by Emma Perez | Jul 14, 2026 | Buying, guides, Homie, Infographics, Market Trends, Real Estate, Utah
Affordability roundups love to list Utah’s cheaper towns, but they usually leave out the number that actually decides the tradeoff: how far you have to drive. A below-median price an hour from the jobs is a different deal than one twenty minutes out....
by Emma Perez | Jul 14, 2026 | Arizona, Buying, Homie, Market Trends, Neighborhoods, Real Estate
n the Phoenix metro, “new or used” is a real fork in the road, and the generic national answer misses what actually moves the math here. This is a market of sprawling master-planned communities where builders carry standing inventory, and in 2026 they have...
by Emma Perez | Jul 8, 2026 | Buying, guides, Homie, Market Trends, Neighborhoods, Real Estate, Utah
Utah County market coverage tends to circle Provo and Orem and skip the newest city on the map. Vineyard, built almost entirely from the ground up on the old Geneva Steel site along the east shore of Utah Lake, went from a few hundred residents to one of the...
by Emma Perez | Jul 8, 2026 | Buying, guides, Market Trends, Neighborhoods, Real Estate, Utah
Utah County’s family growth story is usually told through Lehi and the Silicon Slopes corridor, which skips the smaller towns quietly pulling in families priced out of the north end. From new-construction Santaquin in the low $400,000s to large-lot Mapleton...
by Emma Perez | Jul 8, 2026 | Buying, guides, Homie, Market Trends, Real Estate, Studies & Polls, Utah
The usual rule of thumb you will find online sends every Utah buyer to the Wasatch Front, where the state median has climbed past $528,000. Step outside the Salt Lake and Utah County corridor, though, and a different Utah appears: small cities and regional hubs where...
