Utah Housing Prices Are on Fire
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By Lesley Mitchell, The Salt Lake Tribune  Mar. 2--Utah's home price appreciation, the worst in the country just  three years ago, is now the best nationwide.
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Business & money: Signs that four increases since August are starting to bite as housing market cools.
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By Hyatt, Abraham  CAVE JUNCTION - It sounded like an unbelievable amount of money: more than $171 million worth of salvage lumber, enough to build as many as 17,000 homes, waiting to be logged in forests blackened by 2002's famed Biscuit Fire.
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By Steve Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  May 31--DRAPER -- After Friday, new-home buyers in Salt Lake County's  south end will have to fork over an extra $1,000.    The South Valley Sewer District has raised its connection fees for  just-built abodes from $2,925 to $3,921.
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Late summer brought no relief from soaring foreclosures. The number of homes in some stage of default jumped 36 percent month-over-month in August, according to a regular monthly survey.
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By Dave Anderton Deseret Morning News  When gasoline prices soar, consumers have little choice but to pay.  Yet when prices begin to fall, an obscure Utah law makes sure they don't go too low.
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REITs are getting pummeled, and it's time to start paying attention.
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As the housing boom continues, housing stocks are reporting record earnings. Neither is sustainable.
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New Census Bureau data illustrate the crushing impact of escalating real estate prices and stagnant incomes.
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Even as foreclosures keep rising and overall sales continue to plummet, more expensive homes have staged a bit of a comeback in recent months.
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Ouch! The dollar's drop translates into rapidly rising rents for some residents of these 10 cities.
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This year may be the first since 1991 with a 4 percent inflation rate. After years of running just under 3 percent, a 4 percent rate will be a shock, particularly since it won't apply to home prices.
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SALT LAKE CITY - If you can't stand the heat, don't pour gasoline down the toilet. An apartment tenant made that $75,000 mistake Tuesday...
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The serious slump in the housing market and home building may be near a bottom, according to a leading U.S. home builder.
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During the real estate boom, home prices in the Sun Valley area spiked almost as high as the peak of nearby Bald Mountain. The median home price is now about as high as San Francisco's.
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A wildfire that has scorched about 46 square miles in northeastern Utah and killed three people has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people from nearby towns and forced authorities to close a national forest to the public.
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Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires.