Salt Lake City Utah Real Estate

Affordable starter homes just outside Salt Lake City

One myth that some buyers have been led to believe lately is that if you are looking for a starter home, you’ll have to settle in some way. Either you’ll have to buy one that’s too old for you, too small, or in an area that you don’t think is nice enough for you. [...]

Nice little Utah real estate website*

Someone on Facebook directed me to this website called utahhousingfacts.com. It’s not exhaustive by any means, but it’s a nice little site that reminds us in Utah that real estate is local.
It’s worth a few minutes of browsing. There are some Utah statistics, homeowner benefits, etc. I think it may have been [...]

2008 Utah Real Estate Forecast

For those people who will be home buyers or sellers in 2008, an understanding of Utah’s market projections is absolutely essential. For this reason, I’m encouraging everyone to read the forecast for 2008. You can view it below.
As people in Utah are quick to point out these days, real estate conditions are local first. Unfortunately, [...]

An Interesting Report On Utah’s Economy*

I just came across a very interesting report on Utah’s economy. Check out these first quarter 2007 numbers:
-1 in 4 new Utahans are Hispanic.
-6th = Utah’s ranking in the nation in rate of population growth.
Utah’s gross state product in 2006 was up 7.2% from 2005 (2nd in the nation behind Idaho), bringing the
current GSP in [...]

My Thoughts on Changes in Housing and the McMansion*

Two Sundays ago, my family decided to drive around some of the new residential areas in the city to see the new houses that were being constructed. In one particular area, where the homes were nice but nothing unusual, we drove down the street, turned left into a cul-de-sac and beheld a mansion that made [...]