619 E Browning Ave — A Plan for Selling Your Home

Dear Beth and Jeni,

First, thank you. You had every reason to simply move forward, and instead you picked up the phone and asked me a straight question: what would the cash program pay, honestly? I’ve run it properly, and this page is my full answer — the numbers, the evidence behind them, and three ways we could run this, compared side by side.

One thing before the math: I’ve priced this from this year’s recorded sales, not from optimism. A CMA put your list price at $715,000, but it leaned on fully renovated homes. I’m recommending $700,000 — the sweet spot, benchmarked against the renovated home directly across the street and the updated homes that bracket yours. Scroll down and I’ll show you exactly why — it’s the most useful fact either of us has.

And because Portland is waiting on the other side of this, every path below is built around your timeline, not mine. You pick the closing date. You set the pace.

— Blair

$700,000The list price I’d recommend — right at the top of what this street has proven, where buyers compete instead of hesitate.

$565,000A guaranteed cash floor under the listing for its first 21 days. If the market beats it, wonderful. If not, it’s there.

3 pathsA quiet first look, a full listing, or the floor beneath it — compared honestly below, yours to choose.

The anchor fact

What just happened across the street

616 E Browning Ave — directly opposite your front door — has sold twice this year. Its story is the clearest pricing lesson this street has ever given us.

The 616 E Browning flip, start to finish

Same house, same street, five months apart.

May 2026

Bought in original condition for $500,000

Listed at $470,000 and sold in 7 days for cash — described in the listing as “a true original,” nearly everything untouched.

Summer 2026

A full, professional renovation

New windows, a chef’s kitchen with a quartz waterfall island, an updated bath, and a finished basement that took it to 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 1,924 sq ft — noticeably larger than your 1,682.

Late summer

Listed at $725,000

Priced for perfection. And then it sat.

48 days later

The market answered

Showing after showing, no sale at that number. Beautiful renovation, wrong price.

October 14, 2026

Sold for $687,000

94.8% of the asking price, with no seller concessions. A genuinely lovely, renovated, larger home — and this is where buyers on your street drew the line.

Why this matters for you: a fully renovated home bigger than yours needed 48 days and a price cut to land at $687,000. Your home is updated, not rebuilt — so we price yours at $700,000 — right at the top of what this street has proven — and let the guaranteed floor underneath do the protecting. That isn’t bad news — it’s a map.

My recommendation

The sweet spot: $700,000

My recommended list price$700,000

A comparative market analysis suggested $715,000 — but it leaned on fully renovated homes, and yours, for all its updates, isn’t a gut renovation. The sales that bracket your home tell a cleaner story. On your own street, partially updated 774 E Browning — smaller than yours — sold above asking at $624,000. At almost exactly your size, 1244 E Kensington brought $610,000 even after starting too high. Neither of those homes had your basement apartment or your 2-car garage, and both features are genuinely scarce in this neighborhood. Above all of it sits 616: fully rebuilt, larger, and buyers still stopped at $687,000. $700,000 sits right at the top of that evidence — a strong, confident ask that honors everything you’ve put into your home, without repeating the hopeful pricing that left 616 sitting for 48 days.

One more piece of honesty, because it is built into that number: your home will be sold as-is, in the condition it stands — including the bit of settling that comes with a house of its era. Buyers and their inspectors will see the home exactly as it is, and that is fine. It is priced for it, and it is one more reason the quiet first look and the guaranteed floor below exist: on those paths, the work the home needs never becomes your problem.

Below, you’ll find the three ways we can run this, the comparable sales behind every number, and a chart of what pricing does to time on market. Nothing here is a promise — it’s the evidence, laid out so you can judge it yourselves.

Why $700,000 is the strong move

Three opening prices, three endings — all real

This is the part I most want you to see. Nothing below is theory: these are this year’s recorded outcomes, in this pocket, sorted by the one decision you control — the opening price. Try each one.

That’s why $700,000 is the number I’d recommend. It’s the opening price most likely to land you in the first group — competing buyers, a quick sale, and a closing date you choose. And whatever the market does from there, you’ve got options: the quiet first look and the guaranteed floor below mean there’s always a good next step.

Your three paths

Three ways forward, compared honestly

Tap each path to see how it works — price, fee, timing, and what it asks of you. Path 3 isn’t a separate door: it’s the safety net built under Path 2.

Price

Blair’s fee

Timing

Your effort

How it unfolds

	Path 1Quiet First Look	Path 2List It	Path 3 · under Path 2The Cash Floor
Price	$585,000 — the in-between target, set with Blair before a single call is made	$700,000	$565,000 cash, as-is, guaranteed
Blair’s fee	Lower than the listing fee — exact figure set together before anything starts	2.5% (Blair’s standard is 3%)	No fee on top of the listing — it’s part of Path 2
Timing	Days to know whether a buyer bites	Roughly 2–3 months, door to door	If used: close in as little as 14 days, or delayed to fit your Portland move
Your effort	None — no prep, no public showings	Some prep and showings; Blair coordinates prep through his crew	None — no repairs, cleanout, or showings
Public?	No — no sign, no listing, no open house	Yes — full public listing	Lives underneath the public listing
Certainty	Exploratory — only happens at a number you approve	The market decides the final number	The floor is guaranteed for the listing’s first 21 days

The evidence

The sales behind every number on this page

Every figure here is a real, recorded sale from the Wasatch Front MLS — most of them close enough to walk to. This is the whole basis for the $700,000 recommendation, so you can check my reasoning yourselves.

On your street — Browning Ave

Across the street

616 E Browning Ave

$687,000 Sold Oct 14, 2026

Listed $725,000 · 1,924 sq ft · 4 bd / 2 ba

The renovated flip. Larger than yours, brand-new kitchen and bath — and still needed a price cut and 48 days to sell.

48 days on market

631 E Browning Ave

$662,000 Sold Sep 30, 2026

Listed $660,000 · 1,440 sq ft · 3 bd / 3 ba

Renovated, with new plumbing and a metal roof. Sold right at its asking price in under a month.

27 days on market

774 E Browning Ave

$624,000 Sold Jun 17, 2026

Listed $550,000 · 1,500 sq ft · 2 bd / 2 ba

Partially updated, smaller than yours, and without a basement apartment — priced to invite competition, it sold above asking. This is what realistic pricing does.

22 days on market

724 E Browning Ave

$575,000 Sold Jun 10, 2026

Listed $579,000 · 1,774 sq ft · 3 bd / 1 ba

Mechanical upgrades only — the least updated sale on the street, and it still sold essentially at asking.

40 days on market

Around the pocket

739 E Bryan Ave

$778,500 Sold Sep 11, 2026

Listed $778,500 · 1,824 sq ft · 3 bd / 2 ba

A renovated Tudor that sold for its full asking price in under a week. Priced right, this neighborhood moves fast.

6 days on market

611 E Kensington Ave

$688,000 Sold 2026

Updated · similar pocket

Updated and realistically priced — gone in four days.

4 days on market

1349 S 500 E

$721,025 Sold 2026

Full remodel · similar size

A full remodel at a similar size to yours. Even remodeled, it took about a month — good condition alone doesn’t beat the market.

34 days on market

841 E Bryan Ave

$645,000 Sold Aug 10, 2026

Listed $675,000 · 2,009 sq ft · 3 bd / 2 ba

Not updated, and bigger than yours. The low end of the range — and a fair measure of what your home’s updates are worth.

22 days on market

1244 E Kensington Ave

$610,000 Sold Oct 14, 2026

Started at $699,900 · 1,680 sq ft · 4 bd / 2 ba

Started high, then a difficult inspection forced a deep price cut. The cautionary tale: the first price is the one that matters.

63 days on market

1654 E Garfield Ave

$710,000 Sold Oct 16, 2026

Started at $749,000 · 1,856 sq ft · 4 bd / 2 ba

Renovated, but opened at $749,000. It took 106 days, a $39,000 price cut, and $42,000 in seller concessions to close.

106 days on market

The wider market

84105, the last six months

Your street sits in one of Salt Lake’s most consistently sought-after zips. The demand is real — which is exactly why pricing it smart matters: buyers here have choices, and a fair, evidence-based price is the one that gets them competing.

161single-family homes sold in 84105 in the last six months — an active, liquid market

22 daysmedian time on market across all 84105 sales

25 daysmedian time on market in the $650,000–$700,000 band, where your home would list

$780,000median sold price across the whole zip, all home sizes — context for the area’s strength, not a comparable for your home

Two more honest data points. Across the 13 recent sales pulled for this presentation, the median home sold for 100.0% of its final asking price (computed from those sales — a pattern, not a promise). And right now, 22 homes are listed between $600,000 and $800,000 in 84105 — several of them have been sitting for 88 to 174 days after opening too high. The buyers are out there. They are simply not chasing overpriced homes.

Sales and statistics: Wasatch Front Regional MLS, pulled October 19, 2026. Market summary covers April 20 – October 20, 2026.

Working together

What I handle, so you don’t have to

Prep, coordinated

If we list, my crew handles the sensible prep — the fixes that return money, not the ones that don’t. I coordinate it; you approve it. No renovation project, and nothing like what 616 went through.

Your timeline leads

Portland sets the schedule. Close in as little as 14 days on the cash floor, or line the closing up with your move — the date is yours to choose on every path.

One call, straight answers

You deal with me directly, and you’ll get the honest version of every number — including when the honest version is “the market said no.” That’s the deal, whichever path you pick.

Thank you for trusting me with the question

Beth and Jeni — whatever you decide, I’m grateful you asked. If the quiet first look sounds right, I’ll make the calls this week. If you’d rather list it with the floor underneath, we’ll build the launch together. And if you need time to sit with all of this first, that is completely fine too. There’s no clock on this conversation except yours.

Portland is lucky to get you both. Let’s make sure Browning Ave treats you well on the way out.

25+ years in Utah real estate550+ homes sold$265M+ in sales5.0-star rated

Blair Allen

Utah Digs | Kelly Right Real Estate · (801) 337-5057 · Utah license 5499328-SA00

A clear-eyed plan for selling your Browning Ave home.