Notices of default issued to property owners across the Las Vegas Valley jumped 28% year-over-year, signaling growing distress in the housing market, according to a summer report from UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate.

The significant increase points to more homeowners struggling to meet their mortgage obligations.

The biggest impact seems to be in east and southwest Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, said Nicholas Irwin, research director at the Lied Center and associate professor in the department of economics at UNLV.

“If you overlaid a map of poverty rates or you overlaid a map of per capita income, these would be areas that generally have lower income, higher poverty,” Irwin said. “So it’s not unexpected that, if the economy tends to worsen a little bit, these are probably going to be

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