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Tooele County sits just over the Oquirrh Mountains from the Salt Lake Valley, close enough to commute to downtown jobs but priced like a different market entirely. For a first-time buyer who has been outbid in Salt Lake or West Jordan, the county’s mix of established neighborhoods in Tooele City, newer subdivisions in Stansbury Park and Lake Point, and larger lots in Erda and...

If you are buying a home in much of Utah, the listing may mention “secondary water,” “pressurized irrigation,” or a number of “shares” in a water or irrigation company. These are not the same thing, and in Utah they do not always transfer with the land the way a first-time buyer assumes. Utah is a prior-appropriation water state, which means water rights are a separate form o...

Accessory dwelling units, the basement apartments, converted lower levels, and backyard units that add a second home to a single-family lot, sit at the center of Utah’s housing-supply debate. Since 2021, state law has limited how much cities can restrict one specific kind: the internal ADU. For a homeowner thinking about a rental unit or an investor underwriting a property’s ...

Radon is the kind of home-buying issue that is easy to ignore because you cannot see, smell, or taste it, and easy to regret ignoring because it is both common in Utah and fixable. About one in three Utah homes that have been tested come back above the federal action level, a rate well above what generic national guidance would lead a buyer to expect. This explainer covers wh...

Provo anchors the south end of the Wasatch Front, an hour from Salt Lake City and built around two things that shape almost every real estate decision here: Brigham Young University and Utah Lake. The university puts roughly 34,000 students into a city of about 115,000, which means the rental market and the for-sale market are tied together in ways they are not in most Utah c...