Utah Real Estate Professionals

What do you want from an agent?

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan the Realtor) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:23:00 +0000

I'm asking YOU what YOU would want from an agent that is servicing you? What is it that you want to start to see Real Estate Professionals do?

Utah Real Estate Values

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan the Realtor) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:27:00 +0000

Utah has highest home price appreciation in the United States

Utah had the highest housing price appreciation rate in the U.S. from fourth quarter 2005 to fourth quarter 2006, according to a report recently released by a government agency. At a rate of 17.6 percent, Utah’s housing prices increased more than any other state in the nation, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index. Utah’s metro areas also had some of the largest housing price growth in the country. With an appreciation rate of 19.92 percent, the Provo-Orem area was ranked third in the nation while Salt Lake City at 19.76 percent came in fourth. Also in the top 20 metro areas was Ogden-Clearfield at 15.30 percent.

The state with the second-highest appreciation rate was Wyoming at 14.3 percent while Idaho came in third at 14 percent. The states with the lowest appreciation were Michigan (-0.4%), Massachusetts (0.5%) and Ohio (1%). Nationally, home prices in the fourth quarter of 2006 were 5.9 percent higher than they were in the same quarter in 2005.

www.ListYourUtahHome.com

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan the Realtor) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:03:00 +0000

My website. I have been doing a lot of updating on the site, and would enjoy any feedback that I can get.

How to make the site more user friendly.
What to put on the site as far as information.

Any other tip or hints would be appreciated. Thanks again.

Limited Service Listings!

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan the Realtor) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:12:00 +0000

From the WFRMLS Newsletter.

Limited Service Listings

The Board of Directors for the Wasatch Front Regional MLS recently approved the elimination of the designation for Limited Service. This action was taken to simplify and clarify the responsibility of both listing broker and participating broker in their services to their principals and each other. The WFRMLS listing input process has been revised to reflect this change.

This change is being made primarily in response to recent state regulation changes. The Division of Real Estate for the state of Utah has established minimum services that must be performed by principal real estate brokers. This requirement is identified as Utah Law and Exclusive Brokerage Agreements Utah Code Ann. Section 61.2.27, as amended, or any substitute or replacement section, and as amended (the “Exclusive Brokerage Agreement Statute”).

They establish the following requirements for real estate brokers:
1. Accept delivery of and present to the client offers and counteroffers to buy, lease, or exchange the client’s property.

Consistent with Standards of Practice 1-6 of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®, this must be done objectively and as quickly as possible. A listing broker, upon receipt of a written offer from a cooperating broker, shall submit the offer to the seller without delay or give the cooperating broker a satisfactory reason for not doing so.

2. Assist the client in developing, communicating, and presenting offers, counteroffers, and notices.

3. Answer any question the client has concerning (a) an offer, (b) a counteroffer, (c) a notice, and (d) a contingency.

Introduction

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan the Realtor) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:18:00 +0000

Hi, I'm Ryan Torsell I work for Equity Real Estate. I just wanted to introduce myself. I will be posting stuff to this blog a few times a week. I hope that it will be useful to people buying or selling Real Estate. Please don't hesitate to post or email me with ideas of what information to post. Thanks again.

Contact information:

Ryan Torsell
ryan.torsell@equityutah.com
www.ListYourUtahHome.com
(801) 419-1943