The federal government’s restrictive control of a fair chunk of the remaining land left for development in the Las Vegas Valley is now weighing heavily on the region’s housing market, according to multiple sources. Only 41.8 acres in the Las Vegas Valley were purchased from the federal government last year, the lowest total the Bureau of Land Management in Southern Nevada has offloaded since the Great Recession. Multifamily builders and brokers, along with private homebuilders have been sounding the alarm for years on the lack of land available to develop within the valley as driving up home prices and the cost of living. Jeffrey Swinger, an executive vice president for multifamily investment sales with commercial real estate brokerage Colliers in Las Vegas, said the local market has to deal with this added layer of bureaucracy that no other metro in the country does.…