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Study: Las Vegas Ranks Number One In Real Estate Search

August 16, 2023 2:02 pmAugust 20, 2023 4:16 pm

RedFin, a real estate search engine, conducted a study based on two million searches for homes between April 2023 and June 2023 and found that Las Vegas was the most sought after location for “western migrants.” According to the study, a Redfin.com user counts as a migrant if they viewed...

Controller Matthews Slams Biden’s ‘Reckless’ New Mortgage Policy

May 3, 2023 3:31 pmMay 4, 2023 10:00 am

Nevada Controller Andy Matthews joined a coalition of 34 state financial officers in signing a letter to the Biden administration criticizing a new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy that will make it more expensive for people with good credit to buy homes. Within the letter (see below), the financial officers...

Report: Nevada Ranks 17th In Housing Affordability

August 8, 2022 3:30 pm

The National Low Income Housing Coalition recently released their annual “Out of Reach” report which “documents the significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing across the United States. The report’s central statistic, the Housing Wage, is an estimate of the hourly wage a full-time worker must...

Nevada Housing Authority Earmarks $300 Million for Affordable Housing

February 17, 2022 5:26 pmFebruary 23, 2022 12:39 pm

In the past year, rents have skyrocketed throughout Nevada. On average, rents in Las Vegas and Reno have increased 24% and 19% respectively. Nationally, the average increase for a one-bedroom apartment is 11.6%. Governor Steve Sisolak and his Democratic constituents and some of his challengers want to solve this problem...