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Homes with an ADU or casita in Draper.
Draper listings with an accessory dwelling unit, whether that is a basement apartment, a detached casita, or an attached mother-in-law suite, fed straight from the MLS and sorted newest first, with a clear read on what makes one legal in a two-county city and what to verify before you write an offer.
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The newest ADU and casita listings.
Fed straight from the local MLS and filtered to homes that note an accessory dwelling unit, whether that is a basement apartment, a detached casita, or an attached mother-in-law suite. New Draper listings appear here as they list, and sold homes drop off. The read on what makes one legal is just below.
No ADU or casita listings to show right now. In Draper an accessory unit is almost always a basement apartment carved out of the historic core or bench stock rather than a detached casita, and because the city sits in two counties, what counts as legal can differ depending on which side of the line the parcel falls on. Open the map search to run this filter live, or browse every Draper listing. Prefer a shortlist? Tell me what you are after.
Buying here
Confirm the county and the permit first.
A second kitchen and a private entrance do not make a unit legal on their own, and Draper's Salt Lake County and Utah County sides can treat an accessory unit differently. Tell me what setup you need and I will have the Draper-area partner agent I work with pull the county and permit history on any home you flag.
Selling here
Own a Draper home with a documented accessory unit?
Buyers on this page want a basement apartment, an attached suite, or a casita with the paperwork and the correct county behind it. List it with the Draper-area partner agent I connect you with and it goes in front of exactly that search.
Listing information comes from the local MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
The local read
What an accessory dwelling really means in Draper.
An accessory dwelling is a property feature, not a promise. On a Draper listing it means a secondary living space that can function on its own: a second kitchen, its own bathroom, a separate exterior entrance, and sometimes a separate utility meter. The words move around. A basement apartment is a lower level built out that way, a casita is usually a detached unit set apart from the house, and a mother-in-law suite is usually an attached apartment on the main or upper floor. The search shows up across the Wasatch Front for two honest reasons, multigenerational living under one roof and a rentable suite where the unit is legal, and both turn on the same homework, which is whether the space is actually permitted on that specific parcel.
Draper is good ground for this search, and the form it takes here is most often the basement apartment. Basements are the regional norm, and the older historic core around 12400 South, along with the broad 1990s-to-2010s single-family belt across the east bench and South Mountain, carries a deep stock of finished basements that already double the living space. Adding a second kitchen and a private entrance to that kind of full basement is exactly the conversion most of these listings describe. There is a Draper bonus, too: the bench and the ridge fall away on a slope, so walkout and daylight lower levels are natural up there, and a level that opens to grade with full windows and its own door lives like its own floor rather than a dark basement. An attached mother-in-law suite turns up in the larger two-story homes, and a fully detached casita is the rarest shape, since it takes a lot with room for a second structure, so treat one as a find rather than an expectation.
Here is the part that matters more than the photos, and Draper adds a wrinkle most cities do not have. A finished basement is not the same as a legal apartment, and neither is a converted room over the garage or a guest building out back. A second kitchen and an outside door do not make a unit conforming on their own, and a great many existing accessory units in older Utah housing were finished over the years without permits or were built before today's rules. On top of that, Draper is a two-county city: most of it sits in Salt Lake County, but the city crosses the line onto Traverse Ridge and SunCrest into Utah County, and what an accessory unit is allowed to be can differ by which county and zoning the parcel falls under. That is not a reason to walk away, but it is the reason to verify rather than assume. The questions that decide everything are whether the unit is permitted with the correct jurisdiction, what the parcel's zoning allows, and whether every below-grade sleeping room has its own legal egress, meaning a code-sized window well or door out.
Treat any income angle with the same caution. I will not quote you a rent number or a payment number on a page like this, because what a unit could earn depends on its legal status, the specific space, and rules that change, and a non-conforming unit cannot be counted on at all. What I can do is point you at the right stock. If a true separate suite is the goal, the older-core and bench ramblers are the natural hunting ground, so the single-story page and the no-HOA page are useful next stops, and the bigger two-story floor plans on the two-story page sometimes carry the deepest lower levels. If you only want the extra square footage and not a second kitchen, the homes with a basement page is the wider search. Earlier in the process than show me listings? Start with the Draper guide, and when a home below reads right, that is the moment to reach out.
What counts as an accessory dwelling
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The form it takes: in Draper most of these are basement apartments, since full basements are the norm in this stock. Attached mother-in-law suites turn up too, and a detached casita is rare, so read the listing for where the space actually sits.
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Second kitchen: a full or kitchenette setup is the core marker. A finished basement or a spare suite with no kitchen is just extra space, not a separate unit, so read the listing for the actual layout.
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Separate entrance: the second front door this search is really about. A private exterior entry, often a walk-down or a side door, is what makes the space usable on its own rather than a through-the-house extension. On a bench or ridge lot it is frequently a true grade-level walkout.
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Separate egress: every sleeping room below grade needs a code-sized window well or a door to the outside. This is a safety item and a legality item at once, and it is the first thing to confirm in person.
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Separate utilities: some units have their own gas or electric meter, or at least split HVAC. It is a convenience, not proof of legality, so note it but do not read it as a permit.
The local map
Where the accessory units actually are.
Homes with a second living space turn up across Draper, but the forms concentrate in a few patterns, and the basement apartment is by far the dominant one. Here is where to look, and the due-diligence note attached to each.
The historic core around 12400 South
Old Draper, the heritage center between State Street and 1300 East near Draper Park, holds the city's oldest homes on mature lots. This is a likely place to find a real separate suite, and also a likely place to find one that was finished without a permit, so it is the area where verification matters most. It sits on the Salt Lake County side.
The east bench and South Mountain
The broad 1990s-to-2010s single-family belt climbing the east bench and the lower Traverse slopes has full basements in volume, some finished as separate living space, with younger systems than the historic core. The slope here means a lower level can open to grade as a walkout, which makes a comfortable second kitchen and a real bedroom downstairs far more livable.
Walkout and daylight lots on the slope
On the bench and toward the ridge, lots fall away, so a lower level can open to grade with full windows and a real door. That is the ideal setup for a separate suite that lives like its own floor rather than a dark basement, and it is more common in Draper than in the flat valley cities.
Larger detached and equestrian-strain lots
East Draper retains larger detached lots and a surviving equestrian strain on bigger parcels. The deeper, taller basements on these homes make a true separate unit more workable than a low older basement, and the room around the house is the only place a detached casita has space to sit in a city this built out, so if a separate structure is the goal, that is the lot to look for. Verify the zoning on the specific parcel.
The SunCrest and Traverse Ridge side: check the county
Up on the ridge, custom homes on falling-away lots often carry walkout lower levels that suit a separate suite. The catch is the county line: SunCrest and the Traverse Ridge parcels can sit in Utah County, where the accessory-unit rules and zoning may differ from the Salt Lake County side, so confirm the jurisdiction before you count on any unit.
The historic and older valley-floor subdivisions
Earlier valley-floor subdivisions, including split-entry floor plans, lend themselves to a lower level with its own grade-level or half-flight-down door, which is why so many conversions started in this kind of stock. Confirm the egress windows on the bedrooms below, since an older basement bedroom is not legal living space without them.
Before you tour: what to actually check
Which county, first: Draper crosses the Salt Lake and Utah county line, and the accessory-unit rules, zoning, and recorder differ by side. Confirm which county the parcel is in before anything else, especially on SunCrest and the Traverse Ridge slope.
Is it permitted: ask the listing agent for the permit history and confirm the unit's status with the correct jurisdiction. A second kitchen and a side door do not make a unit legal on their own.
Egress on every bedroom: each sleeping room below grade needs a code-sized egress window and well, or a door to the outside. Look at the actual window wells, not just the listing photos.
Conforming vs. existing: many older accessory units are non-conforming, finished before today's rules or without permits. Understand exactly what you are buying and what can and cannot be relied on.
Walkout vs. below-grade, and the systems: on a bench or ridge lot, see whether the lower level opens to grade with full windows or sits fully below, since it changes the light and the use entirely. Then check whether the kitchen, HVAC, and any meter are genuinely separate and were done to code and inspected.
Slope, drainage, and the rest: a hillside lot adds slope, drainage, and access to the list, and on any older-core home, date the roof, furnace, electrical panel, and sewer lateral while you are at it.
Want a real accessory dwelling without the guesswork?
Tell me your budget, the part of Draper you like, whether you want a basement apartment, an attached suite, or a detached casita, and whether you need a fully permitted, conforming unit or are open to an existing space you would verify and possibly bring up to code. I will connect you with a trusted Draper-area partner agent for the on-the-ground work and stay on the file for the homework and the financing, with straight answers about which spaces are legal units, which are just finished basements with a door, and which county the parcel falls under.
Selling a Draper home with a basement apartment, a casita, or an attached accessory suite? The buyers reading this page want exactly that. List it with the Draper-area partner agent I connect you with, and your home gets featured across MovingUtah, on the pages they are already reading.
Quick answers
ADU and casita shopping, answered.
It is a secondary living space that can function on its own, and the listings use several words for it. In Draper the most common form by far is a basement apartment, a lower level built out with a second kitchen, its own bathroom, and a separate exterior entrance. A casita usually means a detached unit set apart from the main house, and a mother-in-law suite usually means an attached accessory apartment on the main or upper level. All of them are property features describing the space, nothing more. The big thing to know is that a second kitchen and an outside door do not make a unit legal on their own, so the real work is confirming whether it is permitted and conforming with the correct jurisdiction, which in a two-county city like Draper means checking which county the parcel is in first.
Some are and some are not, which is exactly why you verify rather than assume. An accessory dwelling has to be permitted with the correct jurisdiction to be treated as a separate dwelling, and what is allowed depends on the parcel's zoning. Draper adds a wrinkle: most of the city is in Salt Lake County, but it crosses the line onto Traverse Ridge and SunCrest into Utah County, and the rules can differ by side. Many existing basement apartments and converted suites in older homes were also finished without permits or built before today's rules, so they are non-conforming. Confirm the county, the zoning, the permit history, and the egress independently before you rely on it, and I will help line up those checks.
Because Draper is one of the few Utah cities that lives in two counties at once. The valley floor and the bench sit in Salt Lake County, while the SunCrest community and the Traverse Ridge slope cross into Utah County. What an accessory unit is allowed to be, how it is permitted, and which recorder holds the record can differ between the two sides. So before you count on any accessory dwelling, the first step is simply confirming which county the parcel falls in, then verifying the rules that apply there.
Most often in the older historic core around 12400 South and across the 1990s-to-2010s single-family belt on the east bench and South Mountain, which sit over the city's deepest stock of finished basements and carry most of the basement apartments. Attached suites turn up in the larger two-story homes, and on the bench and ridge slope, where lots fall away, a lower level can open to grade as a walkout and live like its own floor. A fully detached casita is the rarest form here, since it takes a lot with room for a second structure. The live listings above are the honest count on any given week.
Only where the unit is legal, and that is the whole point of the verification. A permitted, conforming accessory unit is a different thing from a non-conforming space that happens to have a kitchen, and the rules around accessory dwellings and rentals can change and can differ between Draper's Salt Lake County and Utah County sides, so this is a question to confirm with the correct jurisdiction for the specific property, not to assume from the listing. I will not put a rent figure on a page like this, because it depends entirely on the unit's legal status and the specifics, but I can connect you with a local agent who will get you straight answers on what the city and county allow.
Egress is a legal, code-sized way out of every below-grade sleeping room, usually an egress window with a window well sized for a person to climb out, or a door to the outside. It is both a safety requirement and a piece of what makes a basement bedroom or apartment count as legal living space. It matters most on the basement units that make up most of this search, and it is the first thing to confirm in person, because a room marketed as a bedroom downstairs is not really one without it. On a Draper walkout lot the egress is often a real door, which helps, but you still verify it rather than assume from the photos.