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

2020

• What’s Keeping Utah’s Real Estate Market Hot in the Time of COVID?
• Survey of Utah’s Top Homebuilders

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

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