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Rental housing prices down 8.2 percent in Las Vegas

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.

Extra staff to fight foreclosures

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.

Obama’s housing marks slipping

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.

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Appraisal experts say Las Vegas a complex market

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.

Analyst: Area home prices to remain near bottom in 2010

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.

Housing haunted by sales statistics

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.

Observer sees more suffering

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.

Few take part in foreclosure mediation

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.

Area housing market won’t completely recover until 2012

The housing market in Las Vegas won’t fully recover until the first quarter of 2012, facing challenges this year similar to last year, high foreclosure rates and stagnant new-home sales, a housing analyst with The Concord Group said Friday.

HUD explains rebuff

A day after Southern Nevada lost out on a $367 million federal grant to help address the area’s foreclosure crisis, local officials got an explanation for the denial from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

HUD delivers a dud

Nevada’s congressional delegation demanded answers Thursday after the Las Vegas Valley did not receive a penny of nearly $2 billion in federal stimulus money aimed at helping areas most affected by the nation’s housing crisis.

Bank of America to release homes

Bank of America expects to release about 6,000 foreclosed properties into the Nevada housing market in 2010, or about 500 a month, an executive with the bank said Wednesday.

Foreclosure rate hits record high in 2009

MIAMI — A record 2.8 million households were threatened with foreclosure last year, and that number is expected to rise this year as more unemployed and cash-strapped homeowners fall behind on their mortgages.

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