Utah Real Estate News,
From the Experts on the Ground.

For much of the past five years, apartment owners could count on rent growth to absorb rising expenses. That math no longer holds. Rent increases have slowed, insurance and utility costs have kept climbing, and the difference is coming straight out of net operating income. Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise and co-author of Peak Property ...

Durham’s housing inventory has climbed enough that buyers can afford to be selective – and the properties sitting longest are the ones that look like everything else on the market. For investors and small builders working on the city’s infill lots, that shift has changed the calculus on what to build, how to price it, ...

The standard advice in a cooling market is to price competitively. But in East Ventura County, the problem is not that sellers are ignoring comps – it is that the comps themselves are misleading. A closed sale from six months ago may have been listed using data that was already six months old at the ...

In many coastal housing markets, the homes that could ease tight inventory belong to people who bought them decades ago. Their reasons for staying go well beyond today’s mortgage rates. Taxes on long-held gains, a shortage of homes that suit later life, and the weight of a lifetime spent in one place all push in ...

Most relocation stories begin with a job offer. In Dallas, some begin with a college acceptance letter. The city has drawn a steady stream of buyers from New York and California in recent years, many chasing space, lower costs, or a change of pace. But within that flow, family ties to the region’s universities are ...

In most housing markets, homes change hands as families grow, relocate, and scale down. In the rolling countryside of Chester County, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia, some properties come up only once in a generation. When they do, the sale often happens quietly, among people who already know one another. Stephen Gross of the Holly Gross ...