In The News: Lee Business School

Mortgage rates could be negatively impacted by an ongoing trade war between the United States and Canada, Mexico and China, according to real estate experts. Tariffs also could potentially increase prices on building materials, and more, and inflation invariably means mortgage rates will go up.

On Saturday, President Trump announced new 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada and 10% for goods from China. Energy imported from Canada, including oil, natural gas and electricity, will also be taxed at 10%. The new tariffs go into effect on Tuesday.

Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have posted five consecutive months of year-over-year declines in gaming revenue. Gambling parlors in downtown Las Vegas and along the Boulder Strip have reported decreases in three of the past four months of available data.

President Donald Trump vowed to work with Congress to eliminate taxes on tipped income during a Las Vegas rally Saturday — a campaign promise he made in the same city seven months before.
More Californians may be moving to Utah as a result of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires. They're looking for lower housing costs, especially since the deadly blazes are likely to boost already high prices in Los Angeles, Daryl Fairweather, chief economist for the nation's largest brokerage website, Seattle-based Redfin, told the Deseret News.
More Californians may be moving to Utah as a result of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires. They’re looking for lower housing costs, especially since the deadly blazes are likely to boost already high prices in Los Angeles, Daryl Fairweather, chief economist for the nation’s largest brokerage website, Seattle-based Redfin, told the Deseret News.

Home prices in the Las Vegas Valley rose in all but six ZIP codes over the last year, according to a new analysis of Redfin data by UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate. Shawn McCoy, the director of the center, said home prices rose in 91 percent of all ZIP codes in the valley from 2023 to the end of 2024.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is joining a growing list of disruptively priced online MBA programs. UNLV’s Lee Business School will launch its first online, asynchronous MBA program in spring 2025 with a total program price tag of under $19,000 for in-state students. Out-of-state students will pay about $26,000.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is joining a growing list of disruptively priced online MBA programs. UNLV’s Lee Business School will launch its first online, asynchronous MBA program in spring 2025 with a total program price tag of under $19,000 for in-state students. Out-of-state students will pay about $26,000.
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The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have burned more than 30,000 acres and destroyed thousands of homes since starting on January 7th. With tens of thousands residents displaced, could Las Vegas see even more Californians moving here? Co-host Dayvid Figler asks UNLV economist Nicholas Irwin how much pressure this could put on our strained housing market and what Las Vegas could do to prepare.