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Salt Lake County home prices climbed to an all-time high in the third quarter, according to the Salt Lake Board of Realtors®. The median single-family home price in the July-through-September period reached $381,500. That’s up 7.5 percent compared to a median price of $355,000 in last year’s third quarter. Just three years ago, the median single-family home price reached $300,000, which was then an all-time high price. The previous peak home price was in the third quarter of 2007, when home prices topped $256,000 (or $298,085 in inflation-adjusted dollars). Home prices increased across all Wasatch Front counties including: Davis, up 6.2 percent; Tooele, up 2.6 percent; Utah, up 4.4 percent; and Weber, up 10.3 percent. Sales of single-family homes in Salt Lake County were flat (up 0.7 percent) in the third quarter year-over-year. Davis County saw sales increase 9.8 percent. Sales in Tooele County were up 4.7 percent. Utah County sales were up 11.8 percent. Sales in Weber County were up 12.1 percent. In the third quarter, the typical Salt Lake home was on the market 37 days before it sold – six days longer than the average time for a home to sell during the third quarter of 2018

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