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Homes with an ADU or casita in Pleasant Grove.
Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove listings appear here as they list, and sold homes drop off. The read on what makes one legal is just below.
Buying here
Confirm permitted before you count on it.
A second kitchen and a side door do not make an accessory dwelling legal on their own, so the real work is checking the permit history and the parcel's zoning with Pleasant Grove City. Tell me what setup you need, whether that is a basement apartment, an attached suite, or a detached casita, and I will have the Pleasant Grove-area partner agent I work with pull that history on any home you flag.
Selling here
Own a Pleasant Grove home with a documented accessory dwelling?
Buyers on this page want a secondary living space with the paperwork behind it, whether that is the permit history or the egress details, and whether it is a basement apartment, an attached suite, or a detached casita. List it with the Pleasant Grove-area partner agent I connect you with and put it 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 Pleasant Grove.
An accessory dwelling is a property feature, not a promise. On a Pleasant Grove 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 separate suite where the unit is legal, and both turn on the same homework, which is whether the space is actually permitted.
Pleasant Grove is good ground for this search, and the form it takes here is mostly the basement apartment. This is a cold-climate, sloped-bench market, so foundations go down and basements are the norm, and the east-bench stock in particular favors walkout and daylight basements where the lot steps down toward the valley. The older grid near Main Street and the 1970s-to-1990s bench neighborhoods below the Battle Creek and Grove Creek trailheads carry a deep stock of finished basements that already double the living space, and adding a second kitchen and a private entrance to that kind of full basement is exactly the conversion these listings describe. An attached mother-in-law suite turns up more in the bigger two-story floor plans through the central Grovecrest subdivisions, and a fully detached casita is the rarest shape here, 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. 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 Pleasant Grove homes were finished over the years without permits or were built before today's rules. Pleasant Grove is also a city where the boundary lines interleave with Lindon, Orem, American Fork, and Cedar Hills, and a far-west 84003 ZIP can read as American Fork, so on an edge parcel you confirm the city of record before you even ask about the unit. That is not a reason to walk away, but it is the reason to verify rather than assume. What is allowed depends on the parcel's zoning, and the two questions that decide everything are whether the unit is permitted with Pleasant Grove City and whether it has its own legal egress, meaning a code-sized window well or door out of every sleeping room.
Treat any income angle with the same caution, and confirm the legal picture before you count on the income. 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 grid and bench ramblers are the natural hunting ground, so the single-story page is a useful next stop, 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 Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove most of these are basement apartments, since full basements are the norm in this cold-climate 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 of the page title. 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. East-bench walkout lots make this easiest.
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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 Pleasant Grove, 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 older downtown grid
The original 1850s plat around Main and Center holds century-old brick and mid-century homes, and many were given finished basements over the decades. It is a likely place to find a real separate suite, and also a likely place to find one finished without a permit, so it is where verification matters most. Date the bones and systems while you are at it.
The east bench, below the canyons
The 1970s-to-1990s streets climbing toward the Battle Creek and Grove Creek trailheads sit on lots that step down toward the valley, which makes a walkout or daylight lower level common. A walkout lets the basement open to grade with full windows and its own door, the ideal setup for a separate suite that lives like its own floor rather than a dark basement.
Grovecrest and the central-east blocks
The mid-century-to-1990s middle ground around Grovecrest Elementary is the widest slice of the resale market most months, with plenty of full basements, some finished as separate living space. A newer build is more likely to have been finished with permits, but you still verify it.
Split-level and split-entry stock
The older grid and lower bench carry a real share of split-levels from the mid-century through the 1980s, and the split layout can put a private entrance just a half-flight down. That design is why a lot of lower-level conversions started here. Confirm the egress windows on the bedrooms below.
Larger 1990s-2010s plans
The bigger two-story floor plans in the central subdivisions 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. The newer the build, the better the odds it was finished to code.
The west side and edge parcels
The newest west-side product near the Valley Grove district leans toward townhomes and small-lot infill, the least likely place for a separate suite. More to the point, far-west and edge addresses interleave with American Fork and Lindon, and a far-west 84003 ZIP can read as American Fork, so confirm the actual city before you ask anyone about a unit's legality.
Before you tour: what to actually check
Is it permitted: ask the listing agent for the permit history and confirm the unit's status with Pleasant Grove City. A second kitchen and a side door do not make a unit legal on their own.
Zoning on the parcel: what is allowed depends on the specific parcel's zoning. Confirm the lot is the city of record on edge addresses, then confirm what that zone permits before you count on a separate unit.
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.
Walkout and ceiling height: an older basement can be low. Stand in it. A tall daylight or walkout lower level, common on the east bench, lives very differently from a short, fully below-grade basement.
Want a real accessory dwelling without the guesswork?
Tell me your budget, the part of Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove-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 Pleasant Grove home with a basement apartment, a casita, or an attached accessory suite? The buyers reading this page want exactly that. List it with the Pleasant Grove-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 Pleasant Grove 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, 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 Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove's 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 downtown grid and the 1970s-to-1990s east bench below the Battle Creek and Grove Creek trailheads, where finished basements run deep and the bench's sloped lots make walkout lower levels common. Attached suites turn up in the bigger two-story floor plans through the central Grovecrest subdivisions, and a fully detached casita is the rarest form here, since it takes a lot with room for a second structure. On far-west and edge addresses, confirm the home is actually in Pleasant Grove and not American Fork or Lindon first. 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 Pleasant Grove 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. East-bench walkout lots often clear this easily because the lower level already opens to grade.
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 Pleasant Grove-area partner agent and flag matching listings as they go live. Pair that with a pre-approval conversation so you can move when the right separate-suite home lists, since these are a narrow slice in a fast, low-inventory market and they do not sit long.