Ask a lender what your closing costs will be in St. George and you will usually get a worksheet full of estimates. Ask the internet and you will get a national percentage that was wrong the day it was published. So let me give you a more useful answer. Some …

Buyers ask me to explain the difference between Washington City and St. George almost every week, usually after a weekend of driving around and realizing they never saw a sign telling them they had crossed from one into the other. The two share a school district, a hospital, a freeway …

Sellers ask me what their house will sell for long before they ask what it will cost them to sell it, and I understand why: the sale price is the fun number. The gap between the contract price and the money that actually reaches your account is real, though, and …

People moving here with kids ask me one question more than any other: where do families actually buy in St. George? After 13 years and 275 closed sales in Washington County, I can tell you the honest answer is that there is no single best neighborhood, but there are five …

I pulled the July numbers for Washington County this weekend, and they tell two stories at once. The median sale price hit $544,990, up 4.2% from last July. Closed sales fell 15.8% over the same stretch, to 309 homes. Prices up, activity down, and both of those things are true …

One of the first questions I get from buyers moving here, usually right after "how hot does it really get," is what property taxes look like in St. George. The short answer surprises most people: the median property tax bill in St. George is $1,813 a year on a median …

The question behind half the phone calls I get is some version of this one: how much do we actually need to make to buy a home in St. George? So let me answer it with real numbers instead of a shrug. Based on June 2026 sales data from our …