Hurricane housing market
February 2025

The single-month flip in this Hurricane data is striking. January closed soft on the headline, with the high end taking its annual winter pause. February did the opposite. Sales more than doubled over last February, dollar volume almost tripled, and the average sale price climbed forty four percent year over year because the upper tier of Hurricane transacted in volume again. The same Sand Hollow, Sky Ranch, and bench-side resort homes that did not change hands in January closed in February.

Some of that jump is a base effect. February 2024 was a thin month in Hurricane, with only eighteen single-family closings. Doubling against eighteen is not the same achievement as doubling against a busier base. Even so, the absolute numbers in February 2025 sit well above the typical February for this market, the inventory shelf is the deepest it has been in a long time, and new listings ran almost forty percent ahead of last year. The spring market in Hurricane did not just arrive on time, it arrived with the upper tier back in play.

Set February 2025 next to February 2024 and the cleanest reads come from the dollar lines. Volume almost tripled, the average pulled away from the median, and the median itself climbed by a quarter. That set tells you the typical home priced higher AND the high end came back online. The two effects compound, which is why the average ran ahead of the median in percentage terms.

The counter-intuitive line: days on market lengthened. With sales doubling, you might expect the typical home to fly. Instead, a deeper shelf gave buyers more to look at, so the time from list to under contract stretched out. That is not weakness, it is a market with more options. The percent-of-list ratio held steady at ninety-nine, which is the clearest signal that pricing discipline is intact even with more inventory to choose from.

February is the month the Hurricane shelf is widest. Active inventory hit three hundred single-family homes, up from two hundred and twenty seven last February, and new listings came onto the market at the strongest pace of any month in recent memory. That gives serious buyers room to be selective, time to evaluate, and the upper hand to negotiate against. The flip side: with sales running at double last year's pace, the homes that fit the bid the cleanest do not sit.

Hurricane is more pocket-by-pocket than its size suggests. A view lot in Copper Rock runs on a completely different cadence than a family build in Dixie Springs, or a long-established home in Pecan Valley. Sort the area question first, then the home question. The Hurricane neighborhoods guide is the fastest way to do that.

February is the month Hurricane's seasonal calendar shifts gears. Snowbirds who arrived for the cold months start looking at staying or upgrading. Recreation buyers begin planning the year. The Sand Hollow lake and the dunes start to feature in showings again, and the upper-tier resort buyers, who paused in January, come back to the table. The 2025 data shows that pattern in unusually vivid form, because the January pause and the February rebound both ran above their typical seasonal swings.

Same-period-prior-year remains the right way to read this. Comparing to January is reading the calendar; comparing to last February takes seasonality out of the picture, and on that basis February 2025 is one of the strongest Februaries in this market's recent history.

Two questions sit on top of the February data heading into March. First, does the high end keep transacting, or was February a single catch-up surge? The under-contract count slipped this month, which says the pipeline is rebuilding but is not yet at January's load level. Second, does the inventory keep climbing? Three hundred active single-family homes is a deep shelf for Hurricane, and at this pace of new listings, March could push higher. A deeper shelf is not a problem if buyers keep showing up; it is one if they slow down. The next month's data tells us which.

City-wide numbers are not your home. For the number that matters, the next step is a real valuation. The moving up in Hurricane page covers sequencing your sale and your next purchase so the timing lines up.

Hurricane is layered. A primary-residence single-family home in Sky Mountain, Dixie Springs, or Cordero trades on a completely different curve than an STR-zoned condo or townhouse at Sand Hollow Resort or in parts of Pecan Valley, and the gap between the two has only widened in the last twelve months. A citywide median averages those two markets together into a number that fits almost no individual home. Real pricing starts at your parcel, comparing recent closings inside your subdivision and your product type, then adjusts for view, lot, and rental rights. The fastest read on where your home likely lands is the what is my home worth in Hurricane page, then a full home valuation turns the band into a calibrated number.

Timing matters more here than in cities without an active STR overlay. If you are deciding between listing now and waiting, the should I sell now or wait calculator runs the math on carry cost against probable appreciation, and the seller net sheet shows what you would actually pocket once the costs you cannot avoid come out. Getting the first list price right in week one is the single biggest lever you control, because the Hurricane buyer pool is more selective than it was a year ago and any overpriced listing quietly trains the market to wait you out.

Hurricane is not one market either. Sand Hollow Resort STR product trades against a national pool of Vrbo and Airbnb investors and underwrites off projected nightly revenue. Sky Ranch, Hurricane Views, Falcon Ridge, and Dixie Springs trade against Wasatch Front primary-residence buyers on conventional financing. Two homes four hundred yards apart can have completely different rental rights, completely different buyer pools, and completely different price discovery. National algorithms miss this entirely.

That is why the neighborhood lens is the starting point here, not a footnote. Whether your home sits in a Cordero or Firerock primary-residence pocket, on a Sand Hollow Championship Course view lot, or inside a designated STR overlay, the marketing pitch has to match the actual buyer pool for the product type. My full breakdown of every Hurricane area, what it offers, who buys there, the rental rules, and how it tends to price, lives on the Hurricane neighborhoods guide. Start there before you anchor to a single listing.

Most Hurricane sellers are landing somewhere next, and the two halves go far smoother planned as one. If you are scaling up for a Sky Ranch view lot or a Cordero floor plan with room to spread out, my moving up in Hurricane guide covers the sequencing so you are never stuck owning two homes or scrambling with none. If you are pulling equity and going the other way toward a low-maintenance single level closer to town, the right-sizing in Hurricane page walks through doing it without leaving money on the table.

New construction is genuinely worth a look in either direction, because Hurricane carries more active and entitled lots than any city in the region. Sand Hollow Resort, Cordero, Copper Rock, Firerock, and Peach Springs Estates all run consistent inventory with active builder incentives. My new construction in Hurricane guide breaks down the active communities and the builder bench behind them. When you are ready to list, the full story of how I take a Hurricane home to market lives on my sell your Hurricane home page. Whichever direction you are headed, I can quarterback both sides of it at once.