Homie Blog

In a Phoenix-metro market where prices have climbed for years, the fees tied to buying and selling have quietly climbed too, and a lot of that money never had to leave your pocket. Homie was built to fix that. We are a licensed Arizona real estate brokerage with one mission: make homeownership more affordable, and help you keep more of your own money. Here are five reasons Ar...

Zillow’s home-value index put the typical Avondale home near $398,000 in mid-2026, down a little under 2 percent on the year, while homes newly listed for sale in July carried a median closer to $453,000. That gap between what homes are worth and what sellers are asking tells you most of what you need to know about this Southwest Valley market: it sits at the affordable end o...

A decade ago American Fork was a quiet north Utah County town best known for its canyon and its hospital. Then Silicon Slopes arrived next door. The tech corridor built around Lehi and Thanksgiving Point pushed thousands of high-paying jobs to American Fork’s doorstep, and the housing market reorganized itself around that commute. In 2026 the typical American Fork home carrie...

A home in one Wasatch Front city was taking about six weeks to sell in mid-2026 while a home a half-hour away was gone in under two. That spread, not the statewide average everyone quotes, is what tells a buyer where the negotiating room actually sits. The longer homes linger in a city, the more its sellers reach for price cuts, rate buydowns, and closing help to get ...

Utah taxes your primary home on only 55 percent of its value. The other 45 percent is exempt, knocked off the taxable base before your rate is ever applied, under a statute most homeowners benefit from without ever thinking about it. The confusion starts when people mix this up with the homestead exemption, a completely separate law that shields equity from creditors,...