The median single-family home price in the third quarter in Salt Lake County climbed to $255,000, a 17 percent jump compared to a median price of $218,000 last year during the same quarter. While overall home prices were up, some ZIP code areas showed house price declines. Those areas included: Sandy (84093) down 2 percent; North Salt Lake (84054) down 4 percent; American Fork (84003) down 11 percent; Orem (84097) down 1 percent.

Today’s median home prices are near the same level they were in the summer of 2007. The higher home prices, coupled with slightly higher mortgage interest rates, have slowed existing home sales. Since the first quarter of 2012 (when home prices bottomed) the median single-family home price in Salt Lake County has climbed 34 percent.

The median price of single-family homes sold across the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, Weber and Tooele counties) in the third quarter was $232,500, a 15 percent increase compared to the third quarter in 2012. Sales of single-family homes were up 8 percent along the Wasatch Front in the same quarter.