What Your Murray Home Is Worth

Automated valuations work from public records. They have never been inside your house.

They do not know what you did to the kitchen, whether the roof is four years old or nineteen, or that the house two streets over sold badly for reasons that had nothing to do with the market. That cuts both ways, and the gap is regularly tens of thousands of dollars in either direction.

Stripped of the brochure, Murray is the geographic middle of Salt Lake valley. The recent median sat near $539,000. Murray central connecting frontrunner and trax, and the jordan river parkway within reach, and almost everywhere else in the valley is a short drive.

Why a Murray number needs a person. A citywide median near $539,000 is a starting point and nothing more, because several waves of building, so age and condition range widely.

Murray and West Jordan sit at nearly the same median, so moving further west to meet a budget is not automatically the answer. That is local behaviour an automated estimate cannot see, and it moves real money on your number. So does the fact that residential streets need comparing carefully against the commercial corridors nearby

A number means more with context, so here is how the towns either side sit against this one.

Salt Lake City runs around $99,000 higher on recent medians. What you get instead is the only part of the valley with genuinely distinct neighborhoods. The catch is that space, parking and condition vary considerably block to block

Sandy runs around $153,000 higher on recent medians. What you get instead is established suburban streets with the Wasatch directly behind them. The catch is that higher prices, particularly for the foothill locations

If one of those suits your situation better, I will say so. A listing I talk somebody into is a listing that sits.