The pandemic has supercharged the housing market across the nation, driven by historically low interest rates and low unemployment rates, with Utah leading the way. The state continues to reap the benefits of a solid recovery and Utah’s real estate market is expected to shatter records in 2021.

In this episode of Altabanking, a business podcast geared toward elevating your financial future, Altabank’s Stan Sorensen sits down with Ben Pack, President of Altabank’s mortgage division to discuss real estate and Utah’s housing market, from home buying, home selling, and everything in between. Pack shares shares his outlook on Utah’s current real estate climate, inflation and how to think strategically to gain an edge in this red-hot seller’s market.

In this second episode of Altabanking, a business podcast geared toward elevating your financial future, Altabank’s Stan Sorensen sits down with Ryan Jones, executive vice president and chief lending officer at Altabank to discuss all things commercial real estate, from construction, to labor and inflation, to lending and everything between.

In this inaugural episode of Altabanking, a business podcast geared toward elevating your financial future, Altabank’s Stan Sorensen sits down with Natalie Gochnour, director of the Kem C. Gardner Institute at the University of Utah and member of the Altabank Board of Directors, to discuss the outlook of Utah’s Economy in 2021.

Gochnour shares highlights from the 2021 Economic Report to the Governor, as well as Governor Cox’s One Utah Roadmap. She takes with us her perspective on various hot topics such as travel and tourism, the housing shortage, education, employment and more.