WASHINGTON — The number of homeowners stung by the dramatic decline in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by more than 50 percent compared with the same month a year ago, according to data being released today.
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With walls made of insulated concrete forms and a gas-powered air conditioning system, the New American Home being built by Las Vegas-based Blue Heron sets an example for other home builders around the globe, project manager Kris Oesterling said.
Home sales in Las Vegas increased for the seventh straight month to 2,592 in July, the most since September 2005, and inventory remained stable at 23,423 units, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Thursday.
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Average apartment rent has remained relatively flat in Las Vegas with occupancy down slightly from a year ago, Las Vegas-based Applied Analysis research firm reported.
Foreclosures have doubled in Las Vegas from a year ago and the next wave of adjustable-rate mortgage resets could deepen the misery for an already severely depressed housing market, experts in the housing industry said.
Ah, 2009.
The year of the city’s rebirth, when tens upon thousands of new residents march toward Las Vegas to fill new resort jobs, thereby lifting the housing market out of its doldrums.
The new housing recovery law gives a glint of hope to homeowners facing foreclosure, but local business leaders doubt it will help many Southern Nevadans.
WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the nation’s severe housing recession could be approaching a bottom.
NEW YORK — Nevada was near the top as the number of households facing foreclosure more than doubled in the second quarter compared with a year ago, according to data released Friday.
WASHINGTON — The House Wednesday easily approved legislation that seeks to slow the steepest slide in house prices in a generation, rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure and reassure global markets that mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not be allowed to fail.
It takes patience and understanding to muddle through the process of buying a home in short sale, local real estate experts said.
The on-again, off-again discussion about merging the valley’s three public housing agencies into a single “superagency” as a cost-saving measure is on again, this time being actively pursued by a couple of Clark County commissioners.
New-home sales in Las Vegas have been consistently low over the past six months and appear to have reached the bottom of the current down cycle, a local housing analyst said Wednesday.
