In our last blog, we looked at the strong evidence that suggests our Iron County Real Estate Market is transitioning to classic buyer's market conditions.

While the basic rules for selling your home never change, it is important to understand buyers' motivations in these new conditions.

Clearly price is …

We wanted to inform you of what could be a significant incoming change in our Iron County Real Estate market.

For some years now, we have been enjoying a seller's market, whereby prices have continually risen and there is high demand for homes.

Although prices are continuing to climb …

Our Iron County real estate market has made a strong start to the year.

Buyer sentiment is currently exceptional, following a sustained period of lower mortgage rates to levels we haven't seen for a while.

Indeed, it was recently reported nationally that mortgage applications were up 23.5% at …

Much has been written in recent months about changes in national real estate trends.

What's really encouraging to report is that Iron County appears to be going against the grain, with some very good stats recently released for September by the Utah Association of REALTORS®.

While inventory of homes …

We've just taken a look at the trends in the Iron County market, as provided by the Utah Association of REALTORS®, and they certainly make interesting reading.

The most interesting aspect, in spite of widespread growing pressure on home prices, is that our market continues to flourish across a …

It probably won't have escaped your attention that the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates last week.

The federal funds rate was raised by a quarter percentage point to 2% - the seventh rate increase since December 2015. The Federal Reserve also indicated that there are likely to be another …

I recently read some really interesting statistics concerning real estate and related matters for Iron County, so I thought I'd share some of them with you:

Renters - Out of the total population of 49,940, 16,460 are renters. What's really interesting is that 4,148 of those …

If you're looking for a home, it won't have escaped your attention that mortgage rates have been climbing for some time now. Indeed we recently saw the highest 30 year rates for seven years.

Of course we've become more accustomed to seeing rates travel in the opposite …

I thought I'd let you know about a very positive Iron County real estate market trend we've been observing here in recent weeks.

We're noticing a significantly higher than normal influx of enquiries from buyers.

Considering that spring is not yet here, this is very encouraging for …

The holidays and end of the year are now almost here, so it seems a good moment to reflect on 2017 and also assess the prospects for the New Year.

It's been another great year for us and for Southern Utah real estate in general!

2017 saw a return …