Good morning, and thanks for reading Friday Figures! All information from the GLVAR MLS system. Let’s check out what you and your Realtor should know about local market conditions before touring, making an offer, or listing a home in the Las Vegas Valley this weekend. Summary: Available inventory continues to drop, both in distressed and [...]

Many newer communities across the nation have homeowners associations (HOA), landscape maintenance associations (LMA), or some other type of Common Interest Community (CIC). For some years, Nevada has required that buyers in any sort of CIC get a chance to inspect the rules before buying. It’s only fair, because these rules restrict the way owners [...]

Yes, it’s Friday again, and time for Friday Figures! All information from the GLVAR MLS system. This is what Vegas Realtors and real estate clients need to know about local market conditions before touring, making an offer, or listing a home this weekend. Summary: Inventory of available homes continues to drop to 13552 units. Meanwhile, pending [...]

You just missed them. Right above this line of text. That blank spot? That’s it! In a market like this one, where everybody is out to get a real estate deal before it’s too late, a lot of people are looking for an edge — a way to get the great deals that nobody knows [...]

Welcome to Friday Figures! All information from the GLVAR MLS system. Here’s what you and your Realtor should know about Vegas real estate market conditions before touring, making an offer, or listing a home this weekend. Summary: The most important thing to remember is that interest rates are rising. My sources tell me that FHA [...]

Because Vegas has lost jobs over the last year, our population is down. And that in turn has caused apartment vacancy rates to rise and rents have dropped to 2006 levels. Economist and real estate expert Robert Shiller (whose name you may recall from the Case-Shiller index) says that real estate prices will continue to [...]

T.G.I.F., it’s Friday Figures! All information from the GLVAR MLS system. It’s everything you and your Realtor should know about Vegas real estate market conditions before touring, making an offer, or listing a home this weekend. Summary: Available inventory continues to drop, while median prices on on those listings remains stable (median prices overall dropped [...]

For some weeks we’ve all been trying to figure out how, exactly, the powers that be were going to implement using the first time buyers tax credit as a downpayment. The answer is they won’t. From a CNN editorial: “Seems there was plenty of push back that allowing borrowers to land a mortgage without any ‘skin [...]