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 …

In September 2026, renting a three-bedroom house in St. George, Utah costs between $1,995 and $2,168 a month depending on the rental site, and owning the median-priced home in Washington County costs about $3,062 a month before repairs. That is a $520,000 house bought with 20 percent down at last …

Fourteen golf courses sit within a twenty mile radius of St. George, Utah, and only two of them are private clubs. Six belong to a city. The rest sell tee times to whoever books one. Some version of this comes up on nearly every showing I do near a fairway, …

If you are buying your first home in St. George, Utah, there are exactly three Utah Housing Corporation loan programs open to you, one state assistance program worth up to $20,000 that only works on new construction priced at or under $450,000, and no city or county down payment program …

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 …