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Homes with an ADU or casita in Taylorsville.
Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville listings appear here as they list, and sold homes drop off. The read on what makes one legal is just below.
Buying here
Confirm permits and egress before anything else.
A second kitchen and a side door do not make a lower level a legal accessory unit on their own; that comes down to permits and proper egress windows for any bedroom below grade. Tell me what setup you need and I will have the Taylorsville-area partner agent I work with pull the permit history on any home you flag.
Selling here
Own a Taylorsville home with an ADU, casita, or finished basement apartment?
Buyers on this page want that separate living space, provided the paperwork backs it up. List it with the Taylorsville-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 Taylorsville.
An accessory dwelling is a property feature, not a promise. On a Taylorsville 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.
Taylorsville is good ground for this search, and the form it takes here is almost always the basement apartment. The valley frost line is deep, so foundations go down and a basement is the norm, and this is a city built almost entirely in the 1970s through the 1990s, when a finished lower level that doubled the living space was a core part of the value. The ramblers and split-entries near the historic Taylorsville and Bennion cores, and the river side along the Jordan, carry a deep stock of full basements, and adding a second kitchen and a private entrance to that kind of lower level is exactly the conversion these listings describe. Some of the later two-story plats through the buildout carry tall, built-out lower levels too. This is flat valley floor without the bench or foothill relief that produces a true walkout elsewhere in the Salt Lake Valley, so plan on an egress window and well rather than a door that opens straight onto a sloped yard. A fully detached casita is the rarest shape here, since it takes a lot with room for a second structure in a city this built out, 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 or a suite built some other way. 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 Taylorsville 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 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 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 Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville most of these are basement apartments, since full basements are standard on this stock. An attached mother-in-law suite turns up on some homes, and a detached casita is rare in a built-out city, so read the listing for where the space actually sits.
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Second kitchen: a full or kitchenette setup downstairs is the core marker. A finished basement with no kitchen is just finished space, not a separate unit, so read the listing for the actual lower-level 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 lower level usable as its own space 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 Taylorsville, 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 east, along the Jordan River
The original 1848 settlement geography on the river side holds some of the city's oldest stock, the ramblers and split-entries that sit over the deepest finished basements. 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. The Jordan River Parkway runs the full east edge here.
Bennion country in the southwest
The soft footprint of the historic Bennion settlement, around Bennion Junior High off 2700 West, carries mature mid-century and 1970s lots. Older homes here often have full basements with the room for a second kitchen and a grade-level door, and they come with the full older-home homework list on permits and systems.
Split-entry floor plans
Taylorsville's defining stock pairs ramblers, split-entries, and two-story homes, and the split-entry 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 2700 West corridor and the west edge
The west blocks toward Bangerter and the Kearns line, along the 2700 West state-office spine, mix 1970s-90s tract homes on full basements. Some carry built-out lower levels; check the ramps and sound walls on the newest interchanges nearby, and check the permit status on any apartment.
Later two-story plats
The late-80s and 90s two-story plats scattered through the later buildout are generally the youngest detached stock, often with the deepest and tallest basements, which makes a comfortable second kitchen and a real bedroom downstairs more workable than in a low older basement. A newer build is more likely to have been finished with permits, but you still verify it.
Full basements, almost everywhere
This is flat valley floor without the bench or foothill relief that produces a true walkout elsewhere in the Salt Lake Valley, so plan on a full basement below grade on all sides rather than a lot that opens to grade on its own. Egress windows do the work here, for light and a safe way out, so confirm them on every below-grade bedroom before you count it as one.
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 Taylorsville 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 basement apartments 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 Taylorsville basement can be low. Stand in it. This flat-valley stock is full basements almost everywhere, not walkouts, so a code-sized egress window and well is what brings in light, not a door to grade.
Systems on the older stock: on the 1970s-90s ramblers and split-entries, date the roof, furnace, electrical panel, and sewer lateral, and note that water and sewer here run through the Taylorsville-Bennion Improvement District, so check the bill.
Want a real accessory dwelling without the guesswork?
Tell me your budget, the part of Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville-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 lower levels are legal suites and which are just finished basements with a door.
Selling a Taylorsville home with a basement apartment, a casita, or an attached accessory suite? The buyers reading this page want exactly that. List it with the Taylorsville-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 listings use a few different words for it. In Taylorsville 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. An attached mother-in-law suite shows up on the main or upper floor of some homes, and a detached casita is the rarest form in a city this built out, since it takes a lot with room for a second structure. 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 Taylorsville City for that parcel's zoning.
Some are and some are not, which is exactly why you verify rather than assume. An accessory dwelling has to be permitted with Taylorsville 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 stock, the 1970s and 1980s ramblers and split-entries near the historic Taylorsville and Bennion cores and along the Jordan River, which sit over the city's deepest finished basements and carry most of the basement apartments. The later two-story plats through the buildout can carry built-out lower levels too. A fully detached casita is the rarest form here, since this is a built-out city and 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 dwelling is a different thing from a non-conforming space that happens to have a kitchen, and the rules around accessory dwellings depend on the parcel's zoning and can change, so this is a question to confirm with Taylorsville 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 in Taylorsville, 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 Taylorsville-area partner agent and flag matching listings as they go live. Pair that with a conversation about financing so you can move when the right separate-suite home lists, since these are a narrow slice and they do not sit long.