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Homes with an ADU or casita in Murray.
Murray 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 Murray listings appear here as they list, and sold homes drop off. The read on what makes one legal is just below.
Buying here
Sort legal from existing before you tour.
The word that matters most here is permitted: a basement apartment or attached suite only counts as a true accessory unit if the separate entrance, kitchen, and utilities are legally recognized, not just built. Tell me what setup you need and I will have the Murray-area partner agent I work with pull the permit history on any home you flag.
Selling here
Own a Murray home with a documented accessory unit?
Buyers on this page want the basement apartment, the attached suite, or the detached casita with the paperwork to back it up. List it with the Murray-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 Murray.
An accessory dwelling is a property feature, not a promise. On a Murray 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 valley 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.
Murray is natural ground for this search because of the age of its housing, and the form it takes here is mostly the basement apartment. This is a built-out, central-valley city, and the bulk of the market is 1940s to 1970s mid-century brick, the ramblers and split-entries on mature streets near the Vine Street core and out the east side toward 900 East and the Holladay line. Full basements are the Wasatch Front norm and basement finishing is common on that older detached stock, so a large older home with a separate lower level is exactly the kind of conversion these listings describe. An attached mother-in-law suite turns up more often in the bigger two-story floor plans on that same east side. A fully detached casita is the rarest shape of all, because Murray is a built-out city that grows by infill rather than new ground, on a footprint of roughly twelve square miles, so a lot with room for a second structure is genuinely scarce. The newer attached product clustered at Fireclay and the rail stations is a different animal, mostly condos and townhomes rather than a house with a private accessory unit.
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 structure 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. The two questions that decide everything are whether the unit is permitted with Murray City and whether it has its own legal egress, meaning a code-sized window well or door out of every sleeping room. What an accessory dwelling is allowed to be on a given property depends on that parcel's zoning, so the answer is property by property, not a citywide rule of thumb.
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 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 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 Murray 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 Murray most of these are basement apartments, since full basements are the norm on the older detached stock. Attached mother-in-law suites turn up too, mostly on the bigger east-side floor plans, and a detached casita is rare in a built-out, infill city, 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.
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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 meter, or at least split HVAC. Murray bills power, water, sewer and garbage on one combined city account, so ask how a separate unit is metered. It is a convenience, not proof of legality.
The local map
Where the accessory units actually are.
Homes with a second living space turn up across Murray, but the forms concentrate in a few patterns, and the basement apartment is by far the dominant one, since this is a built-out, infill city where a fully detached casita needs a lot with room for a second structure, a genuine rarity here. Here is where to look, and the due-diligence note attached to each.
The Vine Street core
The civic heart around Murray Park and the old downtown blocks near State Street holds the city's oldest housing, mature brick on mature lots. Larger older homes here are the most likely to carry a built-out accessory unit, and also the most likely to have one finished without a permit, so this is the area where verification matters most.
The east side toward 900 East
The established 1950s-70s brick neighborhoods climbing east toward the Holladay line and Wheeler Historic Farm sit on bigger, quieter lots. Larger floor plans on this side give a basement room to become a real separate suite, and this is also the city's thin upper tier, so bigger lots here are the most likely place a detached casita has room to sit. Egress and permit history still to confirm either way.
Split-entry floor plans
The split-entry and split-level are a defining Murray form, and the layout lends itself to a lower level with its own grade-level door. The split design can put a private entrance just a half-flight down, which is why so many conversions started here. Confirm the egress windows on the bedrooms below.
The south end near Fashion Place
The mix around the mall and Fashion Place West runs from 1960s ramblers to newer townhome rows. The older ramblers down here can carry a finished lower level with separate-entry potential; the newer attached rows generally do not, so read the listing closely.
Daylight and walkout lots
Where a lot steps down, 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 Murray's flat valley-floor grid but worth watching for.
Near the rail stations
Murray has three in-city rail stations, and a home with a separate accessory unit within a walk of one pairs a flexible floor plan with a car-free commute option. Most station-adjacent stock is attached condos and townhomes rather than houses with a private accessory unit, so a detached home with a real suite near transit is a narrow but worthwhile target.
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 the parcel's zoning with Murray City. 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.
What the parcel's zoning allows: what an accessory dwelling is allowed to be is property-specific, not citywide, so confirm the zoning on the exact parcel with Murray City rather than assuming the rule from the home next door.
Attached, detached, or below grade: note which form you are actually looking at, because they live very differently, and 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.
Inspect the decades, not just the house: on any Vine Street core or east-side home, date the roof, furnace, electrical panel, and sewer lateral, confirm the second kitchen's wiring and gas were done to code, and on a specific older parcel ask about the area's smelter-era history as a records question, not an alarm.
Want a real accessory dwelling without the guesswork?
Tell me your budget, the part of Murray 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 Murray-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 and which are just finished basements with a door.
Selling a Murray home with a basement apartment, a casita, or an attached accessory suite? The buyers reading this page want exactly that. List it with the Murray-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 Murray 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 Murray 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 Murray 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 older mid-century core, the 1940s-to-1970s brick ramblers and split-entries near the Vine Street core and out the east side toward 900 East and the Holladay line, which carries the deepest stock of full basements and most of the basement apartments. Attached suites turn up in the bigger two-story floor plans on that same east side, and a fully detached casita is the rarest form of all, because Murray is a built-out, roughly twelve-square-mile city that grows by infill rather than new ground, so a lot with room for a second structure is genuinely scarce. 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 Murray 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 Murray-area partner agent and flag matching listings as they go live. Pair that with a pre-approval so you can move when the right separate-suite home lists, since these are a narrow slice in a built-out city and they do not sit long.