Tips for Winning in a Seller’s Market

Northern Wasatch Association of RealtorsAdvice, Update

If you’ve been shopping for a home, you know it’s a seller’s market. Home prices are rising, the number of houses for sale is declining and properties are selling very quickly. In Weber County, the median sales price increased substantially in February — up 19 percent from last year to $200,000. In Davis County, prices rose 11 percent — an increase of nearly $25,000 from the median in 2016. The same conditions prevailed in Morgan County where prices were up and buyers had fewer housing choices. The current environment is the result of a housing shortage. In fact, the Kem Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah finds the number of new Utah households is now growing faster than …

Study: Ogden Tops Utah for Housing Affordability

Northern Wasatch Association of RealtorsAdvice

If you’ve been struggling to find an affordable home, consider house-hunting in Northern Utah. Recently, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) named Ogden-Clearfield as Utah’s most affordable metro area for buying a home. The Ogden-Clearfield metro, which includes Box Elder, Davis, Morgan and Weber counties, also ranked fourth-best regionally and No. 37 nationally among more than 200 metro areas studied. Even with some price increases, nearly 84 percent of new and existing homes sold between October and December were affordable to families making the area income of $73,000. That’s according to NAHB’s fourth quarter 2016 Housing Opportunity Index. In Utah’s other metro areas, affordability isn’t quite as favorable but still outperforms the U.S. average. In Salt Lake, about 71 …