Utah law already lets you build a second living unit inside your own house, and most homeowners I talk to here have no idea it is on the books. Under Utah Code 10-21-303, effective November 6, 2025, an internal accessory dwelling unit is a permitted use in any area …

Through the end of August, 2,922 homes have closed in Washington County this year against 2,926 over the same stretch of 2025. That is a difference of four sales out of nearly three thousand. Every month in between has looked dramatic, and August looked worse than most: the median sale …

If you are upside down on your Southern Utah home and weighing a short sale, one thing changed this year that most local pages have not caught up to. The federal exclusion that let homeowners keep forgiven mortgage debt out of taxable income expired for discharges after December 31, 2025. …

There is no Washington County short-term rental rule. Every city writes its own, unincorporated county land runs on a separate ordinance, and they disagree on which zones qualify, how many days count as short term, and whether a new license is available at all. I have had buyers go under …

A $600,000 primary residence in Washington County, Utah is billed somewhere between about $1,928 and $2,629 a year in property tax at 2026 proposed rates, and where it lands inside that range depends on which city you buy in. That is the entire spread across the county, roughly $700 a …

If you are buying a home in the St. George area and schools matter to your family, the first thing to know is that every address in Washington County, Utah is assigned to four public schools, not one: an elementary school for kindergarten through 5th grade, an intermediate school for …

I spent most of a day last week doing something tedious: reading Utah closing cost pages side by side with the actual documents they claim to describe. The state-approved purchase contract, First American Title's Utah rate schedule, and the Washington County Recorder's published fee schedule. Three claims turn up over …

If you want to walk out your front door and be on a dirt trail in St. George, Utah, the addresses that deliver that are a short list: Paradise Canyon on the northwest side, the streets feeding the Gap Trailhead on Cascade Canyon Drive, Bloomington off Navajo Drive, Green Valley …

Two identical houses in Washington County, Utah, using the same 2,000 kilowatt hours in the same August, can get power bills $88 apart. That is not a difference in insulation or thermostat settings. It is a difference in which utility happens to serve the address, and buyers almost never look …

Almost every buyer who calls me about a trailer, a boat or a fifth wheel asks the same question in the same nervous way: can I keep it at the house? The answer depends on which city you land in, and the three cities most of my clients choose between …