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Three quarters of the ZIP codes in Southern Nevada have seen home price declines year-over-year, according to a new study. Most of the ZIP codes (74 percent) that saw the largest per square foot median price decline in the valley included parts of the Las Vegas Strip where there aren’t a lot of single-family houses but an ample number of high-rise condominiums and apartments, according to a new study by the UNLV Lied Center for Real Estate.
Three quarters of the ZIP codes in Southern Nevada have seen home price declines year-over-year, according to a new study. Most of the ZIP codes (74 percent) that saw the largest per square foot median price decline in the valley included parts of the Las Vegas Strip where there aren’t a lot of single-family houses but an ample number of high-rise condominiums and apartments, according to a new study by the UNLV Lied Center for Real Estate.
Since the early 2000s, a fall in employment in the state of Nevada has preceded a broader U.S. recession. It makes sense why—the economic fortunes of Las Vegas, which make up a big part of the state’s overall economy, are intimately tied to consumers’ comfort with spending. Host Alex Ossola speaks with Andrew Woods, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, about what the state data shows now, and what it says about the health of the U.S. economy. This is part one of our four-part series on alternative economic indicators.
Las Vegas is bracing for another hit to its already struggling tourism industry. The city’s main airport is one of the 40 airports the Federal Aviation Administration directed to cancel up to 10% of its flights to relieve pressure on unpaid air traffic controllers due to the ongoing government shutdown.
The major ransomware attack against Nevada discovered in late August has been underway since May, The Associated Press reports. Injection of a clandestine backdoor facilitated by a Nevada state employee's accidental download of a malicious system admin tool on May 14 allowed threat actors to create encrypted tunnels, conduct lateral movement, and infiltrate the state's password vault server by August, according to a post-mortem report from the state.
State workers were put on paid administrative leave. Nevada residents couldn’t receive their driver’s licenses. Employers were unable to conduct background checks on new hires. These were all effects of a massive cyberattack in Nevada that took nearly a month to fully restore its services.
