Entries by Babs De Lay

Brewpub

Here’s why one of Utah’s most popular brewpubs is expanding to the west side BUSINESS • SQUATTERS CORNER PUB By KOLBIE PETERSON | The Salt Lake Tribune People who live on the west side of Salt Lake County now have a brewpub close by, in a majority-minority city that is Utah’s second most populous. Squatters […]

Code Blue

Damn it got cold fast! As I scurry around my home trying to finish winterizing my yard, replacing furnace filters, changing out batteries in my smoke detectors and putting away yard tools I find I’m so incredibly grateful to have a home and not be out on the streets, unsheltered in the cold. Luckly almost […]

Trans Away

Well, this is something I never expected. Clients and potential customers are calling me to sell their homes. That’s not unusual, but the WHY is unusual and disturbing. They are calling me because they are leaving Utah due to the anti-trans laws our phobic legislature has passed and they simply don’t feel they and or […]

Bye Bye Retail

Do you remember going to Kmart and experience the ‘blue light specials’? You could literally stand in the store and wait until an employee rolled up a cart with a pole that went up a few feet above the average human head, which was topped with a flashing blue light similar to a police car […]

For the Birds

I promise this is the last column about high rises here for a while. As an avid bird watcher, I know what a danger skyscrapers are to our avian friends due to reflections and lights at night. Most folks don’t realize that Utah is in multiple migratory bird flyways, including the Pacific and Central Flyways, […]

Affordability

Utah’s housing supply is still facing several challenges with not too much hope in sight. Housing supply drives affordability, so like any commodity, when the supply is low, prices are high. Housing production in Utah has been declining for years, from 37,000 housing starts in 2021 to 19,000 in 2023. Estimates for 2024 are that […]

Presidents and Prices

In a month we’ll learn who the new president of the United States will be, unless…?  I don’t want to go down that road of conspiracy theories but wanted to add some facts to the age old question, “Do president elections effect the housing market?” According to the data keepers at the National Assn. of […]

More More More

A few weeks ago, I wrote about high rises here and yet another one has been making the news as of late. Developer Harbor Bay Ventures is wanting to plop a 14-story high rise on the corner of 1100 East and 2100 South in Sugar House where the current Wells Fargo sits, smack dab in […]

If You’re Homeless

We’ve had unseasonally warm fall weather, but cold is coming. Imagine if you lost your job, had a major medical episode, no health insurance, couldn’t make your rent for a few months and ended up on the streets here. Where would you go seek shelter? During the Great Depression in the early 1930’s, Utah’s unemployment […]

Affordability

Utah’s housing supply is still facing several challenges with not too much hope in sight. Housing supply drives affordability, so like any commodity, when the supply is low, prices are high. Housing production in Utah has been declining for years, from 37,000 housing starts in 2021 to 19,000 in 2023. Estimates for 2024 are that […]