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...
Most buyers ask for a lower price because that is the only lever they know about. Then they find out at closing that they are short on cash, and the price cut they fought for saved them fifty dollars a month. Meanwhile a record share of sellers are already handing...
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...
Every Arizona seller hears the same advice in October: wait until spring. It is repeated so consistently that almost nobody checks it against the state's own listing data. When you do check it, the advice turns out to be imported from somewhere with a real winter,...
For a long stretch, nobody in Arizona thought about homeowners insurance during a transaction. You closed, you called an agent, you got a policy, it was cheap. That sequence now fails often enough to plan around. Buyers are getting declined, quoted at unexpected...
You put solar on the roof six years ago. Now you are listing, and your agent asks a question you cannot immediately answer: do you own the system, or does a finance company? That one question branches into four different closings. Underneath it sits a second...
You've stood in the back corner of the yard where the shed is and run the numbers in your head. A small unit back there. A rental. An office that isn't the guest room with a desk shoved in it. A place for someone in your household who needs their own door. For...
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...
Ask five people and you'll get five answers, ranging from "prices are about to fall off a cliff" to "nothing has changed, buy now." Neither is right. The August numbers are more interesting than that. Short answer: single family prices along the Wasatch Front are...
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