Nevada HOA & condo associations in court: the numbers

Nevada on the map

248 of the 672 communities with court records (rings, coloured by their most common case type) have an address or ZIP in the record and are drawn here; the rest have no location in any record and are not on the map, but stay searchable. Click a pin for the community's report, or open the full-screen map.

HOA Spy indexes 2,208 Nevada homeowner and condominium associations. 672 of them appear in 1,258 court records — 0 from county and state trial courts, 168 from appellate courts and 1,090 from federal dockets. Nevada ranks 9th of the 15 states with the most court records on HOA Spy. Every number on this page is computed from official court and county records; data as of 2026-10-02.

The facts

• Ten associations account for 10% of all Nevada court records on file. At the other end, 400 of the 672 communities with any record appear in exactly one case.
• Nevada associations are mostly on the receiving end: the defendant in 611 records against 166 as plaintiff.
• The busiest year on file was 2016, with 444 records. The last full year, 2025, had 8 — down 67% on 2020 (24).
• Property cases make up 38% of the records (474): property and condominium disputes. Next come Foreclosure cases (276).
• HOA Spy indexes no Nevada trial court yet, so these are appellate decisions (168) and federal dockets (1,090) only — the county-court suits where most HOA litigation happens are not counted here.
• 37 records are fair-housing, disability-accommodation or other civil-rights suits — the kind of case a buyer with a service animal or an accessibility request should know about.
• The 1,342 associations with a registered unit count hold 209,332 units between them.
• Among the 1,042 closed cases with both dates on the docket, half were over within 838 days.

What the cases are about

Each court record is labelled by its nature of suit the way the map colours it. Nevada's 1,258 records break down as:

• Property474 · 38%
• Foreclosure276 · 22%
• Other243 · 19%
• Appellate168 · 13%
• Civil Rights37 · 3%
• Collections32 · 3%
• Insurance21 · 2%
• Tax4 · 0%
• Labor3 · 0%

Property: property and condominium disputes · Foreclosure: the association foreclosing its lien, or named in a lender's foreclosure · Other: dockets that carry no nature of suit or one outside these groups (county civil dockets often say only "civil") · Appellate: decisions of the state's appellate courts · Civil Rights: fair-housing, disability-accommodation and other civil-rights claims · Collections: assessment, debt and contract claims · Insurance: coverage disputes with an insurer · Tax: tax matters · Labor: employment and labor claims

Who is suing whom

The side comes from the role the court recorded for the association where the docket gives one, otherwise from which side of the “v.” the association's name sits. Appeals, petitions and association-versus-association captions stay undetermined.

Filings by year

court records · 2026 is partial

The oldest records on file date from 1954. Years reflect the filing date on the docket (the decision date for appellate opinions); records with no date are left out. Coverage grows as courts are added, so part of any rise is HOA Spy reaching more dockets — see the sources below.

Where the cases are

The county is the community's own (from its registration or ZIP), not the court's. Courts with the most Nevada records: District Court, D. Nevada (1,084); Nevada Supreme Court (168); Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (4); Supreme Court of the United States (2).

Associations with the most court records

A long record is not by itself a verdict on a community: a large association collecting assessments through the courts can have hundreds of small-claims entries. Open the profile to see what the cases are and who brought them.

How Nevada compares

The states with the most court records on HOA Spy. The share column is the part of each state's indexed communities that appear in at least one case; it depends on which courts are indexed there as much as on the communities themselves.

Where this data comes from

• Federal dockets and state appellate opinions: CourtListener (RECAP archive and bulk data, snapshot 2026-09-30)
• Association roster: Clark County / Henderson / Las Vegas GIS HOA layers (NRED-registered associations) (1,835 records)
• IRS roster: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File (33 records)
• Not collected: NRED common-interest-community (HOA) registration list — no download published; license lookup app is bot-protected
• Not collected: SOS corporate bulk — paid subscription
• Not collected: Clark County recorder index — bulk extracts paid

Most HOA litigation happens in state trial courts, which have no national index; HOA Spy reads the portals it can. A Nevada community outside the indexed courts can have cases this page does not count. Names are matched conservatively, so an ambiguous match is left out rather than guessed. Sources & methodology.

Questions people ask

How many HOA lawsuits are filed in Nevada each year?

In 2025, the last full year, 8 court records naming a Nevada community association were filed in the courts HOA Spy indexes; the five-year average is 10 a year. The busiest year on file is 2016 with 444.

Which Nevada associations have the most court cases?

By records on file: Southern Highlands Community Association (30); ELKHORN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (16); Highland Ranch Homeowners Association (13).

Do Nevada HOAs sue homeowners more than they get sued?

In the records with a known side, the association was the plaintiff 166 times and the defendant 611 times. Suits brought by associations are typically assessment collection and lien enforcement; suits against them typically come from owners, insurers or lenders.

How do I check a specific Nevada HOA?

Search it by name on HOA Spy: the report lists every lien, case and complaint on file with a link to the official record, and says which sources were checked. Communities with records also have a profile page under the Nevada directory. Data as of 2026-10-02.