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Lisa Riley Roche

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News

    Where's the most favorable market for Utah homebuyers? (opens the original)

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    SALT LAKE CITY — The best place for homebuyers to get a deal in Utah? It's Hurricane, Washington County, according to a new analysis. The rapidly growing southern Utah community with a population of nearly 27,000, situated between St. George and Zion National Park, is ranked as the state's strongest market for homebuyers by a ConsumerAffairs analysis of data collected by ZIP code nationwide. "Buyers do have significantly more leverage in Hurricane," said Emily Merkley, CEO of the Washington Coun

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News

    Did mortgage payments just get a little lower for new homebuyers? (opens the original)

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    SALT LAKE CITY — Americans applying for mortgages in August saw a slight decrease in the size of a typical monthly payment from the previous month, a new analysis from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows. The national median payment applied for by new mortgage applicants dropped $13 to $2,162 in August, from $2,175 in July, according to the analysis based on weekly survey data collected by the association. That payment, however, was up by $62 from a year ago, a 2.9% increase. Still, the assoc

  3. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News

    Why the IOC president's Utah visit is important to US Olympic leaders (opens the original)

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    SALT LAKE CITY — Even though the International Olympic Committee's new president, Kirsty Coventry, visited Utah this week, she didn't make it to the nearby Colorado Springs headquarters of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. But the USOPC still benefited from the day Coventry spent in the state talking about the 2034 Winter Games with a wide range of Utahns, from Gov. Spencer Cox and other elected officials to a grade school assembly to the teens on the Utah Lady Grizzlies hockey teams. H

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News

    Mortgage rates just keep climbing (opens the original)

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    SALT LAKE CITY — Mortgage rates are continuing to go up. After a fifth straight week of increases, the weekly average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in the U.S. hit 7.03% Thursday, according to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, better known as Freddie Mac. It's the first time the mortgage giant's weekly average has been above 7% since January 2025, but mortgage rates tracked daily had reached that level earlier this month and have just kept climbing. At Mortgage News Daily, the

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News

    Here's a chance to tour some of the luxury homes for sale in Utah (opens the original)

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    SALT LAKE CITY — Most of the more than 100 properties in Utah where open houses are scheduled this weekend by Summit Sotheby's International Realty carry a price tag of $1 million or more. In some cases, much, much more. Like $16.5 million for a fully furnished six-bedroom, six-bath (plus two partial baths) "premier mountain estate" with an elevator, rooftop deck and adjoining lot in Park City built in 2018 next to four holes of the private Promontory Club's Nicklaus Painted Valley Golf Course.

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