Local REALTORS® have an increasingly optimistic outlook about the local housing market heading into 2017.

Multiple days every week, people line up for a chance to take a glimpse inside the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, home of the History Channel's "Pawn Stars."

Whether you're planning a trip to Las Vegas with the kids, or you're a local parent, there are plenty of family-friendly activities and recreation in the Valley, designed to get your family moving and keep you healthy, happy and active. Moreover, family-friendly Las Vegas is being heralded as one of the hottest investment opportunities in the nation. It pays to consider Las Vegas for your next home purchase.

Housing’s back. Indeed, the same industry that sent the U.S. economy into freefall nearly a decade ago is on its feet again. The trust issues linger among Americans, however, fearing another housing crisis as real-estate markets heat up across U.S. metro areas.

As USDA celebrates June as Homeownership Month, it gives us an opportunity to reflect on how we enable homeownership and community building, literally at the foundations.

The Reno Gazette-Journal's recent article ("You're not crazy, Reno's record-breaking rents explained in 6 charts and a map," June 21) made us think about where incoming workers will live in the region.

The year was 2007.

Many people were buying houses they could otherwise not afford, gambling on the chance that prices would continue to rise, allowing them to eventually refinance or sell at a profit.

There’s an interesting statistic sitting within the third quarter of 2015 in Las Vegas. Flips, or houses bought, renovated and resold for profit, accounted for just over 10 percent of home sales in Southern Nevada. This is according to the popular realty website Trulia.

At the onset of the millennium, house flippers—people who purchased imperfect homes, renovated them, and resold them at a profit mere months later—ran rampant in U.S. housing markets.

Developer Eric Cohen spent a lot of time trying to figure out downtown’s housing market and whether he could pull off an apartment project there. His company moved to former bakery Holsum Lofts, immersing itself in the neighborhood as Cohen looked into possible deals.

This summer, real estate agents have been encouraging Southern Nevada homebuyers to jump into the market, dangling historically low—but soon to rise—mortgage rates as the carrot. The consensus among real estate experts is that 30-year interest rates, which have been hovering between 4 and 4.5 percent for the past year, will likely climb to 5 percent this fall.

Homes prices in Nevada—that is Reno AND Las Vegas—are rising pretty fast.