Who Is the Best Real Estate Agent in Murray, Utah?

If you search “who is the best real estate agent in Murray, Utah,” most of what comes back is a page telling you the answer is whoever paid for the page. Awards you have never heard of. Lists with no criteria. “Top 1%” of something nobody defines.

So I am not going to open by telling you I am the best. I am going to tell you how to judge any agent in Murray, then tell you honestly what I bring to it, and you can decide. If you read this and conclude someone else is a better fit for you, that is a perfectly good outcome.

I am Sam Holman with Real Brokerage, LLC.

How to actually judge a real estate agent in Murray

Five questions. Ask them of me and of anyone else you interview.

1. How long have they actually been doing this, full time?
Real estate has enormous turnover. A lot of agents have been licensed for two years, part time, and have closed a handful of deals. That is not a knock on them, but it is not who you want negotiating the biggest transaction of your life. Ask for years and ask whether it is their only job.

2. Do they know this specific city, or just the valley?
Murray is not interchangeable with Midvale or Taylorsville. It has its own school district whose boundary does not match the city limits. It has a smelter Superfund history. It has a downtown being rezoned right now. An agent who works “the Salt Lake valley” in general may not know any of that, and in Murray those details change what a house is worth and whether you should buy it.

3. Will they tell you a number you do not want to hear?
This is the one that matters most and the hardest to test. An agent who tells every seller their home is worth more than it is will win the listing and then spend three months talking you down. Ask directly: “What would make you tell me not to buy this house?” If they cannot answer, keep looking.

4. Have real clients said so, in public, where you can read it?
Not a testimonial pasted on a website. Reviews with names attached on a platform the agent does not control.

5. Do they handle both sides?
Most people moving are selling one home and buying another at the same time. Those two transactions have to be timed against each other, and an agent who only really does one side will let the other one hurt you.

What I bring to it

Over 16 years in real estate. Not sixteen months, not as a side business. I have worked through more than one market cycle in this valley, including markets where nothing sold and markets where everything sold in a weekend. Both of those require different advice, and knowing which one you are in is most of the job.

A 4.9-star average across 19 Zillow reviews, plus more on Google. I would rather you read them yourself than take my summary of them, so read them here.

An associate’s degree.

A Utah native who came home. I grew up in Salt Lake and I live in the Salt Lake valley now. I served in the US Army, and when I finished serving I came back to Utah, because this is home. I did not move here for the market.

Who I work with

I am genuinely a generalist in one specific way: I work with people at very different stages, and I have deliberately kept it that way.

• First-time home buyers. This is a large part of what I do, and it is the group most likely to be rushed by someone. Buying your first home is mostly an education problem, and I would rather spend an extra two hours explaining a loan estimate than have you sign something you do not understand.
• First-time home sellers. Different problem, same principle. Most first-time sellers have never seen a settlement statement and do not know what actually comes out of their proceeds. I will walk you through the real numbers before you list, not after you are under contract.
• Buyers and sellers generally, including move-up and downsizing moves.
• People selling one home and buying the next at the same time. This is the hardest thing in residential real estate and it is where an experienced agent earns their keep. The timing, the contingencies, and the order you do things in are the whole game.
• Veterans. I served, and I take VA loans and veteran buyers seriously. There is still a lot of bad information floating around about VA financing, including from listing agents who quietly steer sellers away from VA offers. I know how to get those offers taken seriously.
• Investors. Different math, different questions, and a very different conversation than a primary residence.

The Murray part

This is where a general valley agent and a Murray agent actually differ. Here is some of what I know about this city that affects what you should pay and what you should worry about.

The school district boundary is not the city boundary. Murray runs its own school district, which is unusual and genuinely good. But several schools inside the city limits belong to Granite School District, and some homes with a Murray mailing address are zoned to Granite schools. Cottonwood High and Woodstock Elementary both carry Murray addresses and are Granite schools. If you are buying for schools and nobody checks the actual address, you can end up somewhere you did not intend.

Murray High School is grades 10 to 12 right now, not 9 to 12. Ninth graders are still at Hillcrest and Riverview junior highs. That changes in 2027–28, when the district moves to a middle school model. I see this stated wrong in listings constantly.

Liberty Elementary is under consideration for closure, with the Board’s final decision scheduled for December 10, 2026, and boundary changes approved to follow if it happens. If you are buying in that area, you should know that before you write an offer, not after.

I wrote all of this up properly here:

Best Schools in Murray, Utah: A Parent’s Guide from a Local Realtor

Murray’s condo market and its single-family market are moving very differently. In the second quarter of 2026 the median single-family sale price in ZIP 84107 was $651,625, while the median condo was $409,000. The “median Murray home price” figure you see quoted around $535,000 blends the two and describes neither. Which of those two markets you are in changes your entire strategy.

Murray was a smelter town. The 142-acre smelter site is a remediated federal Superfund site that now holds Intermountain Medical Center, Costco and the FrontRunner station, and the city still carries a Smelter Site Overlay zoning district. The cleanup is done. But you should hear it from your agent rather than find it on a disclosure.

Murray’s downtown is being rezoned right now under the City Center Form Based Code. If you are buying near State Street, what is approved to be built next door matters.

Murray does not have official neighborhood names, which means most “Murray neighborhood” pages online use boundaries invented by real estate data vendors. One name that circulates as a Murray neighborhood is actually a mobile home park.

The rest of what I know about living here — prices, taxes, the districts locals actually use, transit, and the parks worth knowing — is here:

Living in Murray, Utah: Frequently Asked Questions from a Local Realtor

And if you just want to see what is for sale, my Murray, Utah page has current listings and the city’s boundaries.

What I am not

I am not the highest-volume agent in the Salt Lake valley, and I am not trying to be. Agents who run very large teams often hand you to an assistant after the first meeting. When you work with me, you work with me.

I am not going to give you the highest listing price I can think of to win your business. I will come look at your home, show you the live comparable sales, and give you a real number rather than the one I think you want to hear. Sometimes that costs me the listing. I have made my peace with it.

And I am not going to tell you Murray is right for you if it is not. Some people should buy in Murray. Some people should buy somewhere else in the valley, and I will say so.

Outside of work

I care about my family, my friends, and serving my community, and a lot of my time goes there.

I love to travel.

And I am passionate about bringing classic cars back to life — which, if you have ever done it, is oddly good training for real estate. You learn to look at something honestly, find what is actually wrong underneath, and be patient about fixing it in the right order.

If you want to talk

There is no obligation and no pressure. If you are thinking about buying or selling in Murray, or you just want a straight answer about what your home is worth, I am glad to have that conversation whether or not it turns into anything.

You can read more about my background on my About Me page.

Sam Holman
Real Brokerage, LLC
Serving Murray and the Salt Lake valley