After several years of a nationwide economic recession, with Utah’s residential real estate market never rising quite as high as the rest of the country, Utah has now seen what experts believe is the bottom of the downturn. New home sales in Utah are predicted to rise significantly over the next year because of the depressed prices and the still strong employment rate.Utah’s unemployment rate hovers...

There is a relatively new and not always well understood practice in Real Estate sales; it is called Buyer Agency or Buyer’s Agent. Until recently Realtors and agents usually represented the seller, in opposition to the buyer, during the real estate transaction. Even the real estate agent who drove you from home to home was not truly working on your behalf. By law, the agent was required to work on the...

Whether you’re a happily unattached working professional or a young couple with a couple of kids in tow, you are probably questioning the logic of buying your own house when you could just rent. Even though the process of acquiring a house may seem a lot more complicated compared to simply paying your monthly rent for an apartment, you’ll eventually find many reasons on why buying a house actually...

Stephen Covey and his literature has and always will be an inspiration to many people around the globe. I am one of them.I have spoken to a lot of people over the last few months and a common question asked of me is what books I recommend.Although the list is many, there is one book that has been priceless to me since I first had it bought to my attention some 5 years ago.It is The Seven Habits of Highly Effective...