Eightline Real Estate

02/26/2026

Price and Appreciation Highlights

In 2025, the median sales price for a single-family home in Salt Lake County was $620,000, indicating a market that was stabilizing rather than surging. Draper reported the highest median price among the cities analyzed at $990,000, reflecting a 3% year-over-year increase. Since 2020, Draper’s median price had risen 57.9%, representing the strongest five-year appreciation in the group. Overall, most cities experienced modest year-over-year changes. For buyers, this shift meant improved negotiating conditions, although affordability continued to be influenced by the substantial gains recorded over the previous five years.

01/14/2026

We're excited to share our second episode of Finding Salt Lake City with the American Dream Network!

As we grow our valued principles of Integrity, Quality, and Connection we are super stoked to be highlighting local businesses, organizations and individuals who are doing extraordinary work that is connected to the neighborhoods and communities we call HOME.

This episode features the Sugar House Art Walk with Laurie Jan Bray and Lizzie Wenger.

"Spend your dollars at places that look like the world you want to live in!"

12/31/2025

I'm so delighted to be in a position to work with people making real estate moves, leveraging my experience and expertise to my clients' benefit, and this is a fine review to welcome 2026!

"Meticulous attention to detail. Kelly provided a comprehensive assessment of the current real estate market in our chosen search area, negotiated effectively with sellers, and created a positive, welcoming environment. He was always prompt and kept us well informed throughout the entire purchasing process.
I know exactly who I will choose as my realtor in the future: Kelly Hannah. He rocks!" - Josh

Professional Real Estate - Call Kelly Hannah at 801-558-6143

And you can read others here:

5.0 ⭐ · Real estate agency in Salt Lake City, Utah

12/18/2025

I’m 5 years into connecting my Professional Real Estate work with my Great Salt Lake advocacy efforts, and as I’m driving around the valley delivering Eightline’s 2026 Great Salt Lake calendars (featuring my own landscape photography) I’m reminded that the value of home is profoundly more important than the value of a house, or a dollar.

While I mail some of the calendars with the US Postal Service, most of them I hand deliver, and I like it that way. It’s a time of reflection, connection, and continued education to (re)visit the street where I have helped people purchase and sell throughout my career, some of them 25 years ago! It’s an objective tour (not impacted by any particular client’s perspective when they are with me on a tour) through the many cities and neighborhoods along the Wasatch Front and Wasatch Back. It’s keeping a beat on growth and development, making note of patterns of gentrification and decay - it’s not unlike taking a backcountry tour that requires a profound analysis of what the landscape and conditions have to offer today, and how that might impacts my clients, how that impacts each of us.

I am filled with gratitude and appreciation as I see the varied manifestations of home across such a diverse range of locations. Over the past couple weeks I’ve meandered through cities and neighborhoods, my love of trip chaining, Magna to West Valley City to Taylorsville to South Salt Lake to Millcreek. Of course, within Salt Lake City, I’ve made way through Federal Heights, University, The Avenues, 9th and 9th, Liberty Wells, Cenral City, Rose Park and Glendale before looping on the freeway into Highland Park and Sugar House. This year I started north and I’m moving south. Last year I started south moved north.

Real estate has never been transactionally based for me, but built on a foundation of the most simple quality on which we my clients have reliably, proverbially, and literally built their homes. That, I love!

If you’d like one of this year’s calendars, and you’re not already on my map, so to speak, drop me a line and I’ll get one your way. I ordered a generous batch this year because I think our Great Salt Lake Home is more important than ever!

Kelly Hannah 801-558-6143

https://www.kellyhannah.com/realestate

11/03/2025

Welcome to "Finding Salt Lake City" our Premier Episode on the American Dream Network!

I'm your host of The American Dream and I'm excited to help you discover the local and independent businesses and organizations that are bringing deep value to our communities and neighborhoods.

Click in and take a look at Randy's Record Shop and Pantry Products and come on down to the Maven District and "Spend your dollars at places that look like the world you want to live in!"

Welcome to "Finding Salt Lake City" on the Network. I'm Kelly Hannah, your host of The American Dream and I'm excited to help you discove...

10/29/2025

This Canyon Rim home has all the right pieces - a rare and complete property package! 2036 E Highland View Circle (2795 South) will be open Satuday 11/01 from 2-4 PM.

https://utahrealestate.com/2036-E-HIGHLAND-VIEW-CIR-Salt-Lake-City-UT-84109/2119768

10/23/2025

I spent some time over the last couple of days re-finishing my business sign. Sand and finish. Yesterday, I thought I may only need one coat, but today I saw that the mahogany had soaked up all the stain from yesterday and it was calling for more. I put on a second coat, and I'm glad I did.

It was thought provoking work, zen-like peaceful strokes, one after another - paying attention to all of the details. The stain soaks in some places more than others. It beads at the horizontal lines where the boards meet. It wants to drip from the bottom points, like the teardrop shape in the top of the eight - all requiring attention, a blend of looking closely and stepping back to see the whole perspective. I really enjoyed gently getting into the spaces between the g and the e’s, and especially the dots around the i’s… I love dotting i’s!

The eightline mark represents my clients as the beginning and the end of my real estate work - always coming back to their needs and priorities, over 25 years, and it was delightful to reflect on that philosophy while I was working on this sign. Moving through the detail of the finish reminded me of a professionally demanding attention to detail this morning as I was preparing a market analysis for an upcoming listing - looking at my sellers value proposition from a variety of perspectives; from the statistical characteristics of the market over time, to the qualities of the home’s space and improvements, to its differentiating features from the other properties currently for sale… I know this because I previewed them last week.

I'm talking about true quality and value, not the superficial manifestation of those characteristics. I invest substantial time pre-listing to find those best qualities and values of the home so I can communicate those to the potential buyers. Often, I hear buyers say “wow, I didn’t notice that” thank you for pointing it out.

I was amazed while I was previewing last week, once again, at the prevalence of mediocrity in the market, and it became clear why so many of those properties were still on the market; poorly showing houses, prices that missed the mark, doses of bad counsel, and some gross marketing misrepresentations, too, which is never a good selling proposition.

I’m not working that way. Ever.

Anyway, these are the things I was thinking about while I was re-finishing my sign, and I'm glad I did. It’s eightline real estate.

Stay tuned for a special piece of property coming to the market this weekend! It’s got all of the parts of great piece of real estate, and potential for more, too!

10/07/2025

09/05/2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/mortgage-rates-drop.html

Mortgage rates plunged sharply following the release of a weaker-than-expected August employment report. Rates are now at the lowest level since October.

08/05/2025

Last week I wrote about the Value of Home, and today I’d like to share a few thoughts about the Value of (a) House – “3 Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, with an updated kitchen in 2,800 square feet. New roof, new flooring and new paint! Must See!!!”

I’ve used “Trust but Verify” as an integral part of my real estate work for decades, including when working on property pricing e(valu)ations. Value leads price, and when I am helping my clients consider the price and value of a property, we look at how those characteristics work together, combining roughly equal parts - art and science; the quantitative mechanical and measurable data point driven market analysis, verified by the qualitative consideration of the more intangible, and more challenging to measure, and subtle characteristics related value, and visa-versa.

We all know that 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, with an updated kitchen comes in many forms. Exploring value beyond price, we look at the layout of the 2,800 square feet, five foot ceilings downstairs, or seven? How do the segments of that living space relate to each other? Sometimes there’s a truth that’s hard to reconcile. Is the new roof a new 3-tab shingle layer over another, and another or is it complete with new sheathing? Was that new floor leveled up before it was installed or “rolled” over what was already there? Does the new paint include the switch plates and outlet covers! Does that range hood vent outside or recirculate back into your kitchen? It gets most exciting from here: How is the house situated in the neighborhood, on the street, on the lot? Details matter. How does the sunlight strike the property? Winter? Summer? I’m thinking about that backyard patio, or the driveway, or that special spot in your favorite room, or your cat's favorite. Quality and longevity of materials. Is the landscaping established or newly installed for the market show? What else do we see on the street? Interesting, too, that saying hello to a few neighbors provides years of insights in only a few minutes… yet almost no one does it. Oh, and those permits, were those pulled, closed or left open?... It’s just a short list of Values to consider while thinking about Price.

If you find yourself looking to make a Utah real estate move, or would simply like to have a deep dive conversation about nuances of our real estate market – past, present, and future, please connect with me at 801-558-6143. With gratitude and appreciation. Kelly

07/29/2025

https://www.fool.com/money/research/average-house-price-state/

The average house price in the United States as of the fourth quarter of 2023 is $417,700. See how states compare here.