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From affluent suburbs to inner-city neighborhoods, no part of Las Vegas was left unscathed by the precipitous drop in home values last year. Some suffered more than others, but everybody lost ground.
Wall Street analysts and Las Vegas real estate professionals say a slight thawing in the frozen Strip high-rise residential market might be taking place.
Realtors sold 2,608 single-family homes in Las Vegas during January, a 17.3 percent increase from the same month a year ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.
New-home sales in Las Vegas are projected to increase to about 5,400 in 2010 and the median price should be close to $220,000 by the end of the year, a slight bump from December’s median of $216,000, housing analyst Dennis Smith said Thursday.
A drop in Las Vegas apartment rents may be sobering news for landlords and owners, but it comes at the right time for budget-conscious renters in the worst economic times since the Great Depression.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is sending eight additional employees to Las Vegas to help the city deal with the home foreclosure crisis, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Monday.
President Barack Obama’s first-year grades have dropped significantly in the subject of the U.S. housing market, a survey by California-based Trulia.com showed Tuesday.
Las Vegas is an extremely complex housing market with a two-tiered situation as far as residential appraisers are concerned, the president of Chicago-based Appraisal Institute said Tuesday.
Look for this year to mirror 2006 with zero percent appreciation and home prices skipping along the bottom, housing analyst Larry Murphy said Thursday at his quarterly Crystal Ball presentation.
A Las Vegas housing analyst says he doesn’t know of any possible scenario that would suggest things are going to improve drastically over the next year. There are too many negative factors and not enough positives, he says.
For the first time in 27 years, the International Builders Show won’t feature The New American Home, a showcase of the latest home-building concepts, materials and construction techniques that eventually find their way into production homes across the nation. … The home being built by Domanico Custom Homes of Las Vegas was on schedule for completion in time for the industry trade show that runs through Friday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. … Then it got caught up in the credit crisis that has hammered the home-building industry. The private lender that was financing the project ran into its own credit problems and had to withdraw funding. … That’s a pretty good indication of what lies ahead for homebuilders in 2010 and beyond.
Since July, foreclosure has claimed 38,277 Nevada homes, but less than 10 percent of the owners have taken advantage of the state’s innovative Foreclosure Mediation Program, according to the latest statistics provided by Bill Gang, public information officer for the Nevada Supreme Court.