountSource
Capital gains tax (federal)
Under IRC §897 (FIRPTA), gain on a foreign person's disposition of US real property is treated as effectively connected income taxed at LTCG…
$0 IRS — Topic No. 409, Capital gains and losses (as of 2026-07-20); IRS — Definitions of terms and procedures unique to FIRPTA (as of 2026-07-20); Legal Information Institute — 26 U.S. Code §897 (as of 2026-07-20)
Capital gains tax (state) Not applicable — No Nevada capital gains tax for individuals — no individual income tax exists, and the Dept of Taxation's tax-type enumeration contains no c… NV Dept of Taxation — Income Tax in Nevada (sourced negative) (as of 2026-07-25)
Seller's agent commission
US total real-estate commission, encoded from the Federal Reserve's CoreLogic-MLS study: buyer's-agent side averages ~2.7% nationally, and t…
$21,600 Federal Reserve Board — FEDS Note: Commissions and Omissions: Trends in Real Estate Broker Compensation (May 2025, CoreLogic MLS data) (as of 2026-07-20)
Withholding at closing on the sale
FIRPTA withholding (IRC §1445): when a foreign person disposes of a US real property interest, the BUYER must withhold 15% of the amount rea…
Cash withheld at closing, credited against the tax liability itemised above — not an additional tax.
$60,000* IRS — FIRPTA withholding (as of 2026-07-20); Legal Information Institute — 26 U.S. Code §1445 (as of 2026-07-20)
State withholding at closing Not applicable — No Nevada closing withholding on nonresident sellers: the Dept of Taxation's tax-type enumeration lists no withholding tax, and with no indi… NV Dept of Taxation — tax-type enumeration (no withholding present) (as of 2026-07-25)

Thresholds & informational

ItemAmountSource
US estate-tax exposure (non-resident)
US estate tax exposure for NRA holding US real estate directly (IRC §§2101-2108): exemption is effectively $60,000 of US-situated assets ($1…
Threshold: $60,000 IRS — Some nonresidents with U.S. assets must file estate tax returns (as of 2026-07-20); IRS — Instructions for Form 706-NA (as of 2026-07-20); IRS — Estate tax for nonresidents not citizens of the United States (as of 2026-07-20)
Tax-treaty caveat
The US has income-tax treaties with ~65 countries and estate/gift-tax treaties with ~15; a treaty can lower the 30% gross rental withholding…
treaty_dependent IRS — United States income tax treaties A to Z (as of 2026-07-20); IRS — Estate & gift tax treaties (international) (as of 2026-07-20)

Not yet sourced for this jurisdiction: tax.luxury_property_pct, cost.closing_pct — shown as gaps above, never guessed.

Permitting & construction timelines

This city does not publish permit-level application-and-issuance dates in a free public feed — a city-level issuance median cannot be computed honestly, so none is shown.

Construction timeline benchmark (West region, 2025): permit → start 1.3 mo single-family / 1.4 mo multifamily; start → completion 8.3 mo / 19.2 mo.
West Census region average, 2025 — the finest geography this survey publishes · US Census Bureau & HUD, Survey of Construction — Length of Time tables (2025 annual) (as of 2026-07-25)

Registry evidence

No active registry watch covers this neighborhood yet — registry-level sale evidence (county recorder / land-department feeds) is shown only where a live watch exists, never estimated.

Legislation watch

Closed-comp benchmark

Fewer than 5 usable closed transactions on record for this neighborhood — no benchmark is computed from a thin sample.

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