Canyon Lake Ranch was once a playground for Christian day campers, and then was a corporate retreat with water-skiing, barbecues and cowboy shoot-’em-up shows. Hawks now circle above 108 sunbaked acres occupied by copperhead snakes, a few coyotes and the occasional construction truck. Soon this ranch will be a gated subdivision of 99 mini-mansions designed […]
The comeback of the US housing market has been one of the most bullish themes of the post-financial-crisis era. And for the bulls, it continues to be a bright spot in an otherwise slowing US economy in a slowing global economy. But in a chilling 88-page industry note, Barclays analyst Stephen Kim warns that the bullish tale spun by […]
When it comes to interest rates, what goes down eventually must go up. And as interest rates begin moving back up to more “normal” levels, that could spell trouble for home prices. When the bottom fell out of the housing market in 2007, the Federal Reserve responded by pushing borrowing rates to record low levels. […]
According to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors (GLVAR), the Las Vegas housing market is increasingly becoming more stable with Southern Nevada home prices remaining about 8 percent higher than they were a year ago.GLVAR reported the median price of homes sold in February 2015 was $205,000. That was up 2.5 percent from an […]
