by Emma Perez | Sep 25, 2026 | Market Trends, Real Estate, Selling, Studies & Polls, Utah
You’ve got a moving date circled. Maybe it’s a new job in Lehi, a smaller place in St. George, or a house you want to buy before somebody else does. Everything else on the calendar waits on one question: how long will your current home take to sell? The...
by Emma Perez | Sep 25, 2026 | Arizona, Buying, guides, Market Trends, Real Estate, Selling, Utah
You finally got your spreadsheet to work at 6.6%. Then the number moved five weeks in a row, and this Thursday it crossed a line a lot of buyers were quietly dreading. Seven percent. It’s a psychological number as much as a financial one, and it’s landing...
by Emma Perez | Sep 21, 2026 | Buying, guides, Market Trends, Real Estate, Utah
Your renewal came in higher than last year. Or it did not come at all, and instead you got a nonrenewal letter with a sentence about wildfire exposure in it. Utah now runs a statewide wildfire risk map, state law tells insurers which map they may use when deciding...
by Emma Perez | Sep 17, 2026 | guides, Insurance, Market Trends, Real Estate
In 2024 a lot of people predicted that buyer’s agent commissions were about to fall off a cliff. Headlines used numbers like 1%. Some predicted the buyer’s agent would stop existing. Two years on, there is data. It does not say what either side expected....
by Emma Perez | Sep 17, 2026 | guides, Investment, Market Trends, Real Estate
For most of living memory, buying new meant paying a premium. You paid extra for nobody having lived there, for the warranty, for the finishes you picked. That relationship has inverted, and the gap is not small. Short answer: the median new home sold for $393,800 in...
