Housing Market Trends in Las Vegas 2024-2025

Housing Market Trends in Las Vegas 2024-2025

March 20th, 2024:

Las Vegas housing is starting the year off strong. The market has picked up over the past month, interest rates have dropped about 1%, and inventory of single-family homes has dropped about 10% over that same period. The imbalance of supply vs demand is holding single-family home prices at an elevated level.

The recent decline in mortgage rates is creating a situation where buyer demand is surpassing the supply of new listings entering the market. This is causing a decline in supply and the average days on market is dropping in tandem.

The emerging data reinforces the shift that has been a consistent topic of discussion for the past few months. This trend is anticipated to persist and gather momentum in the coming months as rates continue to decrease.

Here are some article links referencing the economic growth and long-term sustainability of the Las Vegas housing market:
 
 
 

The 2024 Las Vegas housing market is active and experiencing a shortage of supply.

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Las Vegas is Experiencing a Post-Pandemic Market Stabilization.

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So What Just Happened with Las Vegas Real Estate?

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing.
 
Within two years, from 2021 to 2022, the Las Vegas market skyrocketed, with single-family residential housing units posting a median price of $482,000—a gain of more than 50 percent by May 2022. 
 
In 2022, the national economy was white hot and characterized by supply chain challenges, low unemployment, and 40-year high inflation.
 
The Fed’s actions to tamp down the economy and get these dynamics in check have resulted in rising interest rates, including residential mortgage rates.
 
The doubling of mortgage pricing quickly put downward pressure on consumer buying power.
 
While the shift feels like the bottom is falling out, the reality is that today’s Las Vegas real estate market dynamics are much different than they were in the mid-2000s.
 
Today, the demand side of the equation remains stable, with more than 70,000 people choosing to move into Southern Nevada in the past year.
 
Assuming these trends hold, new residents should generate incremental demand for housing going forward.
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Why did the Las Vegas market surge 50% during the pandemic?

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iBuyers, Institutional Investors and Pandemic Migration...

Increased household formations, institutional investors, iBuyers, pandemic migration, low-interest rates, and government policy helped create a 24-month perfect storm to inflate real estate values in Las Vegas during 2021 and 2022.
 

 

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The Post Pandemic Real Estate Market = elevated prices and increased rental rates.

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Institutional Investors

Following the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, corporations and institutional investors sought to increase their acquisitions of residential real estate, including single-family rentals (SFRs).

However, concerns are emerging that history could repeat itself. According to a report from MetLife Investment Management in 2022, within a span of just seven years, up to 40% of single-family rental homes could be owned and controlled by Wall Street entities.

This situation could potentially present challenges not only for regular renters but also for the broader economy. 

An excellent read on this topic was authored by Ryan Dezember, a book called Underwater. Single family home landlords are shifting from “mom and pop” operations to Wall St. titans – virgin territory among financial authors. In Las Vegas, a few hedge funds have setup shop. They’re vacuuming-up all the investment houses and inflating prices. As a result, the traditional “buy-and-hold” SFR rental model is topsy-turvied. This model is replicated across the country, and has portentous omens for the future of residential real estate. (The “Great Recession – Part Deaux!”).

Since the early 2010s, Tricon Residential, Progress Residential, American Homes 4 Rent and Invitation Homes have each bought thousands of homes. They’ve also added to the housing supply in some cases with built-for-rent communities.

What about these entire purpose-built “build to rent” (BTR) neighborhoods across Las Vegas? Think apartment buildings but single-family home neighborhoods instead….every neighbor is a renter. 

Institutional Investors in Las Vegas

Home Prices are Up.

Rent Rates are Up.

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To further understand the recent housing trends in Las Vegas, here’s a summary of supply and demand.

Pandemic Supply and Demand

  • Shortage of new homes built during the recession of 2008-2012.
  • Increase in household formations during the pandemic due to the need for more space, work-from-home trends, pandemic separations, divorces, etc.
  • Mass migration to the sunbelt states like Las Vegas due to a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
  • Institutional investors such as Progressive Residential and Invitation Homes (Blackstone Group) swooped into our market and purchased the entry-level SFRs.  During the peak, their purchase price was capped at around $475k. Some institutional investors overpaid for houses to get units, as they had quarterly quotas.
  • Individual investors entered our market from 2010-2022. Cash investors own many detached single-family homes, and Tenants occupy these rental houses.
  •  Governor mandated eviction moratorium through May 31st, 2021. Landlords could not serve eviction notices to get Tenants out, which limited the housing supply. This was extended multiple times but is no longer in effect.
  • Governor limited property rights in 2020 and 2021 by forbidding landlords from serving 30-day “no cause” notices to vacate if a tenant was delinquent on rent. Landlords were having difficulty gaining control of their properties, which limited supply
  • Pandemic Migration: Many houses were rented to people moving to Las Vegas from out of state for remote work or other reasons. Las Vegas saw an unprecedented increase in demand. 
  • Historically low interest rates.
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In 2024, housing prices are proving resilient.

 

 

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Rental Market Trends

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25%-40% rent increases occurred between Fall 2020 and Spring 2022

 

 

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Rental housing demand remains strong in Las Vegas, Summerlin and Henderson, NV.
 
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