For most of the last decade, the entry level of the Utah market has been the hardest slice to find. Builders kept building bigger, small older houses got bought and expanded, and the number in your head kept drifting further from the number on the listing. If...
Everyone has an opinion about this one, and most of them are inherited. "Renting is throwing money away." "Buying right now is insane." "You should have bought in 2019." None of these are analysis. They are moods with confidence. The real answer is boring and...
Somebody asks us this every single day. Usually they want one word back: yes or no. We get it. It would be great if the answer were that clean. Short answer: nobody can answer that question about "the market," because the market stopped moving as one thing. The...
A home inspection is a professional review of a home's condition, covering the major systems and structure, so you know what you are actually buying before you close. It is one of the most important steps a buyer takes, because it can reveal problems the listing...
Zillow's home-value index put the typical Avondale home near $398,000 in mid-2026, down a little under 2 percent on the year, while homes newly listed for sale in July carried a median closer to $453,000. That gap between what homes are worth and what sellers are...
A home in one Wasatch Front city was taking about six weeks to sell in mid-2026 while a home a half-hour away was gone in under two. That spread, not the statewide average everyone quotes, is what tells a buyer where the negotiating room actually sits. The longer...
Utah taxes your primary home on only 55 percent of its value. The other 45 percent is exempt, knocked off the taxable base before your rate is ever applied, under a statute most homeowners benefit from without ever thinking about it. The confusion starts when...
Pull up your address on Zillow, ask an agent to price it, and order a lender's appraisal, and you can walk away with three different values on the same house, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars apart. None of them is lying. Each number is built by a different...
Phoenix-metro roundups cover Phoenix, Mesa, and Chandler and often skip Gilbert on its own, which misses the Southeast Valley's signature family suburb. Gilbert pairs a high-$500,000s median with strong school ratings, master-planned neighborhoods like Agritopia...
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. Utah's...
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