From Deseret News archives:
Utah real estate 'healthy'
State bucks trend of gloomy forecasts for other markets
But speakers at a meeting Tuesday about the "Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2008" report said Utah has a hard-charging economy and demographics that will insulate it from a lot of the troubles besetting the real estate industry nationwide.
"Our fundamentals are absolutely outstanding," Michael Richmond, a commercial real estate broker for Commerce CRG/Cushman Wakefield, said at the meeting of the Salt Lake District Council of the Urban Land Institute.
The 29th annual report was undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, a research and educational group, and is based on surveys of more than 600 industry experts nationwide. The report can be found at www.uli.org.
Salt Lake City was a middle-of-the-pack market in several rankings in the report, including prospects for commercial and multifamily investment and development, and prospects for for-sale homebuilding. But speakers said Utah's strong economy portends continued real estate industry growth.
Richmond said Salt Lake's rankings were due to the city being "lumped in" with other secondary and tertiary markets, and the city was "too small to be on the radar screen."
Michael Hansen, director of state and local planning in the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget, said Utah's "white-hot economy" is driven by a booming population and continued job growth, and buoyed by exports and manufacturing, defense spending, quality-of-life amenities and a highly educated work force, in addition to "skyrocketing" home values.
In many respects, Utah is "almost an untapped market" because of the strong economic factors, he said. Those factors will result in continued growth, he said.
Richmond said any white-hot real estate markets in Utah could not be sustained. "If you see headlines about the economy slowing in Utah, yes, but it's not panic," he said. "I think it's being back to more sustainable, more healthy levels."
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