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Midway Utah Real Estate: Homes, Land and New Construction

Midway Utah Real Estate:

Midway is one of the most beautiful small towns in the United States. Within the past two years, three outstanding restaurants have opened their doors, which have helped contribute to a lively main street and three more reasons to live in Midway. If you're searching for Midway real estate you have several options: single-family homes, condos, and vacant lots for building new construction. While some cabins are available in the mountains around Midway in the $300,000 price range, the single-family home market starts at around $450,000 in town. Midway's luxury segment has taken off over the past two years as well - in the past 12 months, nine properties over $1,000,000 have sold, and two of the properties sold for over…

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Park City Realtor Success Stories

Success Stories and Reasons Why to Hire
Derrik Carlson as Your Park City Realtor!

A few weeks back I was driving when an agent called me to inform me we had gone under contract on a Park City property. At that point, I realized one of my favorite parts of selling real estate is negotiating a great deal for my clients! The two most rewarding parts of selling Park City real estate are negotiating a deal to get everything the buyer/seller wants or when a child runs into their new room calling out "THIS IS MY ROOM" to stake their claim. 

In this post, I will tell you a few success stories about selling real estate in the Park City area. I take part in luxury real estate coaching that has helped my business tremendously. Over the past few years, coaching…

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Advantages of Working with Derrik Carlson & Keller Williams in Park City

The Advantages of Working with Derrik Carlson & KW Park City Keller Williams Real Estate:

In this article, I will tell you the benefits of working with Derrik Carlson, a top-producing realtor in Park City, Utah. We will also dive into the benefits of working with the number one real estate brokerage in the world, Keller Williams, and the group Keller Williams Luxury International.

Park City and the surrounding area is what we call an inbound market. The average buyer comes from over 500 miles away when moving to or buying a vacation property in the Park City area. That means the listing broker and agent must have a long reach to attract international buyers and buyers from Alaska to Florida and New York to California. 

In reality, about 1% of…

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Best Website to Search Park City, Utah Real Estate for Sale

It has taken thousands of hours to build what I believe is the best real estate website to search for Park City real estate for sale.  On our new website at www.RealEstateInParkCity.com, you can search for condos, homes, and land.  The user also can save a search to stay updated on the local listings.  The site provides the ability to search with a map and filter the results by bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, lot size, year built, days on the website (or days on the market), nightly rental eligibility, waterfront, golf properties, horse properties, hiking and biking properties, ski properties, public remarks.  If you're familiar with Park City, you can choose the area of town you would like to search. 

We have built specific pages for different local…

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Capital Gains When You Sell Your Primary Residence

In the past week, I have overheard three different discussions about capital gains when someone is selling their Park City home. Capital gains on the sale of a primary residence is often misunderstood and because I'm not a CPA, tax advisor, etc I must say it's best to consult a licensed professional regarding any proceeds when selling a property. 

Here's what the IRS has to say about the sale of your home: "If you have a capital gain from the sale of your main home, you may qualify to exclude up to $250,000 of that gain from your income. You may qualify to exclude up to $500,000 of that gain if you file a joint return with your spouse. Publication 523, Selling Your Home, provides rules and worksheets. Topic 409 covers general capital gain and loss…

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Where do Park City Property Owners Come From? UT, CA, FL, TX, NY, ...

Who Buys Real Estate in Park City, Utah

Below you will find the ranking, location, number of owners, and percentage of homes owned are from that purchase a property in Park City, Utah.  The numbers below come from local statistics delivered by county title records.

The percent of ownership appears to be what I would expect except for Florida being at number three and Hawaii being in the top ten. There is often talk about how important marketing globally is for Park City real estate sales but our international sales only account for 1.02% of the market and Mexico is 40% of the international market share. The fact that Mexico owners are 40% of the international owners in Park City is surprising to me because in the past year I've worked with more…

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