Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy is one thing. Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy while finding time to volunteer at an animal shelter, compete in triathlons, help a child through a kidney transplant or battle cancer? That’s another level of achievement altogether.
The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Richard Vap, who owns a drywall installation company. Vap would love to help — if he could hire enough qualified people.
What goes down must come up.
LOS ANGELES — Six years after the start of the foreclosure crisis, American homeowners are paying their mortgages like the housing crash never happened although Nevada borrowers still rank in the top five for delinquencies.
WASHINGTON — Residential real-estate prices increased in February by the most since May 2006, and Las Vegas showed the biggest adjusted monthly increase with prices climbing 2 percent.
It took husband and wife Rob and A.J. Tuttle half an hour to walk around the unfinished penthouse for sale at the top of Panorama Tower II.
WASHINGTON — U.S. sales of new homes rose in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 417,000. The increase added to evidence of a sustained housing recovery at the start of the spring buying season.
A sluggish economy compounded by legislative and regulatory issues haven’t put a damper on the expectations of attorneys in Las Vegas. Most admit the industry shrank significantly during the recession, but adaptation has allowed many to survive.
WASHINGTON — U.S. housing starts topped the
1 million mark in March for the first time since June 2008. The gain signals continued strength for the housing recovery at the start of the spring buying season.
Often when buying a home, people will scour the Internet hoping to find the perfect house in Henderson.
The Las Vegas Valley housing market has been getting a lot of ink in the last few years, and until recently little of it has been positive. The valley was the tip of the spear point for the housing crisis, building up to spectacular highs and dropping just as dramatically. As the valley struggles through recovery, Sunrise and Whitney, with many older and well-established neighborhoods, have their own challenges.
It’s not normal, but it’s normal for now. That was the word Friday on Southern Nevada’s residential real estate market, with a panel of experts at the Las Vegas Housing Outlook telling an audience of sales agents, builders and lenders they can expect more investors and higher prices in the next year.
LOS ANGELES — The number of U.S. homes repossessed by lenders last month fell to the lowest level in more than five years, the latest evidence that the nation’s foreclosure crisis is abating amid an improving housing market.
You’ve probably forgotten what a normal housing economy looks like.
The 6,000 “zombie foreclosures” are just a subset of the estimated 40,481 vacant single-family homes in the Las Vegas Valley, said Marcus Conklin, associate director of the Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
