Salt Lake City Real Estate & Homes for Sale in Utah

Homes for Sale in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City Real Estate & Homes for Sale in Utah

With much to offer, Salt Lake City is a haven for sports enthusiasts, a scenic paradise with spectacular natural beauty, a transportation and commercial hub for the intermountain region, and a home to some 182,000 residents. The greater metropolitan area boasts nearly one million residents. Real estate options in Salt Lake City consist of single-family detached homes, estate properties, condominiums, townhouses and land lots.

Salt Lake City gained worldwide recognition as the hosting city for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, which has enhanced the community's profile as a world-class travel destination. In addition to the area’s nearly unlimited recreational opportunities, Salt Lake City offers a bustling economy, excellent schools, a historic downtown district, warm hospitality, and the "Greatest Snow on Earth." The area features a number of world-class ski resorts as well as historic sites, theaters, fine restaurants, art galleries and national parks.

Salt Lake City provides residents with all the amenities of a major metropolitan area, yet has retained the friendliness of a small, western city. Students in grades K-12 attend schools of the Salt Lake City, Granite and Jordan school districts. Several colleges and universities, including the University of Utah, are available for those who wish to attain a degree in higher education. Surrounded by the Wasatch Mountains to the east and the Oquirrh (pronounced “ochre”) Mountains to the west, Salt Lake offers fun for the entire family including skiing, hiking, biking, rock climbing, fishing, hunting and river rafting. Canyons are filled with wild flowers, glistening waterfalls and incredible foliage when winter turns to spring.

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The Salt Lake City real estate market is affordable and offers a myriad of housing types, from cozy ramblers and ranches to contemporary bungalows and historic Tudor and Victorian style mansions. Smaller, cottage-style houses in Salt Lake City are priced starting from $100,000. Large, beautiful homes with fireplaces, spacious lots and scenic hill and mountain views can be purchased from the high $100,000s to $350,000. Spectacular, newly built and older estates are priced from the high $300,000s to more than $1 million for magnificent luxury estates with scenic valley, canyon and lake views, on private lots of considerable acreage. Salt Lake City condominiums and townhouses can be found in the $100,000 to $250,000 range, and up. Building lots and land for development are also available in Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City Real Estate Stats and Trends for the week of May 14th, 2012: homes priced around $131,428 compared to $105,331 the previous week, showing a increase of more than +20%.  For Saturday, May 19th, the current national mortgage rate for a 30 year fixed mortgage is 3.73%; the 15 year fixed rate is at 3.03%. For a loan larger than conventional conforming loans, or 'jumbo' loan, the 30 year rate is 4.39%, while the 15 year jumbo rate currently is at 3.60%. You can calculate your mortgage rate with our mortgage calculators.  Get local info and homes for sale in Salt Lake City UT. View active real estate listings for different types of properties including new homes, houses for sale, foreclosures, short sales, and price reduced listings. Find information and property resources including prices of recently sold homes, neighborhood information, crime stats, home values, and schools in Salt Lake City to help you find the best home!