Eighteen view lots perched above the rest of Old Sorrel Ranch. Four Westview floor plans by AJ Caplin Custom Homes. Three Peaks in the windows, fiber to every lot, and walk-out basements where the topography earns them. Here is what to know before you build or before you list.
Source: OldSorrelHeights.com and AJ Caplin Custom Homes.
Old Sorrel Heights is the elevated, semi-custom carve-out at the top of the Old Sorrel Ranch master plan on the west edge of Cedar City. Eighteen lots, one builder, four floor plans, and a topographic advantage the rest of the master plan does not have. The lots sit at a higher grade than the production blocks below, which is exactly the point. Three Peaks fills the back windows, the valley opens up below, and the surrounding mountains do the rest of the work.
The build program is run by AJ Caplin Custom Homes. Alan Caplin has built more than three hundred custom homes across Cedar City and Southern Utah over the last two decades. He is the entire builder relationship here. There is no production sales office, no national-brand spec inventory, no rotating onsite agent. You sit with Alan, pick a Westview plan, and customize from there. Pinterest boards encouraged.
The location reads the same as the rest of Old Sorrel Ranch on paper. Roughly two and a half miles to Interstate 15 and the Cedar City Regional Airport, three miles to Southern Utah University, a mile and a half to the Cedar City Utah Temple. The difference at the Heights is the elevation, the lot orientation toward the western sunsets and Three Peaks, and the fact that every home on the cul-de-sacs above you is built by the same hand. That consistency holds value better than the production blocks tend to.
Every home at the Heights starts from one of these four plans. Finishes, fixtures, exterior elevation, and interior layout details are all up for conversation with Alan. The full plans, renderings, and lot map live on the official subdivision site.
Main-level living with a finished walkout basement, covered deck, and Three Peaks views. The plan most right-sizers gravitate toward.
Five bedrooms, four baths, three thousand square feet. The most flexible of the four plans for a growing family or a multi-generational setup.
Open-concept main floor with vaulted ceilings, a foyer that leads into the great room, a den, and a primary suite separated from the secondary bedrooms.
Three levels, 4,263 square feet, outdoor kitchen built for Southern Utah evenings, upstairs primary with sliding glass doors to the deck, finished lower level with playroom, built-in bar, and a fifth bedroom.
These are the citywide Cedar City single-family numbers I brief every seller with before we talk strategy. They show which direction the market is moving. What they cannot tell you is what your specific home is worth, because a citywide median hides the differences in lot, finish, and location that decide your number. That gap is exactly why a personalized Old Sorrel Heights valuation matters more here than any headline median.
Citywide single-family figures, year over year. A rising median with homes selling near asking signals a market with momentum. Use it as backdrop for your home, not as a per-square-foot price.
Based on information from the Iron County Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service for the period May 1, 2025 through May 1, 2026. Figures reflect citywide single-family residential activity for Cedar City and are not specific to Old Sorrel Heights. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
I work inside the Heights from both sides, sales for new builds and listing for resales. These are the patterns that show up every time, and the ones a generic Cedar City agent will miss.
A lazy CMA will lean on D.R. Horton resales one street over and undercut your price by fifty grand or more. Heights resales price on Westview plan, lot orientation, walk-out finish status, and Alan Caplin's spec level. Pull the right comps and the conversation changes.
Three Peaks at golden hour, the valley below, the SUU farm in the foreground, all of it. iPhone photos at noon do not communicate any of that, and the buyer pool for this product shops online first. Drone, twilight, and a cinematic walkthrough are the floor here, not the ceiling.
Pricing here works on a tiered per-square-foot framework: main level carries the most value, finished basement space is valued at a meaningful discount to main level, and unfinished space counts for far less. The Westview plans put serious square footage in the lower level on the right lots. A professionally finished walk-out with a bedroom, bath, and bar pays back almost dollar for dollar. A half-finished DIY job does the opposite. I run the specific numbers for your plan and lot in a valuation.
A meaningful share of Heights buyers are coming from California, Las Vegas, the Wasatch Front, and even back east, and they are also shopping Stone Cliff, Entrada, and Sand Hollow on the same trip. The listing story has to land Cedar City's case in the first thirty seconds: four real seasons, lower price per square foot than St. George, a working university town, and a view product St. George cannot match at this price.
The Heights inherits Old Sorrel Ranch's location and then improves on it with elevation. You are five minutes from the freeway, the airport, and the temple, and you back the SUU farm with mountain views past it.
The view in your back windows. BLM trails, mountain biking, OHV access, and the visual anchor that names half the Westview plans.
~3 miles. SUU campus, the Centrum, the Shakespeare Festival, and the 800-acre working farm that sits between the Heights and the city.
~2.5 miles. St. George an hour south, Las Vegas roughly two and a half, Salt Lake City three and a half.
~2.5 miles. SkyWest commercial service to SLC and Denver, plus general aviation. Underrated for buyers who fly often.
~1.5 miles. Closest temple in southwest Utah, on Cross Hollow Road.
Cedar Middle School ~1.9 mi, Cedar High School ~2.8 mi, Iron Springs Elementary ~7 mi. All Iron County School District.
Active inventory lives on my MovingUtah.com sister site, which carries 500+ city and subdivision pages across Southern Utah, including a live feed for the broader Old Sorrel Ranch master plan that the Heights sits inside.
Closed sales, median price, days on market, sale-to-list, and inventory across all of Cedar City, refreshed monthly from the Iron County Board of Realtors MLS.
Read the full reportThe full Cedar City seller playbook. Cinematic media, Coming Soon window, agent network activation, and the digital campaign most local agents do not run.
See the listing playbookThe questionnaire takes about four minutes. I pull Heights-specific comps, factor in Westview plan, walk-out finish status, and lot orientation, then send back a written pricing band with the math behind it. Usually within one business day.
Free, no obligation, no marketing list. Just an honest number on your specific home.
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If you are weighing the Heights against the rest of the city, these two pockets show up most often in the same conversation.
The broader 475-lot master plan the Heights sits inside. Production single-family homes by D.R. Horton, an adjacent 203-unit townhome subdivision, and 70 acres of Cross Hollow commercial frontage still building out.
Explore Old Sorrel RanchThe established build-out from the 1990s and 2000s south of the Heights. Mature trees, larger interior lots, paid-off mortgages, less HOA structure. The Heights' opposite, often considered alongside it.
Explore Cross HollowsFour-minute questionnaire. Heights-specific comps. Westview plan and walk-out finish factored in. Written pricing band back within one business day. No signup wall, no marketing list, no pressure to list.
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