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Alan Barker on December 29th, 2010

One of the reasons that the Logan Real Estate market is doing as well as it is, is because the population is growing. Nationally. The Logan metro area ranked seventh in total population growth last year, and the population increased by almost 3%. The Logan Metro Area, including Franklin County Idaho, now has a population [...]

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Alan Barker on November 26th, 2010

For those of us in the real estate industry in Logan, we have a lot to be thankful for. Sure the market is slow, homes aren’t selling anywhere near the rate they were selling at a couple years ago,  but here are five reasons we have to be grateful. 1. The National Economy is showing [...]

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Alan Barker on November 19th, 2010

One metric home buyers and real estate agents use as to quickly determine a homes value is the price per square foot. Because homes are of different ages, conditions, and locations, there is no standard $ per square footage that applies for all Cache Valley Homes. There are lots of variables that make $ per [...]

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Alan Barker on August 10th, 2010

We all know that Logan is One of the Safest Communities in the Nation, well, as of today, it is even safer. There is now a functioning traffic light at the dangerous intersection of 100 W and Highway 89/91 by the South End Walmart. For most people, this probably isn’t blog worthy news at all. [...]

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Alan Barker on August 5th, 2010

It doesn’t make any logical sense, but there are people out there who like to pretend they have large sums of money, and are purchasing high end homes, when really they have no business buying real estate at all. Occasionally there are people who make offers on million dollar houses that they have never even [...]

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While the popular news these days is usually the lack of jobs and increasing unemployment numbers, things for Cache County jobs are actually pretty good. According to CNN Money, Job Growth in Cache County Utah over the past decade was the 10th best in the nation. This is one of the key factors in making [...]

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Alan Barker on July 14th, 2010

There are all kinds of articles out there giving advise of how to sell your home. But what if you want to list your home just for fun, but don’t want it to sell then what?  If you want to make sure that your home doesn’t sell, here are some valuable tips for you. Make [...]

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Alan Barker on July 9th, 2010

I read an article this morning that 70% of the home loans in Nevada are under water, meaning that more than two out of every three homeowners in the state of Nevada owes more on their home than it is worth. These people are unable to sell their homes unless they have a huge savings [...]

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The temperatures in Logan Utah have risen, and the fresh “green lawns” all over Cache Valley have started to brown up. If you don’t want your lawn to die, you need to water them. Well, for many residents of Mendon Utah, this is now against the law. Mendon City has apparently had some issues with [...]

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Alan Barker on June 29th, 2010

For single family houses in Cache County Utah, sales were up 8.76% from a year ago. There wasn’t really a price disparity between the percentage change of more expensive homes and less expensive homes. Cache Valley homes priced below $200,000 saw a sales increase of 8.76%, and Home’s priced above $200,000 saw an increase by [...]

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