By Alan Barker on April 29, 2010
Cache County Real Estate agents have been extra busy over the past few weeks. There has been a lot of activity by buyers rushing to beat the expiration of the tax credit and that has made a huge impact on the number of home sales we can be expecting in the near future. On Monday [...]
Posted in Market Conditions | Tagged under contract
By Alan Barker on April 27, 2010
On Monday morning I got my normal new listing email telling me that there were 12 new home listings in Cache County Utah on Sunday. That is a ton of listings for Cache County standards, especially for a Sunday. Well it turns out that 11 of these homes for sale were brand new construction homes, [...]
Posted in General Real Estate, Home Buying, Market Conditions
By Alan Barker on April 26, 2010
There was a new home listed in Hyrum on Saturday that looks to be an incredible deal. It’s not my listing, it’s not even a Cornerstone Real Estate listing, I’ve never actually seen it before, it’s simply a house that looks to have an incredible price. It’s a short sale, and there’s a good chance [...]
Posted in Cache County, Foreclosures, Home Buying | Tagged Deals, Hyrum
By Alan Barker on April 23, 2010
A “Duplex” that can not legally be rented out to multiple families due to zoning laws is usually classified as a “Mother in Law Apartment.” In Cache County we find quite a few mother in law apartments in Logan Utah. With Utah State University located in Cache Valley, there has always been strong demand for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged duplexes, mother in law apartments
By Alan Barker on April 21, 2010
We all know that the expiration of the home buyer tax credits expire at the end of the month. To qualify for this tax credit, homes need to be under contract by the end of the month. But what about for short sale homes? About 18% of the homes for sale in Northern Utah right [...]
Posted in Foreclosures, Home Buying | Tagged closing, short sales, under contract
By Alan Barker on April 17, 2010
This morning as I was going through the new listings in Cache Valley, I noticed that two of the new homes for sale in Wellsville, were Ultra High end homes. I know that sales of existing large expensive homes is few and far between, but I didn’t realize just how bad it was until I [...]
Posted in Cache County, Market Conditions | Tagged highe end homes
By Alan Barker on April 7, 2010
The National Association of Realtors is promoting a big “Open House Weekend” this upcoming weekend. For Cache Valley, it will actually just be Saturday, but there should be a lot more “Open Houses” than normal. There also should be a good deal of advertisement promoting it, so it should be a good time for sellers [...]
Posted in Cache County, Home Buying
By Alan Barker on April 5, 2010
The numbers are in, and for the first quarter of 2010 Cornerstone Real Estate Professionals is the number one Logan Utah Real Estate brokerage in terms of home sales. Even more impressive is the huge advantage Cornerstone has for the number of buyer transactions among the major Cache Valley Real Estate brokerages. For the second [...]
Posted in Cache County, General Real Estate | Tagged home sales, real estate brokerages
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