By Alan Barker on November 21, 2011
According to Bloomberg Business week, Smithfield Utah is the BEST place to raise kids in Utah. The article used statistics such as school ratings, test scores, crime rates, parks, and area income to determine the best areas to raise kids in each state. Here is the Article in Bloomberg Business Week: Best Place to Raise [...]
Posted in Cache County, General Real Estate | Tagged Best Places, Smithfield
By Alan Barker on October 27, 2011
Cache Valley is an awesome place to live. It is beautiful and the weather is really nice during our month of spring, summer, and our one month of fall. However, our winters aren’t exactly the most enjoyable, unless you’ve recently moved from Nunavut. With cold comes potential danger to homes, especially if they are vacant. [...]
Posted in Cache County, General Real Estate | Tagged home maintenance, winterize
By Alan Barker on September 15, 2010
The slow real estate market has increased the number of homes for sale in Logan UT that are offering lease options. Right now there are 22 lease option homes for sale in Logan. A couple years ago, I assisted some sellers with a lease option. At that time there were only three other homes being [...]
Posted in Cache County, General Real Estate, Home Buying, Market Conditions | Tagged lease option
By Alan Barker on September 9, 2010
With lower than ever interest rates, and home prices declining. Homes are about as affordable as they’ve ever been. Families that make the median income level can afford 72.5 percent of the homes for sale. The thing that confuses me though, is that even though home prices are down, and interest rates are down, the [...]
Posted in General Real Estate | Tagged Affordability
By Alan Barker on June 25, 2010
So Yesterday I blogged about the Cache Valley Parade of Homes, about how it is a fun opportunity to see homes that you can only dream about. Well that blog was posted before I actually visited any of the houses on this years parade… Homes on Past Years Cache Valley Parade of Homes Homes on [...]
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By Alan Barker on June 24, 2010
Every Year, the Cache Valley Home Builders Association hosts what is known as the “Parade of Homes” The “Parade” is an event where builders can show off some of their most impressively built fancy homes. These homes usually have the finest materials, and are professionally staged and decorated. Lookers can fantasize and imagine their dream [...]
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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 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
By Alan Barker on February 1, 2010
During President Obama’s State of the Union Speech tonight, he didn’t talk long about the housing market.But, what he did say speaks volumes about his policy intentions and the questionable philosophy of his economic advisers. Obama: Now, the price of college tuition is just one of the burdens facing the middle-class. That’s why last year [...]
Posted in General Real Estate
By Alan Barker on January 29, 2010
Finally a little humility.Or perhaps just the effects of economic strain….For the first time in nearly thirty years, the size of the average house in the United States has decreased.Yes, the average size of Houses in the United States has declined from 2,277 square feet to 2,215 square feet. In Utah, houses are even bigger. [...]
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