Your home is worth seven figures. Congratulations. Now you have to find someone who can actually write that check, at a 7% mortgage rate, while more of your neighbors are listing too. The top of Utah's market doesn't behave like the middle. Fewer buyers qualify,...
You've been watching St. George listings for months. Some of the same houses are still up. A few have quietly dropped their price. And you're starting to wonder if you finally have some room to push. You might. But "buyer's market" gets thrown around loosely, so we...
Your home is worth seven figures. Congratulations. Now you have to find someone who can actually write that check, at a 7% mortgage rate, while more of your neighbors are listing too. The top of Utah's market doesn't behave like the middle. Fewer buyers qualify,...
Builders in the West had a rough August. New home sales across the region tied for their weakest reading of the past year, while the country as a whole barely moved. Shopping in Salt Lake County, Utah County or the Phoenix Valley? That's leverage. A builder with...
You close on a brand-new house. Nobody has ever scuffed the baseboards. Then, a few months in, a crack shows up over a doorway and the back patio starts to tilt. So who fixes it? Most buyers assume "the warranty" does. In Utah, the honest answer depends on a...
You've got a number in your head. Maybe it's the Zestimate you screenshotted in spring 2022. Maybe it's what the house two doors down sold for that summer, when buyers were writing love letters and waiving appraisals. That number is the hardest thing to let go of...
You keep hearing Phoenix buyers finally have the upper hand. Then you tour a house in Gilbert and the listing agent acts like it's 2021. Both things can be true. "Buyer's market" isn't a mood or a headline. It's a test with actual numbers behind it, and the Phoenix...
The sign's been in the yard for three weeks. The house is spotless every morning, and your phone isn't buzzing. Nobody's said anything bad about the place. Nobody's said much of anything. That silence is information. A listing that sits is telling you something...
The leaves are turning up Big Cottonwood, and you're staring at a house you've half decided to sell. List now, or sit tight until the tulips come up and everyone says the market wakes up? Spring gets all the credit. It also brings the most sellers, and Utah buyers...
Your neighbor's house has had a sign in the yard since July. Mortgage rates just crossed 7%. So you start to wonder whether your home is quietly worth less than it was in the spring. Fair question. The August numbers tell a more specific story than the headlines....
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