What Your Sandy 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.

Here is Sandy in short: it is established suburban streets with the Wasatch directly behind them, and the recent median sat near $692,000. Test the work route and the recreation route, because a canyon nearby does not remove peak-time traffic, and the approach to Little Cottonwood Canyon, closer here than anywhere else on this list is what people actually end up talking about.

Why a Sandy number needs a person. A citywide median near $692,000 is a starting point and nothing more, because newer than Salt Lake City, older than the planned communities southwest.

Central Sandy and the eastern foothills are different propositions, and the foothills sit above the Sandy median again. That is local behaviour an automated estimate cannot see, and it moves real money on your number. So does the fact that higher prices, particularly for the foothill locations

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

Draper runs around $126,000 higher on recent medians. What you get instead is Corner Canyon at the top of the street and the southern end of the valley. The catch is that the highest median of these cities, and valley floor and hillside drive very differently

Murray comes in around $153,000 lower on recent medians. What you get instead is the geographic middle of Salt Lake valley. The catch is that residential streets need comparing carefully against the commercial corridors nearby

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