Moving Up to a Bigger Home in Murray

Finding a bigger house is not the hard part. The hard part is that you already own one, and the two transactions have to line up.

Sell first and you may have nowhere to live. Buy first and you may carry two payments. Close the same day and you are depending on two sets of people hitting one date. Every approach has a cost, and any agent who says otherwise has not done many of them.

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.

Moving up within Murray. A median near $539,000 is what makes a move-up work in Murray, because it leaves room between what you sell and what you buy.

Selling here to buy here puts you on both sides of the same market. Murray and West Jordan sit at nearly the same median, so moving further west to meet a budget is not automatically the answer. That works for you on one transaction and against you on the other, which is why the sequencing matters more than usual. Almost everywhere else in the valley is a short drive.

Trading up often means moving one town over rather than one street over, so both neighbours are worth pricing.

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 fits what you have described better, I would rather point you at it now than show you eight houses here first.