We are excited to announce that we have broke ground on our Brooklyn Meadows subdivision in South Jordan.  This gorgeous east South Jordan community offers quarter to almost third acre cul-de-sac home sites from the mid $200s! Conveniently located minutes to I-15, shopping and fine dining, Brooklyn Meadows is a private, quaint community featuring mature trees and brilliant floor plans to fit any family’s needs.  Click here for more information.

August 5, 2010 Henry Walker Homes, Utah’s newest single-family homebuilder, announced its expansion into Washington County. Henry Walker Homes’ southern division will provide new homes with a focus on flexibility, efficiency, livability and curb appeal at pricing that will represent real value to the homebuyer. Henry Walker Homes begins its expansion with the purchase of 84 finished lots in the third phase of the Kachina Springs development in Washington County, which will now be called the Escapes at Entrada…   Click Here to View Full Article

Old Farm at Kays Creek is a premier luxury home community surrounded by open fields, neighboring upscale homes and panoramic views.  This truly unique neighborhood offers the opportunity to purchase a large lot (most lots are ½ acre or larger) and choose to have Henry Walker Homes build your home.  >>read more<<

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n Kiplinger’s latest search for top cities, we focused on places that specialize in out-of-the-box thinking. “New ideas generate new businesses,” says Kevin Stolarick, our numbers guru, who this year evaluated U.S. cities for growth and growth potential. Stolarick is research director at the Martin Prosperity Institute, a think tank that studies economic prosperity. “In the places where innovation works, it really works,” he says.

After researching and visiting our 2010 Best Cities, it became clear that the innovation factor has three elements. Mark Emmert, president of the University of Washington in Seattle, put his finger on two of them: smart people and great ideas. But we’d argue that it’s the third element — collaboration — that really supercharges a city’s economic engine. When governments, universities and business communities work together, the economic vitality is impressive.

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Paulson, who made his comments in a conference call with investors, said home ownership is the most affordable it has been in 50 years. He said residential real estate is 60 percent more affordable than it was at the peak of the housing bubble.

Paulson added that his firm closely tracks home prices in California; he believes they are the most important indicator what the rest of the country’s housing markets will experience six months from now.

He also said the United States is in a strong V-shaped economic recovery. He said his concerns about a double-dip recession have fallen sharply since the beginning of the year.

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“Home builders have had this pent-up inventory,” said Layton economic specialist Ben Hart. “That inventory is starting to be absorbed,”

In 2008, Layton issued a number of building permits for homes that ultimately were not completed because of financial constraints the applicants were experiencing, Hart said. He believes much of that was a result of the economic downturn.

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Eric Allen, director of Metrostudy’s Utah/Idaho region, said the most notable change in the new-home market has been in the category of finished vacant detached-home inventory. Metrostudy uses finished vacant inventory as a fundamental indicator to monitor the health of housing markets.

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The collapse of the state’s housing bubble in 2008 wiped out at least $20 billion in residential real estate wealth, eliminated thousands of construction jobs and forced hundreds of homebuilders out of business, according to James Wood, director of the University of Utah’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research.

Yet Wood, in a new research report titled “Utah’s Homebuilding Industry: Present Perspective, Future Prospects,” suggests…

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