SEARCHLIGHT — With fewer than 500 people living here, Searchlight has a housing market that’s, well, small.

Just five homes are currently listed for sale, as seen on Zillow. But driving through this tiny former mining boomtown outside Las Vegas, another option of sorts is up for grabs: a boarded-up house that’s uninhabitable.

A spread of land with a cluster of old structures — and a piece of local history — is on the market for $60,000 in Searchlight. The price was cut by $25,000 over the weekend, the listing shows.

The 0.86-acre property, on U.S. Highway 95, consists of three parcels separated by public rights-of-way. A family used the property off-and-on as a residence until the 1980s, but the structures are now “uninhabitable,” according to the listing.

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