Salt Lake City and Boise top another national list for record breaking home prices
Nicea DeGering
On Good Things Utah this morning – As the stampede thunders on for housing in the wild West, the Salt Lake City metro area and its top housing competitor, Boise, Idaho, just topped another national list for record-breaking home prices. Only Boise’s red-hot market outpaced Salt Lake City for the largest percentage increase in year-over-year median home sale prices, according to the latest RE/MAX National Housing report released Monday. “The secret is out about Boise,” Callie Williams, an agent with RE/MAX Elite Properties in Boise, said in a prepared statement. “It’s a great place to live, raise a family and enjoy the outdoors. Since COVID we’ve seen a huge influx of buyers relocating to Boise. The pandemic made people rethink their situation, and we quickly ran out of inventory, skyrocketing our prices.” To read more click here: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/10/18/22732959/the-wild-west-housing-prices-utah-idaho-boise-salt-lake-city-top-new-us-list-biggest-price-increases
Speaking of housing, signing a lease is the reality TV equivalent of receiving the final rose: It’s a big commitment even though it’s probably only temporary. Not unlike speed dating, apartment hunting requires thinking on your toes, or in The Bachelor terms, being vulnerable. To get to know a home on the fly, you’ll have to do a little extra digging on the spot. To help us navigate our next move, we asked the pros to share the questions they wish clients would ask more often before they put a ring on it—er, sign the dotted line. Tune in or click here for all the important information: https://www.domino.com/content/things-to-ask-real-estate-agent-rental/
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Finally, Selena Gomez is opening up about how her hands-off approach to social media has ultimately “saved my life.” Speaking with Women’s Wear Daily, the 29-year-old revealed, “I do all of my posts through texting my assistant and the caption that I want.” Gomez doesn’t have Instagram, Facebook or Twitter downloaded on her phone, a revelation she made back in 2019 that she has stuck to ever since. “That’s a huge, significant part of why I feel like I’ve been as healthy as I have been,” the singer told the outlet. “I’m completely unaware of, actually, what’s going on in pop culture, and that makes me really happy. And maybe that doesn’t make everybody else happy, but for me, it’s really saved my life.”
At the end of the show, where are the spookiest places to live? We have the Halloween map that will show you how many ghost sightings have occurred in each state… so where does Utah fall? Tune in for these Hot Topics and so much more this morning on GTU Hour 1.