The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute provides leading real estate and construction research for the State of Utah. Our research provides decision makers with critical information about residential and non-residential construction trends and issues. In addition to construction research, our work focuses on housing research related to affordability and market stability. Our team works closely with real estate professionals, planners, economists, researchers and business, and community leaders to make informed decisions about the Utah economy.

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Recent Publications

2023

• Policy Brief: Housing Prices and Affordability

2022

• Ivory-Boyer Construction Report Second Quarter 2022
• The Changing Dynamics of the Wasatch Front Apartment Market
• Ivory-Boyer Construction Report First Quarter 2022
• Policy Brief: Short-Term Rental Inventory
• Ivory-Boyer Construction Report Fourth Quarter 2021
• Salt Lake County’s Historic Apartment Boom: Past, Present, and Future
• Ivory-Boyer Construction Report Third Quarter 2021

2021

• The State of the State’s Housing Market
• Ivory-Boyer Second Quarter Report 2021
• Ivory-Boyer First Quarter Report 2021
• The Impact of High-Density Apartments on Surrounding Single-Family Home Values in Suburban Salt Lake County

2020

• Housing Affordability: What Are Best Practices and Why Are They Important?
• What’s Keeping Utah’s Real Estate Market Hot in the Time of COVID?
• Survey of Utah’s Top Homebuilders
• Ivory-Boyer Fourth Quarter Report 2020
• Ivory-Boyer Third Quarter Report 2020
• Ivory-Boyer Second Quarter Report 2020
• Ivory-Boyer First Quarter Report 2020

2019

• Blog: Construction Jobs are not Keeping up with Construction Activity
• Blog: Rising Rents and Changing Preferences Define Salt Lake’s Rental Apartment Market
• The Salt Lake Apartment Market: An Analysis of Apartment Rental Rates in the Greater Salt Lake Region
• Blog: Getting to Know the New Ivory-Boyer Construction Database 
• Blog: Utah’s Top-20 Homebuilder Sentiment Survey
• Ivory-Boyer Year-End Report 2019
• Ivory-Boyer Third Quarter Report 2019
• Ivory-Boyer Second Quarter Report 2019
• Ivory-Boyer First Quarter Report 2019

2018

• The Year in Charts: Utah’s Housing Market 2018
• Salt Lake City’s Current Apartment Boom: An Analysis of Salt Lake City’s Record Apartment Growth
• Blog: A Note of Clarification on Utah’s Housing Shortage
• Blog: Act now to avoid a housing affordability crisis in Utah
• Blog: Utah Housing Affordability: Avoiding a Potential Crisis
• Gardner Business Review: What Rapidly Rising Prices Mean for Housing Affordability
• Research Brief: Housing Prices and the Threat to Affordability
• Salt Lake County Real Estate Conditions and Forecast, 2016-2017
• Salt Lake City’s Downtown Rental Market: Past, Present, and Future
• Salt Lake County Real Estate Conditions and Forecast, 2015-2016
• Ivory-Boyer Fourth Quarter Report 2018
• Ivory-Boyer Third Quarter Report 2018
• Ivory-Boyer Second Quarter Report 2018
• Ivory-Boyer First Quarter Report 2018

2017

• Ivory-Boyer Fourth Quarter Report 2017
• Ivory-Boyer Third Quarter Report 2017
• Ivory-Boyer Second Quarter Report 2017
• Ivory-Boyer First Quarter Report 2017

2016

• Ivory-Boyer Year End Construction Report 2016
• Ivory-Boyer Third Quarter Report 2016
• Ivory-Boyer Second Quarter Report 2016
• Ivory-Boyer First Quarter Report 2016

2015

• Ivory-Boyer Year-End Construction Report 2015
• Ivory-Boyer Third Quarter Report 2015
• Ivory-Boyer Second Quarter Report 2015