Is your home your biggest investment? Or is it simply your biggest expense? We’ve been told the former as far back as we can remember, but it it true today. Or was it ever true? Mind you we’re talking about your primary residence here, not real estate in general. Lots of investors have made millions…
If you’ve been watching interest rates in advance of buying a home in Las Vegas, here are a couple of good news stories for you. And one you won’t like if you’re a DACA immigrant. First the good news: As it now stands, a House committee has voted to remove the requirement that buyers pay…
Are you rich? Do you know what it takes to be considered rich where you live? If you are trying to keep up with the Joneses (or you are them), what do you earn or have that puts you in the “rich” category? One favorite determinant is accumulated wealth. If you own a million-dollar home…
After years of a squeaky tight housing market, it’s getting easier to buy a home in Las Vegas. The two biggest indicators of a shift from a sellers’ to a buyers’ market (or probably more likely a balanced one) is that the median housing price in Vegas has remained the same for three straight months.…
Renters and first-time homebuyers: Do you know what it takes to get a mortgage so you could buy a home instead of giving your money to the landlord every month? No, you don’t. At least that’s the conclusion of researchers for Fannie Mae, who discovered in a recent survey that many people who don’t own…
If you own solar panels on your roof, your house should sell for more than $9,000 than those without it. And Las Vegas homeowners with solar gain more energy benefit than other metros because it has more sun days and fewer sunlight blockers – even more than some sunny places like Phoenix or L.A. That’s…
A median priced home in San Jose California is out of reach even if you make more than $125,000. How would you like to make $125,000 a year — and still not be able to make the median mortgage payment? That’s the case in California’s most expensive real estate city, San Jose. The median…
Hal DeKeyser Nevada has the cheapest income tax requirement in the nation (zero), but did you know what the least expensive property tax states are? Once again, Nevada came in among the five least costly states in effective property taxes (tied with neighboring Utah at No. 4). So if you’re looking for real estate with…
While Hispanics make up just north of 18 percent of the U.S. population, they accounted for more than three-fifths of the growth in home ownership over the past decade, according to an annual report of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, or NAHREP. The report said Hispanics made up 39.6 percent of household…
While tech still rules in most U.S. metros for start-up activity, Vegas gets high marks for wage and population growth