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Excerpt: As a long-term investment, homeownership is still one of the best investments for individual households.“Why” you may ask? After all, the headlines say the housing market is down and out, with defaults rising at an alarming rate, and mortgage markets so frozen that buyers can’t get a home loan ...

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Excerpt: There’s a little over reaction regarding the Utah housing market, but there’s also some reality to it. The over reacting is that it’s a horrible time to buy a home in Utah, and that’s simply not true. If anything, it’s a home buyer’s market. The problems that we’re finding is that p ...

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Excerpt: There’s no question about it … the red hot real estate market in Utah is slowing down. Painful as it may be, this correction will, over time, make for a healthier market that’s less dependent upon speculators, sub-prime mortgages and double digit appreciation. With all that being said� ...

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Excerpt: Lately there have been a lot of articles and reports about home sales the housing market. But how much of this information applies to Utah? New Reach Marketing, an independent firm which develops data to study and evaluate our local real estate market, warns the national stories are misleading. ...

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Excerpt: by Jamie Huish Stum Utah Business Magazine Despite the constant news about the glum state of the residential real estate market, a recent government report suggests homeowners and professionals should look at the bigger picture. It appears Utah homeowners will be fine after all. Utah ranke ...

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Excerpt: Investors who time any market hope to buy at the nadir and sell at the zenith, but homebuyers have a trickier time knowing when to sit on the sidelines and when to jump in. The reason? There are several. Buying a home is one of the largest financial investments a homebuyer will make. Transaction ...

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Excerpt: That’s the implication a recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune wants to imply. It begins rather benignly with a title of Home builders offering incentives, but it's not a sign of a market crash. The article quickly goes to the jugular by saying: As expected, Utah's red-hot housing market i ...