Lenders issued an average of about 500 default notices per month in the fourth quarter last year, up from just 32 a month in the third quarter and 380 per month in the first half of 2017, according to figures from housing tracker Attom Data Solutions. But before you start cheering that Las Vegas' housing market has FINALLY recovered from the brutal recession that all but toppled the local economy last decade, we should note, as we have before in this column, that last year's drop came after a new foreclosure law kicked in.
