Alan Barker on December 8th, 2011

The number of homes for sale in Logan Utah continue to drop. Right now there ore only 617 listings on the MLS. Real Estate Inventory hasn’t been this low since April of 2008. While real estate inventory is down, so are home prices. During November the average sales price was just $157,299 with a median [...]

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Alan Barker on November 4th, 2011

The number of homes for sale in Logan Utah is at its lowest level since April of 2008. That was at the height of the real estate boom for Cache Valley when homes prices were rapidly appreciating. It is typical for real estate inventory to decline during the fall and winter months, but inventory hasn’t [...]

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Alan Barker on November 3rd, 2011

The experts are predicting that Cache Valley will double its growth in the next 20-30 years. While this is exciting, Logan wasn’t exactly planned for a large population. As somebody who lives in the North end of the valley, but who works on the South end, I know from first hand experience the frustration of [...]

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Alan Barker on October 27th, 2011

Yesterday after work I went for a walk with my boys, and it was ccccold. It was that sad reminder that Winter is almost here in Cache Valley. The last few nights have seen temperatures below freezing. Cache Valley is an awesome place to live. It is beautiful and the weather is really nice during [...]

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Alan Barker on October 3rd, 2011

Home sales during September in Cache County were pretty impressive. September was the second best month of the year for total home sales. On an annual basis, they were up 32.18% compared with September of last year, as 87 residential homes sold. This marks the fourth straight month that year over year home sales are [...]

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Alan Barker on September 28th, 2011

My wife and I recently made an offer on a home in Smithfield Utah. Unlike my current house, this home has a full basement. Knowing that most homes on the eastern bench in Utah have high radon levels, and being that I plan to live in this house for a very long time, I decided [...]

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Alan Barker on September 22nd, 2011

Right now mortgage interest rates are the lowest they have ever been, making home ownership much less expensive than renting an equivalent house. I just locked into a 3.75% 30 year fixed mortgage interest rate today. One problem that many potential home buyers have is that they can’t qualify for a home loan because their [...]

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Alan Barker on September 7th, 2011

Logan Home Sales in August were substantially better than they were during July. There was nearly a 32% increase of home sales as 97 residential homes sold. Home sales were also up by nearly 30% from August of a year ago when just 68 Cache County homes sold. August homes sales were up, and it [...]

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Alan Barker on August 31st, 2011

It’s that time of year again. Property Tax time for Logan Real Estate.While the assessed property value of one of my properties went down as it accurately should have. The assessed value of my rental properties apparently went up. How this happened, I can’t explain. In the past year my duplex has aged an additional [...]

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    Great news for Logan home buyers again, 30 year fixed mortgage rates are at their lowest rates ever. If you buy down some points, or get a really great lender, you can have an interest rate of less than 4%. And we though interest rates last week were good. “The average rate on [...]

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