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Homes with an ADU or casita in Farr West.
Farr West 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 here 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 Farr West listings appear here as they list, and sold homes drop off. The read on what makes one legal is just below.
Buying here
Sort permitted from just finished.
A separate entrance and a second kitchen do not by themselves make a legal accessory unit here; that comes down to the parcel's zoning and whether the space was actually permitted. Tell me what setup you are after and I will have the Farr West-area partner agent I work with check the permit history and zoning on any home you flag before you tour.
Selling here
Own a Farr West home with a documented accessory unit?
Buyers browsing this page want a basement apartment, an attached suite, or a detached casita with the permit history to back it up. List it with the Farr West-area partner agent I connect you with and it goes in front of that exact 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 Farr West.
An accessory dwelling is a property feature, not a promise. On a Farr West 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 northern Wasatch Front for two honest reasons, flexible 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.
Farr West is good ground for this search, and it takes more than one form here. This is a cold-climate northern-Utah town on the valley floor at about 4,250 feet, so foundations go down and full basements are the regional norm rather than the exception, which makes the basement apartment the most common shape. The market is dominated by the newer single-family subdivisions built on former farm parcels, the wave of growth that has roughly quadrupled the city since its 1980 incorporation, and that newer stock is where a full basement finished as a separate lower-level suite most often turns up. The older homes on the historic farm grid around the 2700 North and 1900 West vicinity can carry a deep finished basement too, and on a lot with any slope a daylight or walkout lower level can live like its own floor. What sets a larger-lot town like this apart from a built-out city is room outside the main house: on the acreage and rural-residential edges a detached casita has the space to sit, so here it is a real possibility rather than a rarity.
Here is the part that matters more than the photos. 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. That is not a reason to walk away, but it is the reason to verify rather than assume. Two questions decide everything: whether the unit is permitted with Farr West City and whether it has its own legal egress, meaning a code-sized window well or door out of every sleeping room below grade. What an accessory dwelling is allowed to be on a given property depends on that parcel's zoning, so the answer is property-specific, not citywide.
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 newer larger floor plans are the natural hunting ground, so the single-story page and the two-story page are useful next stops. If you only want the extra square footage and not a second kitchen, the homes with a basement page is the wider search, and because a separate entrance or a detached casita is easier on a bigger lot with no shared-amenity rules over it, the no-HOA page pairs naturally with this one. Earlier in the process than show me listings? Start with the Farr West 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 Farr West most of these are basement apartments, since full basements are the regional norm, but the larger lots here give a detached casita real room to sit and attached mother-in-law suites turn up too, so read the listing for where the space actually is.
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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.
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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 Farr West, but the forms concentrate in a few patterns, and the basement apartment is by far the dominant one, with room on the larger lots for a detached casita. Here is where to look, and the due-diligence note attached to each.
The newer subdivision streets
The wave of newer single-family subdivisions built on former farm parcels is the heart of this search. These homes build full basements on city services, and the larger newer floor plans are the most likely place to find a lower level finished as separate living space. A newer build is also more likely to have been finished with permits, which makes the paperwork cleaner, but you still confirm the unit's status and the egress rather than assume.
The historic farm grid
The original agricultural community on the numbered-street grid around 2700 North and 1900 West holds the oldest housing in town on larger legacy parcels. An older home here can carry a deep finished basement with room for a separate suite, and it is also the most likely place to find one that was finished without a permit, so it is the area where verification matters most. Confirm the water and sewer setup on these older parcels too.
Daylight and walkout lower levels
Most of Farr West is flat former farm ground, but where a lot picks up any slope a lower level can open to grade with full windows and a real door, which is the ideal setup for a separate suite that lives like its own floor rather than a dark basement. These are less common on the valley floor and worth watching for, since natural light and a grade-level entrance do a lot of the work.
Larger floor plans on bigger lots
The bigger homes, more common on the newer streets and the larger established lots, often have the deepest and tallest basements, which makes a comfortable second kitchen and a real bedroom downstairs more workable than in a low older basement. Bigger lots are also where a detached casita has room to sit, so if a separate structure is the goal, that is the lot to look for. Stand in the space and check the ceiling height before you count on it.
Acreage and farm-country edges
Out on the larger-lot rural-residential edges, acreage homes sometimes carry a separate lower-level living space, and a big parcel is the one place a detached casita has room to stand apart from the house. Here the water and sewer questions stack on top of the accessory-unit questions, since many edge homes draw culinary water from Bona Vista plus a separate secondary account, and some sit on septic until a Central Weber sewer main reaches them. Verify what serves the parcel and what conveys alongside the unit's legal status. The acreage page goes deeper on that.
Toward Plain City, Harrisville, and the Ogden edges
Farr West sits on the north end of the Ogden metro and blends into Plain City to the west, Harrisville to the east, and Ogden to the southeast, and the same newer-and-older mix carries across those edges. Wherever the listing actually sits, the legality test is identical: confirm the unit is permitted with the right city for that parcel, and confirm the egress on every bedroom below grade.
Before you tour: what to actually check
Is it permitted: ask the listing agent for the permit history and confirm the unit's status and zoning with Farr West City. A second kitchen and a side door do not make a unit legal on their own, and what is allowed depends on the parcel.
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.
Separate systems: check whether the kitchen, HVAC, and any meter are genuinely separate, and whether the wiring and gas work for the second kitchen were done to code and inspected.
Ceiling height and light: an older basement can be low. Stand in it. Tall, daylight, or walkout lower levels live very differently from a short, fully below-grade basement.
Water, sewer, and the rest: in the subdivisions confirm the Bona Vista culinary bill and any separate secondary-water account, and on any acreage or edge home check the septic and what conveys, then on any older home date the roof, furnace, electrical panel, and sewer lateral.
Want a real accessory dwelling without the guesswork?
Tell me your budget, the part of Farr West you like, whether you want a basement apartment, an attached mother-in-law 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 Farr-West-area partner agent for the on-the-ground work and stay on the file for the homework and the financing. You get a local who knows the streets and a second set of eyes who answers to you, with straight answers about which spaces are legal units and which are just finished basements with a door.
Selling a Farr West home with a basement apartment, a casita, or an attached accessory suite? The buyers reading this page want exactly that. List it with the Farr-West-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 Farr West the most common form 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, which the larger lots here have the room for, 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 Farr West City and what the specific parcel's zoning allows.
Some are and some are not, which is exactly why you verify rather than assume. An accessory dwelling has to be permitted with Farr West City to be treated as a separate dwelling, what is allowed depends on the parcel's zoning, and many existing basement apartments and converted suites in older homes were finished over the years without permits or were built before today's rules, so they are non-conforming. That is not a dealbreaker by itself, but you need to know which one you are buying. Confirm the zoning, the permit history, the unit's status, and the egress independently before you rely on it, and I will help line up those checks.
Most often in the newer single-family subdivisions built on former farm ground, which dominate the market here and build full basements that are sometimes finished as separate living space. The older homes on the historic farm grid around 2700 North and 1900 West sit over some of the town's deepest basements, a walkout or daylight lot can make the lower level live like its own floor, and the larger acreage lots on the rural edges have the room a detached casita needs. 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 dwelling is a different thing from a non-conforming space that happens to have a kitchen, the rules around accessory dwellings and rentals can change, and what is allowed depends on the parcel's zoning, so this is a question to confirm with Farr West City 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 allows.
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. We check the actual window wells, not just the photos.
Tell me the budget, the part of town, and whether you need a fully permitted suite or are open to an existing space to verify, and I will connect you with a Farr-West-area partner agent and flag matching listings as they go live. Pair that with a conversation about your plan so you are ready to move when the right separate-suite home lists, since these are a narrow slice in a smaller market and they do not sit long.