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The Nevada Supreme Court has sided with banks by validating a key cog in the foreclosure enforcement machinery that has sparked legal disputes all over the country.
You are a loser, and so am I. Everyone lost something when the Southern Nevada housing market caved in five years ago. Mostly what we lost was money – almost $113 billion of it, according to a rough estimate by a top real estate expert at UNLV.
The state Tax Commission on Monday turned down Treasurer Kate Marshall’s request that Nevada begin collecting real property transfer taxes on mortgages guaranteed by the federal Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac companies.
A former Las Vegas real estate agent was sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison Friday as the mastermind of a mortgage fraud conspiracy that cost financial institutions more than $24 million.
U.S. District Judge James Mahan on Tuesday unsealed and consolidated the cases against 14 new defendants in the federal investigation into fraud and corruption at Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
