Real estate experts are keeping an eye on the local market after President Donald Trump said he would ban corporate investors who buy up single-family homes. According to the director of the Lied Center for Real Estate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Shawn McCoy, out-of-state investors buying up homes in Las Vegas happens more than in other states.

Horsford cited a 2023 study by UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate, which found that about 15% of all homes in the Las Vegas valley were owned by out-of-state corporate investors, including 25% of all homes in North Las Vegas.

President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the country’s residential real estate industry Wednesday with a social media post calling for a ban on large institutional investors purchasing homes and for Congress to codify the issue.

Local real estate experts say the Southern Nevada housing market numbers from 2025 are no cause for concern because the higher-end market has remained strong with sales. However, buyers targeting the median home price point in Southern Nevada are being cautious for several reasons, according to industry professionals.

Las Vegas was shedding jobs toward the end of 2025 amid a prolonged tourism slump in America’s casino capital, a new report shows. Overall, Southern Nevada business leaders’ confidence fell in the fourth quarter of last year to the lowest level since the Great Recession, amid weak tourism and economic uncertainty, according to UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research.

U.S. home prices inched up in October from a year earlier as markets settled into a “much slower gear,” including in Las Vegas, a new report shows. Southern Nevada home prices in October slipped 0.67 percent from a year earlier, while prices nationally rose 1.36 percent during that time, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller index.

With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) right around the corner, the hospitality industry is already gearing up for the two-day event after last summer’s economic slump.

Forecasters from the residential real estate world — Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com — have all put out their 2026 projections and it looks like much of the same. Mortgage rates aren’t expected to drop enough next year to unlock the country’s housing market, new builds will continue to lag and prices will remain relatively elevated.

After a whirlwind 2025 for the Las Vegas economy, stabilization is expected for some industries, at least for the first six months.

Brian Bonnenfant is one of Nevada’s data experts forecasting a not-so-bright future – dependent on how and when Nevada businesses react. That being said, not all of Nevada is in a downturn. Making more resilient communities are a focus for Andrew Woods as the director of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER).

A recent report from the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, projects that the city will host 40.1 million visitors in 2026, representing a 2.4 percent increase over 2025.

Southern Nevada business leaders’ confidence fell this quarter to the lowest level since the Great Recession, according to UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research.