You're about to sell, and somebody just asked for a document you've never heard of. Evidence of your water shares? The HOA's last minutes? Good news: the list is shorter than it feels, and most of it comes from people who already have the paper. Short answer: To...
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...
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...
"The Utah market" is really six or seven markets stacked on top of each other. A $425,000 townhome in West Valley and a $1.8 million house in Draper don't compete for the same buyers, and right now they aren't moving at the same speed either. If you're pricing a...
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 right as...
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...
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. Short...
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...
The average Utah homeowner with a mortgage is holding more equity than at any point on record. That is a real number from a credible source, published this month. It is also a number that does nothing for you until you do something with it. Here is what the figure...
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