Housing
When Pardee Homes built its first house in Las Vegas, nobody had heard of Elvis and you could talk to Howard Hughes without a Ouija board.
Irene Porter is retiring effective July 1 after nearly 35 years as executive director of the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association.
House hunters can’t be as picky in Las Vegas today as they were a year ago, especially if they’re looking for a bargain on a foreclosure home. There’s actually a shortage of those homes, roughly one month’s supply at current sales levels, local Realtors say.
WASHINGTON — People who have lost their homes in foreclosure could be given another chance to buy a house under a bill introduced Thursday in Congress.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama unveiled mortgage relief efforts Tuesday, including several aimed at helping service members trapped in the housing downturn or victimized by lenders.
Once identified as ground zero for mortgage fraud, Las Vegas no longer is among the nation’s top five regions for mortgage fraud per capita, according to CoreLogic, a consumer financial information and research firm.