Utah Top Agent Magazine Features Joel Carson

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Utah Real Estate President and Principal Broker, Joel Carson is featured on the cover of Top Agent Magazine's August 2015 edition.

"I really am honored to have been pursued and then featured by this major industry publication," Carson said. "I have worked hard along with my team members to make our company what it is today. It's still in it's infancy, but quickly growing into a Utah giant in the housing market."

Top Agent Magazine is a trade publication featuring the best real estate agents in the USA, Europe, Canada and Australia. It features the top-producing and most accomplished agents in in the real estate industry, offering an in-depth look at their careers and providing a blueprint for their success. The real estate magazine first launched in Los Angeles and quickly expanded across the country and the world. Top Agent Magazine now has an edition in all 50 states as well as international, European, Canadian, and Australian editions of the magazine.

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Downtown Salt Lake Farmers Market Kicks Off

What: Downtown Salt Lake City Farmers Market Kickoff and Fund Raiser
Where: Squatters Pub Brewer, 147 W. Broadway (300 South), Salt Lake
When: Tuesday, June 3, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Easy access to exciting events is just one reason I really appreciate my home in Salt Lake City. There’s always something going on to highlight local gardeners and farmers, artists, sports fans, music connoisseurs and more!

On Tuesday, June 3, the Downtown Farmers Market will begin with a season launch at Squatters Pub Brewer, 147 W. Broadway (300 South). The party is scheduled for 5:30-8:30 p.m.

While local food vendors entertain the crowd with great cuisine, artists will offer participants unique, original art.

Brewmaster Jason Stock has created a special ale for the event using locally sourced ingredients. It’s a limited edition!

If you lived in a Salt Lake City home in the Avenues you could arrive in just minutes!

Tickets are $40 in advance, $50 at the door. Visit the Farmers Market website to purchase tickets.

Salt Lake City is wonderful, lively and active city. If you're in the market for a Utah home, or if you have a Utah home for sale, call or text me today at 801-673-3333. Browse Wasatch Front Regional MLS homes 24/7 at www.allutahhomes.com.

2014 Sundance Film Festival to Host Special Preview

30th Anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival

130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramović, directed by Matthu Placek, will compete with other short films in the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Photo by Michael Berlucci is courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from a press release courtesy of the Sundance Institute originally published online on Jan. 13, 2014.)

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute today announced that the 2014 Sundance Film Festival will host special preview screenings of Boyhood by Richard Linklater, premiering Sunday, Jan. 19, 9:45 p.m. at the Eccles Theatre, 1750 Kearns Blvd, Park City, UT 84060. The 2014 Festival takes place January 16-26 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.

With the addition of Boyhood, the 2014 Festival will present 121 feature-length films, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 35 in competition. These films were selected from 12,218 submissions (72 more than for 2013), including 4,057 feature-length films and 8,161 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 2,014 were from the U.S. and 2,043 were international. One hundred feature films at the Festival will be world premieres.

Boyhood / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Richard Linklater) — Filmed over short periods from 2002 to 2013, Boyhood is a groundbreaking cinematic experience covering 12 years in the life of a family. At the center is Mason, who with his sister Samantha, are taken on an emotional and transcendent journey through the years, from childhood to adulthood. Cast: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater.

Sundance Institute 

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a global, nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to nurturing artistic expression in film and theater, and to supporting intercultural dialogue between artists and audiences. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to unite, inform and inspire, regardless of geo-political, social, religious or cultural differences. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Sin Nombre, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.

While you're visiting Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, why not tour some of the amazing homes for sale in the area. Please browse our listings at www.allparkcityhomes.com. Need assistance purchasing the perfect Park City resort property? Call or text Joel Carson at 801-673-3333 today.

Park City Resort Celebrates 50 Years

by Joel Carson
President/Principal Broker
Utah Real Estate
SLBR 2012 'Salesperson of the Year'

Park City Mountain Resort opens Nov. 23. Get ready! This season is going to be epic because the resort is celebrating its 50^th anniversary.

The celebration will last throughout the 2013-14 season and (like everything else in this golden community) it is going to be grand. If you lived in Park City, you’d be home by now.

One of North America’s great ski towns, Park City will host the huge announcement of the first-ever U.S. Olympic Freeskiing team in January 2014. The announcement will follow the team’s final qualification event – the Visa U.S. Grand Prix – for halfpipe and slopestyle to prepare for the Sochi 2014 games. Now would be a fantastic time to purchase a Park City investment home, or a Park City vacation home if you love to be right in the center of the action.

The resort has dubbed this, “A season fifty years in the making.” Recent controversy surrounding the resort over legal lease issues makes this a very important public relations event for the resort and the entire community.

The resort’s anniversary kickoff party will start with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The resort first opened in 1963 as Treasure Mountains Resort. Many people will be hunting for treasure at the resort during the kickoff on Nov. 23 in the form of one-of-a-kind mementos the resort says it will give away all day.

Following is a list of events as described by the resort on its official website:

9 a.m. sharp: The lifts begin turning! Each person on the 'First Chair' at all lifts open on Opening Day will receive a commemorative 50th Anniversary t-shirt. Hot beverages and snacks will be available in the Plaza.

2 p.m.: Aprés Concert on the PayDay Deck with the Motherlode Canyons Band, part of the Miller Lite Après Concert Series.

While you’re in Park City, why not tour some of the fabulous homes for sale there. Take time to browse through our listings at www.allparkcityhomes.com. Mark a few favorites and then contact me to schedule a private showing. It’s going to be a great season, why not enjoy it from the comfort of your own Park City home?

Thumbs Up for 2013 Third Quarter Home Sales Statistics

by Joel Carson
President/Principal Broker
Utah Real Estate
SLBR 2012 'Salesperson of the Year'

Utah home sales showed continued improvement during the third quarter of 2013 when compared to the same period of time in the three years prior. Sales increased by 10.05 percent and the median sold price jumped 12.99 percent, according to the Wasatch Front Regional Multiple Listing Service.  Inventory increased in the third quarter and homes sold 30.95 percent faster.

Utah Home Sales Steadily Increase
Compared to the 9,874 Utah homes sold in the third quarter this year, 2010 sales look bleak—only 5,935 homes sold in the third quarter that year. In 2011 sales increased 28.59 percent to 7,632. Sales in 2012 increased 17.56 percent over the previous year (8,972). This year’s sales demonstrate a steady long-term increase with a 10.05 hike over 2012.

Median Home Prices Continue to Climb in Beehive State
In the third quarter of 2010 the median home price was $195,000. That price dipped by 10.77 percent in 2011 when the median home price was $174,000. By 2012 Utahans had begun to see a slight increase in the median home price; it was up 6.9 percent over the previous year at $186,000. This year the third quarter median home price is 12.99 percent higher than it was in 2012 at $210,153. This is an encouraging sign of improvement in the housing market here overall.

Utah Homes for Sale are Selling Faster
In the third quarter of 2010 home sales were dragging. The current days on market (CDOM) was 77. Homes started to move a little faster in 2011 when the CDOM dropped 3.9 percent to 74. In 2012 Utah home sellers saw a 43.24 percent improvement when the CDOM dropped to 42. This year? The CDOM is at the lowest it’s been in years at 29. It could be home buyers are recognizing the likelihood that interest rates will go up as the jobless rate goes down. Some are worried about low inventory; although new listings are up 23.95 percent this year over last year’s third quarter. Others want to take advantage of low prices while they last.

Inventory Holding Steady
Home sellers must be feeling better about the housing market as more and more homes are being added to the statewide inventory; more homes were listed during the third quarter this year than were listed for the previous three years.

In 2010 a total of 1,5040 homes were listed in the third quarter with a median asking price of $194,900. Of those new listings, 39.46 percent sold.

In 2011 new listings dropped by 14.29 percent. A total of only 12,891 homes were listed with an even lower asking price (2.57 percent lower) of $189,900; 59.20 percent of those listings sold.

By 2012 the inventory situation was starting to look a little bleak. New listings dropped further in the third quarter (-1.42 percent). The median asking price was higher than the year before (5.32 percent) and a whopping 70.60 percent of the third quarter new listings sold. This year, listings were up 23.95 percent higher than those in the previous year; 15,752 homes were listed with a median asking price of $227,900; 62.68 percent of the new listings sold during the third quarter this year.

The bottom line? We’re seeing more homes sell for more money at higher prices than they have since 2010. These are all healthy indicators.

It remains to be seen what kind of impact the government shut down will have on fourth quarter sales. I’ll be here watching and will report information to you as it becomes available.
If you’re ready to buy a new home in Utah, call me today at 801-673-3333. Feel free to browse our fully searchable inventory at www.allutahhomes.com any time, 24/7.