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Quick Answer: Not always – even when a resale home already has the finished basement and landscaping that usually tips the math toward resale. In Utah, an older floor plan and deferred maintenance the inspection hasn’t caught yet can erase that advantage fast, and a builder rate buydown can close most of what’s left of…
Quick Answer: Neither is automatically better in Utah. New construction’s real advantage is not price — it is that the incentive is knowable in advance, because you can research what a builder will do before you ever walk in. Resale can match or beat those terms, since many sellers will fund a rate buydown to…