Home sales along Wasatch Front close in on a record year

Homes sales along the Wasatch Front have wiped away any losses from COVID-19 and are now on a record-breaking trajectory for 2020.The Salt Lake Board of Realtors reported Friday third-quarter sales over the five-county area were 13% above the same months last year, after historically low interest rates and a pandemic-spurred exodus to the suburbs lifted housing markets out of an April and May slowdown.Sales also are now up 4% for the first nine months of 2020 compared to 2019, with 31,822 homes