JPMorgan Chase will pay $50 million as part of a national settlement agreement to compensate homeowners in bankruptcy over the use of robo-signing and other improper practices, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
Housing
If you’re surprised to hear construction has been under way for more than two years at Henderson’s Cadence master plan, well, that’s kind of how developer The Landwell Co. wanted it. LandWell worked below the radar in the downturn to prepare for the day when the market would be ready for Cadence.
Investors retreated in droves from Nevada’s housing market in the fourth quarter.
What do you do when sales haven’t budged in two years? You sell harder.
CARSON CITY — Suggesting that Nevada’s construction defect law has benefited attorneys rather than homeowners, lawmakers and construction industry representatives testified in support of a bill Wednesday that they said would fix problems with the law.
New numbers show that Southern Nevada’s housing market began 2015 on solid footing. Housing prices jumped in January even as the market slowed and fewer homes sold, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Monday.
Neither sluggish employment gains nor slower-than-normal economic growth are likely to restrain consumer demand for homes in 2015 and 2016.
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A Tuesday report from a national real estate research firm ranked Las Vegas No. 1 for its share of boomerang buyers — home buyers who experienced foreclosure or short sale in the downturn but are set to purchase again.
Paul Johnson Drywall of Phoenix has bought a 6,500-square-foot office building at 5957 McLeod Drive for a Las Vegas location, with plans to bring on as many as 100 office and field staff members by the end of the first quarter.
The 11,500-member Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors announced Monday that it has named Michele Caprio chief executive officer.
The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that the traditionally slow holiday season brought a slight uptick in local home prices.
While 2014 was an important year for Summerlin, 2015 promises to be even bigger for the massive master-plan along the Las Vegas Valley’s western edge. Officials with the community’s developer, The Howard Hughes Corp., said they’re poised to build on the momentum of the October opening of Downtown Summerlin.
WASHINGTON — U.S. home resales tumbled to a six-month low in November after two straight months of strong increases, underscoring the uneven nature of the housing market recovery.
Nevada’s real estate market may be recovering, but mortgage fraud isn’t going away. The Silver State ranked No. 2 for the fourth straight year on LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Mortgage Fraud Index, which measures investigations of fraud among mortgage professionals.