The numbers,
read straight.
Median price, days on market, and inventory for six Southern Utah cities. Pulled from local MLS data, updated every month, and read the way I would tell a neighbor over the fence. Pick your city and see where the market actually sits.
Single-family figures from county REALTOR board MLS data. Sources cited on every report.
An online estimate is a guess. This is the data your sale actually runs on.
Utah is a non-disclosure state, which means the big national portals are working with incomplete sale data. They fill the gaps with models. I work from the local MLS, the same numbers a listing gets priced against, and I publish them straight: median sale price, days on market, inventory, and how this period compares to the same period a year ago.
Every city below has its own archive going back through 2025, with a fresh monthly report, the quarterly roll-ups, and a full year-in-review. Pick your city, read the latest, and if the numbers have you thinking about a move, the valuation questionnaire is the fastest way to turn a market median into your specific number.
What Southern Utah actually did last month.
One sentence, because it is the truest one: prices flattened or eased a little, and the market got noticeably faster. St. George, the deep market the others orbit, sat almost exactly where it did a year ago. Washington and Hurricane gave back a few points on the median. Cedar City kept climbing at a healthy clip.
The headline-grabbers are Ivins at +55% and Santa Clara at +14%, but I am going to be straight with you the way a portal never will: those rode on 12 and 5 closings. In markets that small, one or two luxury sales drag the median around. That is a mix shift, not a wave. The real regional story is in the days-on-market column, where every single city sold faster than last May, some by a lot.
Speed reads median days on market: fast is 45 or under, steady is 46 to 75, patient is 76 plus. Price direction is single-family median against May 2025. Thin sample flags markets with fewer than 20 closings, where one sale moves the median.
Six cities. Six markets. One honest read each.
Each card shows that city's most recent single-family median. Tap through for the full archive of monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
SUU, Old Sorrel Ranch, and the steadiest of the six markets. A solid +16% on 71 closings, with homes selling 15 days faster than a year ago. Full 2025 and 2026 archive.
The region's bellwether and by far the deepest market, 130 closings on 732 active listings. The median held nearly flat against last May, the steady center the smaller markets swing around.
A fast-selling Washington County market where the median eased 4% but homes still moved in 39 days, second-quickest of the six. A price adjustment, not a demand problem.
Sand Hollow, the Zion gateway, and a market where short-term-rental zoning moves values block by block. The median softened 5%, but homes under contract jumped 60% over last May.
Kayenta, red-rock benches, and the highest median of the six. That +55% is real but rode on just 12 closings, so the mix shifted toward higher-end homes more than the whole market jumped. The report explains it straight.
Snow Canyon proximity, Entrada at the top end, and the fastest market of the six at just 16 days. Only 5 homes closed, so read the median as a small, tight sample, not a citywide surge. The report shows the full picture.
Cedar City figures from the Iron County Board of REALTORS MLS. Washington County cities from the Washington County Board of REALTORS MLS. Population context from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah.
All six markets, side by side.
Single-family medians for May 2026, ranked high to low, against the same month last year. Closed sales are shown too, because a big percentage on a handful of sales means something different than the same move on a hundred. The view no national portal gives you on one page.
| City | Median | YoY | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivins Washington County | $919,950 | up 55% | View |
| Santa Clara Washington County | $647,500 | up 14% | View |
| St. George Washington County | $609,274 | flat | View |
| Washington Washington County | $559,439 | down 4% | View |
| Hurricane Washington County | $558,250 | down 5% | View |
| Cedar City Iron County | $507,495 | up 16% | View |
A citywide median averages every street, subdivision, and price band into one number that fits almost no individual home. It is the right tool for reading the market and the wrong tool for pricing your house. For that, the valuation questionnaire starts from your exact parcel.
From Cedar City to Ivins is a $412,000 gap.
Six cities, one county line between them, and median single-family prices that span more than two-to-one. Here is May 2026 to scale, so the distance between these markets is something you can see, not just read.
Ivins and Santa Clara each closed fewer than 20 single-family homes in May, so their medians sit on small samples and swing more than the larger markets. St. George, with 130 closings, is the steadiest gauge of where the region really sits. Figures from the Iron County and Washington County Boards of REALTORS via FlexMLS.
Three cadences, three different jobs.
Each report type answers a different question. Here is when to reach for which.
What is the market doing right now?
The freshest signal. Compared to the same month last year, so seasonality is controlled for. Best for timing a listing in the next 60 to 90 days.
What is the trend, not the noise?
A steadier read that smooths out any single soft or hot month. Best for understanding direction before you commit to a plan.
Where did the year actually land?
The full year-in-review against the prior year. Best for the big-picture equity conversation and long-range planning.
The portal number and the MLS number are not the same number.
Utah is one of a dozen non-disclosure states. Sale prices are not public record here. That one fact changes everything about whose data you can trust, and it is the reason these reports exist.
What a national portal does
In a non-disclosure state, the portals cannot see the actual sold price on most homes. So they estimate. A model guesses what each home was worth, then those guesses get averaged into a "market trend." It is a model built on top of other models, and it is why two portals will show you two different values for the very same house.
Useful for a rough idea. Not what your listing gets priced against.
What these reports do
Every figure here is a real closed sale, reported by the agents who closed it, recorded in the county REALTOR board MLS. Actual sold prices, actual days on market, actual inventory counts. The same data set a listing agent prices your home against, because that is exactly what I am doing with it.
These are not models or estimates, just the price a sale actually closed at.
Single-family is the headline
Lead figures are single-family residential, the most consistent slice to compare year over year. Condos and townhomes trade on different cycles, so I keep them out of the headline number.
Always same month, last year
Every comparison is against the same month a year earlier, never last month. That controls for season, so a spring bump does not get mistaken for a real trend.
Median, not average
The median is the middle sale, so one mansion or one teardown does not distort it the way an average would. In small markets even the median moves on a few sales, and I say so when it does.
Volume is the trust check
A 50% jump on 5 sales is noise. The same jump on 130 sales is a market. Closed-sale counts run beside every figure so you can weigh how much to trust the percentage.
Population context: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah.
A median is just a number until someone connects it to your move.
Most sellers are not really asking what the market did. They are asking a harder question: if I sell into this, can I actually land the next house without two mortgages or a month in limbo? That is where most of these reports stop and most agents hand you off to a separate lender.
I am licensed on both sides. I am the listing agent on the home you sell and the mortgage lender on the home you buy, so the equity number from a report and the financing on your next place are run by the same person, in the same conversation. No telephone game between an agent and a loan officer who have never spoken. One coordinator, both halves of the move, timed to line up.
One honest note on the rules: I cannot act as your buyer's agent and your lender on the very same purchase at once. What I do is quarterback the whole move, the sale and the financing, and bring in the right specialist where the rules require it. You are always free to choose your own agent and your own lender; using mine is never required, and I am compensated for whichever role I hold. The coordination is the value, and it stays above board.
Pricing, marketing, and the launch window, read from the same MLS data on these reports.
Financing on the purchase, including buy-before-you-sell options, run by the same person handling the sale.
Sale proceeds and purchase financing lined up so you are not carrying two payments or scrambling between closings.
Licensed in both real estate and mortgage lending, with each role disclosed on contact. The two roles stay legally separate where required, and you are always free to use your own agent or lender.
A median is the neighborhood. Your home is the address.
These reports tell you what the market did. They cannot tell you what your specific home, on your specific street, with your specific updates, is worth today. That is a different conversation, and the questionnaire is where it starts. Free, about three minutes, no signup wall.
Honest pricing band. No marketing list.
Straight answers about the data.
Where does this data actually come from?
Why is your number different from an online home estimate?
A small city jumped 50% in a month. Did prices really spike?
How often are these updated?
Can I use a citywide median to price my house?
Why does it matter that you are licensed on both sides?
Once you know the market, here is what is next.
The reports are the read. These are the moves.
Sell My Home
The full listing playbook by city. Pricing, marketing, and the launch window that gets the most eyes on day one.
Move Up
For homeowners ready for the next house. Equity math, buy-before-you-sell options, and one coordinator on both sides.
Right-Sizing
For the move into a home that fits this chapter better. The equity story and the full financial picture.
Seller calculators hub
Six agent-perspective tools, including net sheet, equity position, and the sell-now-or-wait model.
Neighborhoods
The subdivision-level view under each city. The communities where these medians actually trade.
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