Property owners filed a record number of property tax assessment appeals this year, county officials said Thursday. The number of appeals filed was up 13.8 percent compared to last year — 9,450 appeals compared to 8,302 in 2010, officials said.
Attorneys for Bank of America moved Tuesday to overturn a court ruling from Nye County blocking foreclosures statewide by Bank of America subsidiary ReconTrust Company N.A.
Nearly one in four people in Nevada who lost their homes to foreclosure have admitting to walking away even though they could afford their monthly payments, according to a study released today by the Nevada Association of Realtors.
The Howard Hughes Corporation is continuing to build out its Las Vegas Valley properties in the Summerlin master-planned community following a split late last year from its former parent company.
Bank of America faces another lawsuit in Las Vegas alleging it deceived a homeowner about a loan modification -- the homeowner in this case being prominent Las Vegas attorney Matthew Callister.
The Henderson Planning Commission unanimously denied an application for an Arco gas station to be built at the corner of Whitney Ranch Drive and Sunset Road during its monthly meeting Thursday night.
Mine is a nice house. Big enough for a family and all of its furniture and clothing and toys and books and papers and dogs and more books and miscellaneous junk and even a cat.
The Henderson Planning Commission unanimously granted a two-year extension to start construction at the Della Montagna development at Lake Las Vegas during its monthly meeting Thursday night.
The Nevada construction industry is urging state lawmakers to increase tax revenue and stop raiding existing funds to better finance infrastructure projects and create 100,000 jobs.
A Las Vegas housing analyst said today the new home industry should expect a tepid recovery over the next five years and predicted existing home prices won’t improve for about five to six years.
The Las Vegas commercial real estate market remains troubled as the recession persists locally — and that’s reflected in three new bankruptcy filings in 2011. Among the latest to file for bankruptcy was Vegas Tomatoes Inc., which filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on Jan. 12 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Nevada.
