Relocating to Murray

The hardest part of relocating is being asked to choose a community from photographs and a map.

I have lived along the Wasatch Front since 1992. What that is worth to you is honest comparison: what the commute genuinely is at the hour you would drive it, which areas are quiet, and where the trade-offs are. I will tell you when somewhere is not the right fit for what you have described, including when it is somewhere I sell.

Here is Murray in short: it is the geographic middle of Salt Lake valley, and the recent median sat near $539,000. Almost everywhere else in the valley is a short drive, and Murray Central connecting FrontRunner and TRAX, and the Jordan River Parkway is what people actually end up talking about.

What I would tell you about Murray from out of state. The geographic middle of salt lake valley. Murray and West Jordan sit at nearly the same median, so moving further west to meet a budget is not automatically the answer.

The thing that shapes an ordinary week here is Murray Central connecting FrontRunner and TRAX, and the Jordan River Parkway. The honest trade-off is that residential streets need comparing carefully against the commercial corridors nearby Neither shows up in a listing photograph, which is exactly why you are asking somebody who works here.

From out of state these names mean nothing, so here is how the towns either side actually differ.

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.