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

If you search that question, you will get a list of agents who paid to be on it. That is worth knowing before you read any further — including reading this, which is written by an agent.

So let me do something more useful than claiming the title. I am going to tell you how I would judge a Clinton agent if I were hiring one, then lay out my own record against that standard, including the two parts that do not flatter me. You can decide.

I am Julie Burningham, a Realtor with Equity Real Estate, license number 14265491.

How should you actually choose an agent in Clinton?

Four things matter more than anything a ranking site measures.

1. Do they actually know how this city is split? Clinton is the hardest city in north Davis County to guess at. It has no junior high and no high school inside its own limits, and its addresses divide three ways at both levels — West Point, Sunset or North Davis for junior high, and Clearfield, Syracuse or Northridge for high school. Ask a specific question: which schools does this address feed, and how did you check? An agent who answers from a listing portal will get it wrong, because those fields are frequently wrong.

2. Will they tell you no? The agent who agrees with everything you say is not helping you. You want someone who will say your list price is wrong, or that the house you love has a problem, or that Clinton is not actually the right city for what you are trying to do.

3. Do they handle both sides? Most people selling are also buying. An agent who only does one leaves you managing the hardest part yourself — the timing between the two.

4. Are they going to be here afterward? Real estate has a lot of people passing through. The question is not how many homes someone sold last year, but whether they will pick up the phone in three years when you need a contractor recommendation.

What I bring to Clinton

Here are my actual credentials. There is no awards section, because I do not have awards to list, and I would rather leave a gap than manufacture one.

Two honest things before anything else

On not living in Clinton

Plenty of agents will imply they live in whatever city you are searching. I am not going to. I have lived in Davis County for 21 years and owned a home since 2001, but that home is in Centerville, about half an hour south of Clinton.

What I would ask you to weigh instead is whether an agent has done the work on your city, because that is checkable and "I live here" is not. Four of my children went through Davis School District — the same district that runs every public school serving Clinton, with the same boundary process, the same open enrollment windows and the same February registration scramble. That experience transfers to Clinton in a way it would not transfer to a different county.

And then there is the work itself, which is at the bottom of this page. I researched and wrote two long guides to Clinton — every school with grade levels and addresses checked against each school's own website, every one of the city's eleven parks with what is in it, current prices against Syracuse, West Point, Layton and Sunset, and a straight explanation of the three-way school split. Judge that against what another agent has published about Clinton.

On being licensed since January 2026

If what you want is an agent with a thousand closings behind them, that is a completely reasonable thing to want, and I am not that person. Here is the case for me anyway.

A newer agent has fewer clients. That cuts both ways — less transaction experience, and also you are not client number forty this month. You get me on the phone.

I am also not doing this alone. My power team — the lenders, inspectors and contractors described below, most of whom I hired for my own renovation — means the experience is in the room when a deal needs it. Equity Real Estate is a large Utah brokerage with the infrastructure behind it.

And my whole professional history is about explaining things to people who are new to them. Six years teaching in an elementary classroom and ten years coaching — sixteen years of taking something a person finds confusing and making it make sense. That is most of what a good agent actually does: translate a high-stakes process into decisions you understand well enough to make yourself.

If that trade-off is not the right one for you, I would genuinely rather you hire someone else than hire me and be disappointed. Say so and I will tell you who else to call.

In 2024 and 2025 I was the general contractor on my own house

Not the homeowner who hired a contractor. The contractor.

I took my own home apart and put it back together — the deck, the bathrooms, and a full accessory dwelling unit in the basement, complete with its own kitchen and laundry. I lined up the trades, sequenced the work, and held the schedule.

That is not a decorating story. Running a build means knowing what has to happen and in what order, getting people to show up when they said they would, catching the thing that is about to be done wrong before it is finished, and hitting deadlines. Do it wrong and you pay for it twice. A closing is a construction schedule with different subcontractors — lender, inspector, appraiser, title, the other agent — and someone has to hold the dates and chase the thing that is quietly slipping.

It also means I can walk a house with you and tell you what a renovation will actually cost and how long it will actually take. That matters more in Clinton than in most cities around here, because so much of the housing stock is brick ramblers and two-stories from the mid 1990s through the late 2000s. Those homes are now at the age where kitchens, roofs and basements come due. When a seller tells you "the basement is ready to finish," I know whether that is true.

My power team is not a referral list

Most agents hand you a list of vendors. Some of those names are there because the vendor pays for the placement. The agent may never have watched any of them work.

My Real Estate Power Team of Specialists includes many of the same people who worked on my own house. Lenders, inspectors, contractors, photographers. I know them personally. I have stood in my own basement and watched the quality of what they do, and I have seen how they behave when something goes wrong — which is the part you cannot learn from a business card.

So when I recommend a contractor to you, I am not passing along a name. I am telling you that I hired that person with my own money, in my own home, and I would do it again. When something goes sideways two days before closing — and sometimes it does — that team is what saves the deal.

I taught in an elementary classroom before I sold real estate

I spent six years as an elementary music teacher. It is the reason the school section of my work is not copied off a ratings site — I know what the inside of these buildings feels like, and I know which questions get past the front-desk script.

I have also been a life coach for ten years, which turns out to be more relevant to this job than it sounds. Selling a house is usually attached to something else: a divorce, a new baby, a parent who cannot manage stairs anymore, a job that moved, or a transfer to Hill Air Force Base. The transaction is rarely the actual thing, and an agent who does not notice that will steer you badly.

Education and licensing

That property management license matters more than it sounds, and it matters particularly in Clinton. With Hill Air Force Base immediately east of the city, plenty of Clinton owners face the sell-or-rent question when they get orders. I can talk you through both sides honestly instead of steering you toward the one that pays me.

Community and memberships

• Soroptimist International — I serve in my community through it.
• Real Estate Power Team of Specialists — described above. The people who worked on my own house.
• National Association of Realtors, Utah Association of Realtors, and the Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors.

Outside work I am an avid hiker and a committed plant nerd and gardener. That is partly why the parks section of my Clinton guide names all eleven of them, and why I noticed that Clinton runs a community garden at City Gardens on 600 North.

What I specialize in

First-time home sellers. People who bought a starter home or a condo and are now moving up. It is a specific, stressful situation — you are selling and buying at once, the timing has to work, and most of the advice online is written for buyers. This is the work I do most, and in Clinton it is common, because so many people bought their first house here and outgrew it.

Growing families. Matching the right schools to the homes that are actually available near them. In a city split three ways for high school, this is where the local knowledge earns its keep.

Both sides of the transaction. For sellers: pricing strategy, preparing the home, professional marketing, and negotiation. For buyers: neighborhood comparisons, honest evaluation of individual homes, and writing an offer that holds up.

Property management questions, thanks to the license — including the sell-versus-rent conversation that comes up constantly near Hill AFB.

Judge the local knowledge for yourself

Rather than ask you to take my word for it, here is the work. Both of these I researched and verified myself, against the school district and the city rather than a portal:

• Best Schools in Clinton, Utah: A Parent's Guide — every public and charter school serving Clinton with grade levels and addresses, each linked to its own website, plus how Davis District boundaries and the boundary permit process actually work, and how to check a specific address.
• Living in Clinton, Utah: An Honest Guide from a Local Realtor — current home prices set against Syracuse, West Point, Layton and Sunset, the subdivisions by name with what is listed in each, the commute including the fact that the West Davis Highway has no Clinton exit, and all eleven city parks.
• Clinton, UT: the city page — current listings and the market at a glance.

If another agent's Clinton page is thinner than those, that tells you something.

Questions to ask any agent you interview, including me

1. Which junior high and high school does this specific Clinton address feed, and how did you verify it?
2. What is wrong with this house, or with my asking price?
3. Have you sold in this neighborhood, and what did you learn?
4. Who is on your team when something goes wrong at closing?
5. What would make you tell me not to buy this?

An agent who cannot answer number five is selling, not advising.

If you want to talk

I am not going to tell you I am the best real estate agent in Clinton. I will tell you that I have spent 21 years in Davis County, that I raised four children through the district that runs Clinton's schools, that I have done the research on this city and published it where you can check it, and that I will be straight with you even when it costs me the sale — starting with the two things at the top of this page that most agents would have left out.

If that is what you are looking for, get in touch. If you would like to know more about my background first, my full profile is here: About Julie Burningham.

Julie Burningham, Equity Real Estate
1851 North 200 East, Centerville, UT 84014
(801) 448-5275 · me@jburningham.com
Utah License 14265491