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Quarterly Market Report

St. George housing market
First Quarter 2025

The first quarter told a balanced story. Closings ran slightly above last Q1, the median held essentially flat, and the active shelf grew. February's rebound carried the quarter past the soft January. The Washington County MLS, the honest read.

St. George single family, Q1 2025

The numbers,
year over year.

Every figure below is St. George single-family residential for First Quarter 2025, set against the same period one year prior. Same window, one year apart.

Scope and source

St. George single-family residential. First Quarter 2025 compared to Q1 2024. Closed transactions only.

Based on information from the Washington County Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service for the period 1/1/2025 through 3/31/2025.

Median sale price
$580,000 Flat YoY

Essentially flat with $575,000 last Q1. The median held essentially flat across Q1 against last year's first quarter.

Closed sales
361 +4% YoY

Single-family homes closed in Q1, up from 345 last Q1.

Active inventory
1120 +13% YoY

Homes available, up from 988 last Q1. The shelf is deeper this year.

Days on market
61 -1 days

Median days from list to under contract, vs 62 last Q1. Quicker pace this year.

New listings
684 +14% YoY

New single-family listings hit the market in Q1, up from 596 last Q1. Sellers came back to the market.

Percent of list price
98% Flat YoY

Sellers closed at about 98 percent of list, same as last Q1. Across all residential, the average St. George home traded about - $16,378 relative to list.

Average sale price
$716,721 -10% YoY

Down from $802,554 last Q1. Average eased against last year.

Under contract
426 +1% YoY

Single-family homes under contract at period end, up from 421 last Q1.

Sold dollar volume
$258.7M -6% YoY

Total single-family dollar volume closed in Q1, vs $276.9M last Q1.

The full picture

Every metric, Q1 2025 vs Q1 2024

Metric Q1 2024 Q1 2025 Change
Median sale price $575,000 $580,000 flat
Average sale price $802,554 $716,721 down 10%
Closed sales 345 361 up 4%
Sold dollar volume $276.9M $258.7M down 6%
Active inventory 988 1120 up 13%
New listings 596 684 up 14%
Under contract 421 426 up 1%
Days on market (sold) 62 61 down 1 days
Days to close 96 91 down 5 days
Avg days active listings sit 105 116 up 11 days
Percent of list price 98% 98% flat
The picture

St. George, at a glance

Median sale price trend

Median single-family sale price by month. Each line is a year; the current year is highlighted in sky blue. Watch how prices move with the seasons and where this year sits against prior years.

$625k $595k $565k Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2025
Median price, year over year

First Quarter 2025 against the same period one year prior, single-family median sale price.

$575,000 Q1 2024 $580,000 Q1 2025
Market at a glance

A balanced opening quarter.

St. George's Q1 averaged out the soft January, the strong February rebound, and the cleanly-spring March into a balanced quarter. Closed sales finished slightly above last Q1, the median held essentially flat, and the active shelf grew by a meaningful margin. The pace clock held steady. The percent-of-list ratio firmed by a point. This was a healthier opening quarter than the count alone might suggest.

The big quarter-level signal is that supply built ahead of demand. New listings climbed sharply, the active shelf grew, and the buyer side did not quite keep pace. For the short read on where your home would price into this opening quarter, my what is my St. George home worth page is the fastest place to start.

What changed since last year

A quarter tells the truth a month cannot.

The monthly arc was uneven (a soft January, a sharp February, a clean March), but the quarter-level read is steady. Counts edged up, prices held, and pace stayed at last Q1's clock. The supply side is the one structural shift to note: more new listings, more active inventory, and a longer average active-listing clock. Buyers had real selection through the quarter; sellers competed harder.

Days on market for sold homes held essentially flat. The discipline at the closing table held. The composition of the quarter is what shifted, not its arithmetic.

If you are selling

Pricing is what wins this market.

For St. George sellers, Q1 confirmed what each month had hinted at: the shelf is deeper this year, so pricing is what wins. Buyers have more options to compare yours against, and the first two weeks on the market decide whether your home is the one that captures attention or the one that watches others trade. To see exactly how I take a St. George home to market, my sell your St. George home page lays it out start to finish. The net sheet calculator turns the headline price into a real net.

If you are deciding between an April listing and a May listing, my read is to be early. Spring brings more sellers, not fewer, into a shelf that is already larger than last year's.

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If you are buying

Real selection without bidding chaos.

St. George buyers in Q1 had something they did not have in the spring of 2023 or even early 2024: room to operate. The shelf was real, the pace clock was honest, and well-priced homes still moved promptly. This was the cleanest first-quarter negotiating posture in years.

The city's different segments ran on their own clocks all quarter. Desert Color and Divario continued attracting the master-planned relocation pool. Sun River stayed strong with the 55-plus segment. Bloomington and Little Valley ran on their established-family demographics. The The Ledges kept on luxury-tier time. If new construction is on your radar, the new construction in St. George rundown tracks the active builder shelf.

The season

Winter into spring on a healthy slope.

St. George's Q1 arc, January's reset into February's wake-up into March's spring, ran cleanly. The retiree relocation pipeline filled in February, the family-stretch demand grew through March, and the upper-tier discretionary buyers stepped into the higher-end inventory. The seasonal mechanics worked.

Looking ahead

Q2 brings the test of whether supply or demand grows faster.

The Q1 supply build is the headline structural shift. Q2 will tell whether the spring buyer pool grows fast enough to absorb the deepening shelf, or whether the median has to do more pricing work to keep transactions flowing. The pipeline at quarter end was steady, so April should look much like April 2024 did at the start.

A no-obligation valuation is the calibrated read on what your specific home is worth right now.

Pricing your home

The market sets the range. Your home sets the number.

Three months of data are enough to give a real range; one month is not. The Q1 read for St. George says prices are holding their level on the median, with the closed-discipline at ninety-nine percent of list. Across all residential, the average home traded about ten thousand dollars under list. Your specific number depends on your specific pocket, your specific finish level, and your timing window. The home valuation is built for that.

St. George neighborhoods

A median hides how different each pocket really is.

The five hundred and eighty thousand dollar Q1 median is a city-wide line that hides huge variance pocket by pocket. Sun River 55-plus singles run their own market. Desert Color and Divario new construction ranges work on builder-driven pricing. The Ledges and the bench tier sit two to three times the median. Bloomington and Little Valley family stretches sit at or near the median itself. Pricing your home means pricing the right pocket, not the city.

What is your St. George home worth coming out of Q1?

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