URBAN UTAH IS A PROUD MEMBER OF UTAH INDEPENDENT BUSINESS COALITION
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2013 Rio Tinto, a British mining company with over 67,000 employees worldwide has just announced that it’s going to be giving furloughs and early retirements to many of the 2100 people who work at their Bingham open pit copper mine. Many of those folks live in Magna and towns south of there at the base […]
The crocus is up and it’s time for home and garden shows at expo centers and massive sales displays at your favorite home improvement stores. St. George had their Parade of Homes last month, Salt Lake and Utah Valley’s Parades of Homes come in early Summer and Cashe Valley usually puts one together in September. […]
2012 How many of you are snuggled up at night catching up on your BBC Downton Abbey episodes before Season 3 starts in January? Come on, raise your hands. I see a lot of you are like me: love to dress in costume; agree that wearing a tux at night for drinks in the drawing […]
2012 We’ve all seen pictures of the Frankenstorm, “Sandy” that hit the East coast two weeks ago. Disasters like that prompt a myriad of thoughts and discussions about “What would happen if disaster struck HERE? Am I prepared to be without electricity and water for a week? What if my entire home disappears into a […]
2012 I hate to keep harping on you all, but it’s school time and you’re desperately still looking for a place to rent, right? Once again the Department of Commerce has sent out a media alert, ‘Consumer Protection warns of fake rental scheme targeting real estate ads’. There are FAKE rental ads on Craigslist, KSL-beware […]
2012 Wasatch“The tables have turned-It’s now a seller’s market”! Those were happy words on the front page of the Salt Lake Tribune last week, right? That is not a headline we’ve seen in these parts in FIVE FREAKIN’ YEARS! Let me take the next few paragraphs here and share with you my slant on the […]
2012 My fellow Realtors are going to be a bit peeved at me when they read this article. Why? It’s college graduation time and I’m going to tell you lucky graduates NOT to run out and buy a home for a few years. I know that seems like crazy advice right now especially since […]
2012 Utah’s rate of foreclosed homes has dropped 49% in the first three months of 2012. That should be great news for home sellers, right? Maybe property values will stabilize or stop falling? Hold onto your bootstraps-Salt Lake City is still in the top of the pile of mortgage muck for the nation in […]
2012 The State of Utah has a pretty terrific non-profit that helps lower and middle income families here own homes. They’ve not necessarily been known as the ‘second time’ loan brokers, but with the economy as such, Utah Housing Corporation is now providing second mortgages to current and previous home owners as well as […]
2012 “There are a million homes for sale! What do you mean this property has multiple offers on it?!” says the buyer who just lost out on a home that had been for sale on the market for five months. Welcome to our world these days. Yes, there are a ton of homes […]