The 2010-2011 tax rolls have been published by the Clark County assessor’s office, and they show that Las Vegas industrial space has been the poorest performing category in commercial real estate.
The assessed values for all property in Clark County fell 26 percent from $90.8 billion in 2009-2010 to $67.1 billion, and within this the assessed value of industrial land fell 20.5 percent from $3.1 billion to $2.5 billion. This is a sharper decline that in the commercial sector as a whole (down 15 percent), but it is still less of a decline that that of residential property, which dropped 26 percent from $48.4 billion to $35.7 billion.
Industrial assessed values fell 22.2 percent in Las Vegas, 22.2 percent in North Las Vegas, and 19 percent in Henderson. It is typical for changes in commercial real estate pricing to trail those in the residential sector, whether they will see the same steep declines of Las Vegas residential remains to be seen.