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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 11th, 2001 seems like a lifetime ago. That date, burned into many of our brains was when the twin towers fell in NYC and killed almost 3,000 people. At the time of the terrorist attack, the World Trade Center’s twin towers were the tallest buildings in NYC-1,369 and 1,362 feet tall, respectively. They were […]
A lot of folks love California, with almost 40 million living in the state these days. Sure, I love the natural beauty of the beaches, the redwood forest, even the desert but I would not live there. One of my brothers lives in SOCAL and just to get around you have to reenact the old […]
Unless you’re a Native American, we’re all immigrants to this state. We were discovered by trappers and explorers, some of whom stuck around, followed by the great Mormon trek of folks who sought a place to live and practice their religion. Once the white colonizers from Britian and Scandinavia took over the land industry began […]
Summertime and traveltime go hand in hand. The weather warms up and folks want to get out and explore, and since the Pandemic stopped so many travel plans, Americans have been on the web booking travel plans to near and far off places. Many of those destinations require passports, and lucky Utah is going to […]
The National Assn. of Home Builders have chimed in about what home buyers really seem to want these days. In their most recent national survey of builders involved in erecting homes, not condos, the data showed that smaller home construction is the norm (less square feet) became obvious in 2023 and is continuing this year […]
I went to a friend’s new office at 95 South State Street-you know, the all-glass 25 story building that sits on the corner of 100 South and State, just west of Harmons. It’s a beautiful building inside but what really impressed me is the fact there is a four story meeting house for the Church […]
I recently had a new client to the area wonder about sex offenders that were located in a neighborhood where she wanted to purchase a new home. Her concerns were especially strong as she has two very young children and wants a safe neighborhood to live in upon closing escrow. She Googled a particular address […]