September’s Wasatch Front market: fewer sales, different price signals.

In Salt Lake County, the September median was 1.1% lower year over year, but its median through September year to date was 1.8% higher. Utah County’s corresponding figures were up 4.2% for September and 5.0% year to date. Those can coexist because each period contains a different mix of closed homes; neither comparison alone measures the change in value of an individual property.

The county report also shows more homes for sale than a year earlier in both areas, especially Salt Lake County. “Months supply” is a separate inventory measure in the same report; it should not be read as a promise that a home will sell in that many months.

Utah REALTORS® notes that figures for one month can look extreme because of small sample sizes, and that the sales-price data do not account for seller concessions. Use the year-to-date context alongside the single-month snapshot, and compare like property types and geographies when you need a narrower answer.

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute published Utah’s first statewide subcounty population estimates on May 5, 2026, covering change from 2024 to 2025. Its release reports that 172 communities grew and 100 declined; it also says Salt Lake City added more than 3,000 residents over that period.

Those estimates provide place-level population context, not current home sales, neighborhood-level prices, or a forecast of housing demand. They are a separate dataset with a different reporting period and method.