The Summit

About The Summit

The Summit is the product of a partnership between Discovery Land Company — the Scottsdale-based developer behind some of North America's most exclusive private club communities — and the Howard Hughes Corporation, which developed much of Summerlin. Positioned in the southwestern reaches of the master plan at the foot of the Spring Mountains, The Summit was conceived as a community where the club experience is inseparable from the residential one: membership in The Summit Club is the organizing principle of community life, and the Tom Fazio-designed course is the centerpiece. The development occupies terrain with direct sightlines to Red Rock Canyon and features homes designed to complement the desert landscape rather than impose on it. Discovery Land's playbook — refined at properties like Gozzer Ranch and Saguaro — emphasizes curated programming, exceptional facilities, and a membership that is intentionally kept small. In the Las Vegas context, The Summit represents a singular offering: international-caliber private-club amenities at the edge of one of the most dramatic desert landscapes in the American Southwest.

Living in The Summit

Life at The Summit revolves around the club in the fullest sense: the golf course, the clubhouse, the curated social calendar, and the shared sense of a community where everyone belongs because they have chosen to. Discovery Land's model is built on programming and hospitality as much as real estate, and The Summit reflects that — residents describe it as a place where the amenities feel genuinely personal rather than institutional. The surrounding Summerlin infrastructure — Downtown Summerlin, the 215 Beltway, Las Vegas-area airports — keeps The Summit connected to city life without diminishing the sense of retreat. For the course itself, including the five holes that define Fazio's routing, see our Summit Club course review.

What it means to own at The Summit

The figures in this section were reported in press coverage and developer materials in spring 2026, when our standalone Summit Club article was published; that article now lives here. Verify current pricing with the club and a licensed Nevada agent.

The Summit carries 146 custom home lots across its elevated terrain. Lot pricing was reported to average around $3 million, with premium canyon-view and Strip-view sites reaching $10 million before a foundation is poured; Switch chief executive Rob Roy acquired five acres in 2023 for a reported $33 million. Beyond custom lots, the community offers roughly 262 production residences across several product types. Desert Bungalows run about 3,490 to 3,512 square feet across three to four bedrooms, each with a private pool and spa. Golf Cottages scale up slightly, 4,035 to 4,542 square feet over two storeys, while Point Villas and Desert Villas push past 5,000 square feet with guesthouse configurations. Clubhouse and Canyon Suites deliver condominium-style living with subterranean parking and penthouse-level views. Entry through a Golf Cottage or Desert Bungalow was reported in the $5 million-plus range; the upper tier, as the sales records show, has no visible ceiling.

Membership carries its own costs: reported initiation fees of $250,000 to $400,000, annual dues in the $110,000 to $120,000 range, and HOA fees of about $30,000 a year. This is Discovery Land Company's model. The golf course is not an amenity bolted onto a housing development; the community exists to make the membership meaningful, and the membership defines who lives here. How that compares with every other Las Vegas private club is in our membership-cost guide.

The record-breaking sales

In May 2024 a 1.5-acre estate inside The Summit changed hands for $35 million, a Las Vegas residential record that broke the previous mark set the year before by Celine Dion's 31,000-square-foot mansion at the same address, which sold for $30 million in 2023. Two consecutive all-time records, in the same community, within twelve months. According to Las Vegas Review-Journal reporting, the top six residential sales in Las Vegas during 2024 were all Summit transactions. Late in 2024, Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher purchased a seven-bedroom estate with a private theatre and wellness room for a reported $29.25 million. Mark Wahlberg, Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley and Raiders and Aces owner Mark Davis are among the community's reported residents.

These numbers reflect scarcity rather than coincidence. There is no other invitation-only private golf community in Las Vegas, so The Summit operates without competition in its category, and that structural advantage compounds.

Life inside the gates

Discovery Land built the amenity programme around a simple premise: residents should have no reason to leave unless they choose to. A spa, full fitness centre, yoga studio, steam rooms and sauna anchor the wellness side. A resort-style pool with private cabanas sits beside tennis and pickleball courts, and the indoor list extends to a basketball court, bowling alley, cinema and a Kids Club. The Outdoor Pursuits programme reaches beyond the walls: Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area sits directly behind the property for guided hiking, with Lake Mead wakeboarding and Mount Charleston skiing within an hour's drive and organised as member excursions. The clubhouse, stone and glass designed to frame views rather than compete with them, houses formal and casual dining and a terrain-to-table programme that sources regionally.

The combination of terrain, elevation and privacy produces something unusual for Las Vegas: quiet. The Strip is nine miles away and invisible from most of the property. At dawn on Fazio's par-3 fifth, before the heat builds, the silence is the luxury.

Who The Summit is for

The Summit is not a community for buyers exploring the upper end of the Summerlin market. It is the market's outer limit, the place where the luxury spectrum terminates. Realistic entry requires not only the financial capacity but the sponsorship of an existing member, which means the social architecture is as carefully managed as the physical one. Start with the club's official site, then engage a licensed Nevada real estate professional with specific Summit transaction experience.

For the rest of the Summerlin golf-real-estate spectrum, from the guard-gated fairway homes of Red Rock Country Club to the tournament-adjacent addresses of Tournament Hills beside TPC Summerlin, The Summit is the ceiling from which everything else is measured. Our ranking of Las Vegas golf communities and the buyer's guide to golf-course homes cover the tiers below it.

Homes & Featured Agents

Featured listings and local real-estate agents for The Summit are coming soon. In the meantime, browse our Real Estate & Golf Living section for community overviews, or contact us to be connected with a Summerlin specialist.