Home Selling

Alan Barker on April 10th, 2012

Spring is Here in Cache Valley. The real estate market is picking up and the weather is actually nice on some days. It’s this time of year where we all remember why we love living in this great area. Here are the articles published in Cornerstone Real Estate Professionals monthly newsletter. These articles are nationally [...]

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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 March 21st, 2011

The number of short sale listings in Logan Utah continues to rise as home prices decline. Nationwide, the average median home sales price is now at 2002 levels, it’s not that low in Logan, but over the last three months the median sales price of $156,250 is the lowest Cache County has seen since 2007. [...]

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Alan Barker on February 22nd, 2011

Real Estate Inventory in Cache Valley Utah continues to drop. There are now just 699 MLS listings in Cache Valley. This is the lowest Logan real estate inventory levels have been in more than a year. Traditionally, there are more listings at the end of February than the beginning. This year the trend has reversed [...]

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For Logan Utah Real Estate, it’s still the dead of winter, there isn’t much snow left, but that doesn’t mean that winter is over, or even close to being over. Spring is typically the busiest time of year for the listing of Logan homes, as most people want to move during the summer months when [...]

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Alan Barker on December 1st, 2010

Cache County currently has 800 homes for sale. Less than 50 homes have sold each month for the last two months. The chances Logan homes have of selling, unless they are priced at a severe discount are pretty low right now. Many homeowners don’t realize that they have options besides selling. You don’t have to [...]

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Alan Barker on October 19th, 2010

There are a lot of Realtors in Cache Valley who don’t like some of the things I blog about, because I don’t paint a “rosy picture” of the state of the real estate market. Personally, I think it is the best to just state the facts and tell the truth. Right now the truth is [...]

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While home sales are way down from the past five years, they really may not be that far from where they would be if there never was a housing boom. If there weren’t hundreds of unqualified buyers and investors buying homes they shouldn’t have bought, where would home sales be now? This graph shows us [...]

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Alan Barker on September 29th, 2010

Facts are facts. And right now home sales in Utah are substantially down compared to what they normally are at this time of year. The Utah Association of Realtors recently conducted a survey among recent home buyers, to find out their attitudes towards buying, and not buying Utah real estate. The report wasn’t very specific, [...]

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Alan Barker on September 15th, 2010

The slow real estate market has increased the number of homes for sale in Logan UT that are offering lease options.  Right now there are 22 lease option homes for sale in Logan. A couple years ago, I assisted some sellers with a lease option. At that time there were only three other homes being [...]

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