No HOA in St. George, Utah means no monthly dues, no architectural committee and no letters about your trash cans, but it does not mean no rules. The St. George City Code still decides how tall your front fence can be, how long a trailer can sit on the street, …

A VA loan is worth more in St. George, Utah than most veterans realize, and the biggest piece of it often has nothing to do with the mortgage. On a $600,000 home with nothing down, the VA funding fee is $12,900 on first use under the fee table VA lists …

Washington County, Utah had 1,992 active residential listings in September 2026, up 6.4 percent from 1,872 in September 2025 and up 59 percent from 1,253 in September 2019, the last September before COVID. Those counts come from the Washington County MLS, which I pulled month by month on October 16, …

St. George, Utah has two electric companies, and the Virgin River mostly decides which one you get. The City of St. George serves the north side, and Dixie Power serves the parts of the city south of the river, which the city itself names as Bloomington, Bloomington Hills and Little …

Washington County is small on a map, and the mileage backs that up. Utah Department of Transportation mileposts put the St. George Boulevard interchange at I-15 milepost 8.666 and the Hurricane exit at milepost 15.948, which is 7.28 miles of freeway between them. The reason commutes here still catch people …

The median sale price in Washington County, Utah was $499,990 in September 2026, down 0.2 percent from $500,995 a year earlier, and 319 homes closed in September 2026 against 322 in September 2025. Those are the settled counts from the MLS as of October 4, 2026. The report I pulled …

Little Valley is the part of St. George where people still keep horses inside the city limits, and it is also where buyers get surprised most often after they close. The surprises come from three things a listing photo cannot show: what the zoning on that lot allows, whether the …

For years the honest answer to "what will insurance run me" was that Utah is one of the cheapest states in the country and you should not lose sleep over it. The first half is still true. The second half has gotten complicated. In 2025 the Utah Insurance Department ran …

Buyers ask me about water in Washington County more often than they ask about schools, and it is a fair question in a desert that keeps adding people. The answer starts with a fact that surprises almost everyone who moves here: every drop of culinary water in this county comes …