las vegas: Las Vegas luxury condo market warming up for new day - mortgage money still scarce - 11/22/09 05:38 PM
Southern Nevada - with communities of Mountains Edge, Summerlin, Henderson, Southern Highlands, North Las Vegas, Anthem and Green Valley - condominium segment bubbled up a little later than the single-family side, but its slide became equally devastating once it hit the slope down. Mortgage financing dried suddenly up, oversupply was horrendous … (6 comments)
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las vegas: Expanded tax credit enticing - Henderson mortgage applicants be advised - 11/20/09 12:05 AM
The drama is over for Las Vegas valley's - including Summerlin, Southern Highlands, Green Valley, North Las Vegas, Anthem and Mountain's Edge - residents. The first-time home buyer tax credit has been extended because many considered it a strong demand booster for the ailing housing market and more of the same … (2 comments)
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las vegas: Mortgage lenders rated lower by loan applicants - 11/17/09 05:45 PM
The housing debacle in Las Vegas and throughout the country is testing consumers' patience in a major way. Real estate values have eroded without mercy in many areas, to the tune of double digit percentages. Some Southern Nevada - featuring Summerlin, Mountains Edge, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Pahrump, Southern Highlands and … (4 comments)
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las vegas: Mortgage lender "walkaways" the latest scheme - Las Vegas mortgage borrowers take note - 11/12/09 10:59 PM
The real estate meltdown that continues to churn on has already seen some vein-popping scenarios concocted by many mortgage banks seeking to take advantage of homeowners facing foreclosure. And new ones keep surfacing. One of the latest creations could be called a home loan provider "walkaway", because that's what it really … (6 comments)
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las vegas: Southern Nevada - Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin - housing stats on the mend in October - 11/10/09 04:47 PM
Las Vegas real estate has recently been the punching bag of many industry observers and for a good reason. Mortgage foreclosure rate here is still reaching for the moon, housing inventory remains high and the economic picture is painted in dark colors. True, mortgage rates are enticing and home prices have plunged … (10 comments)
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las vegas: Southern Highlands - Las Vegas NV - mortgage recipients have new foreclosure defense weapon - 11/07/09 10:25 PM
Southern Nevada - with communities of Henderson, Anthem, Summerlin, Green Valley, Silverado Ranch and Mountains Edge - is in the very eye of the tornado when it comes to real estate markets sucked into its furious spin. Home loan foreclosures here are now as commonly talked about as the weather. Many … (4 comments)
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las vegas: Home loan modifications turn creative - Las Vegas mortgage borrowers could benefit - 11/05/09 08:22 PM
Mortgage lenders and servicers have generally been going at a snail's pace, or slower, in modifying homeowners' loans. Many applications to do so have been actually declined for a variety of reasons. Some borrowers have just plain given up on the process due to all the hoops they have to jump … (10 comments)
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las vegas: Las Vegas mortgage defaults increasingly strategic - mortgage walkaways rise among wealthy - 11/03/09 05:12 PM
The real estate market has been cruel, to be perfectly honest, to homeowners across the country. Housing values in many cities and regions have dropped so far and fast that it's sometimes hard to keep track of it all. Much less understand how the utter devastation is possible. But that is … (8 comments)
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las vegas: Using your mortgage and real estate blog to enhance existing relationships - a response to Bob's challenge - 10/30/09 06:09 PM
When I launched a monthly Las Vegas email mortgage and housing newsletter a few years ago the main challenge was to produce articles with solid content for my past customers and those who had signed up for it. The plan was to have four articles in each issue. To write in … (4 comments)
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las vegas: Subprime home loans are back - Las Vegas mortgage borrowers go FHA - 10/29/09 06:23 PM
Mortgage loans that were labeled subprime just a few years ago were partly responsible for the notorious real estate bubble. When it burst and let all the air out, the subprime product quickly disappeared from the bloodied scene. Many housing observers warmed up their fingers over keyboards and wrote all these … (10 comments)
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las vegas: Las Vegas real estate values rise thanks to Washington - 10/26/09 07:00 PM
Housing prices have been in a free fall in most sectors of the nation for a long while, much longer than any real estate expert had predicted. When mortgage financing is hard to come by and supply far outpaces demand that's usually what will follow. The weak economy is also a major … (6 comments)
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las vegas: Mortgage foreclosure will affect credit score, but how much? - 10/22/09 10:19 PM
The home loan and real estate markets we are currently slogging through are unprecedented in their severity. The last time something similar happened was so long ago that few are still here to remember it. As a result millions of people are unable to make their home loan payments and subsequently … (14 comments)
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las vegas: Las Vegas short sales can sting homeowners later on - 10/15/09 04:02 PM
Mortgage banks have been pushed between the rock and the hard place in today's reeling real estate market. They are trying to make the right moves to keep their bleeding books from totally blowing up during this perfect storm as more and more home loans go bad. To deal with that, … (8 comments)
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las vegas: Las Vegas real estate numbers show small improvements in September - 10/10/09 06:36 PM
Southern Nevada - accommodating communities like Anthem, Summerlin, Henderson, Mountains Edge, North Las Vegas, Southern Highlands and Pahrump - resale housing segment took a cautious step forward in September, after going the other way in August. A curious trend might be developing, actually so predicted by some industry experts, where the … (6 comments)
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las vegas: Las Vegas mortgage lenders to dissect MGM Mirage's CityCenter price rollbacks - 10/06/09 05:33 PM
The real estate market blowup hasn't spared any segments from its fury here in Southern Nevada - including Henderson, Anthem, Mountains Edge, Southern Highlands, Summerlin and North Las Vegas. Condominiums have been spanked as harshly as the single-family houses. Luxury high-rise condos on the Strip and elsewhere in the vast valley, thought … (6 comments)
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las vegas: Mortgage lenders now more inclined to lower principal - 10/03/09 06:47 PM
The home loan industry has been steadily resisting giving homeowners any principal reduction breaks throughout this real estate inferno.The government has been all over it to do mortgage modifications at a reasonable clip in an effort to keep the foreclosure epidemic from getting out of control. The banks have been slow … (62 comments)
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las vegas: Las Vegas claims top spot in an upbeat housing study - 10/01/09 01:31 PM
Southern Nevada - including Henderson, Summerlin, Southern Highlands, Green Valley, Mountains Edge, Anthem and North Las Vegas - has graced the pages of many publications in recent years regarding the improbable real estate meltdown and subsequent mortgage foreclosure rampage here. It usually ended up topping many of the national statistics that … (8 comments)
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las vegas: Fannie Mae tightens mortgage requirements a notch - 09/28/09 06:07 PM
The key home loan financier operating on the secondary mortgage market has seen much better days with its immense portfolio. Just like most other lending institutions it, too, has been slowly bleeding as foreclosures keep shaking its once solid foundation. So much so that Washington had to bail it out a … (8 comments)
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las vegas: Fed to continue buying mortgage securities into 2010 - 09/24/09 01:37 PM
The secondary mortgage market is the life blood of the massive housing industry. If it catches any kind of ailment, the consequences can be rather dire. A serious virus invaded it not so long ago - it can also be called the great escape of the private investor - and threatened … (2 comments)
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las vegas: Las Vegas real estate prices slow to recover? - 09/21/09 07:11 PM
Moody's Economy.com analyst believes housing values will take a long while to regain the levels they reached around 2006, the peak year of this recent ultra expansion. Prices went up at a rather steep curve and then hit the breaks and plunged at a breath-taking velocity. With that a lot of … (8 comments)
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