Utah Home Prices: Average & Median Sale Price, 2016–2026

Wasatch Front Regional MLS Data

Utah Single Family Home Sales

Every month of Utah single family sales since January 2016 — median price, days on market, price per square foot, and sale-to-list ratio. Move across the chart to read any month.

Utah home prices at a glance

The median Utah single family home sold for approximately $585,000 in July 2026, and the average sale price was approximately $752,931. A year earlier, in July 2025, the median was approximately $587,931 — so prices are essentially flat year over year. In January 2016, the same measure stood at approximately $239,900, meaning Utah’s median single family sale price has risen roughly 144% over the past decade.

The peak monthly reading came in May 2022 at approximately $599,996. Prices corrected after that and have traded in a narrow band ever since, which is why the three most recent calendar years all show a median between approximately $541,000 and approximately $575,000.

Market speed tells a sharper story than price. The median Utah home took approximately 39 days to go under contract in July 2026. At the height of the 2021 market that figure hit 5 days in March 2021. The slowest month in the entire dataset was February 2026 at approximately 59 days. Sellers who remember the 2021 market are frequently surprised by how much longer a sale takes today.

Sale-to-list ratios moved the same way. The median Utah seller received approximately 98% of their original asking price in July 2026. In May 2021 the median seller got 106% — the typical home sold well above asking. The low point was 91% in November 2022.

Volume swung hardest of all. Utah closed approximately 39,913 single family sales in 2020 and approximately 25,290 in 2023, a decline of roughly 37% in three years. Sales have recovered modestly since, with approximately 17,370 closings through the first seven months of 2026 against approximately 16,186 over the same period in 2025.

Average vs median: why Utah has two different home prices

Ask what a Utah home costs and you can get two honest answers that are $168,000 apart. In July 2026 the average single family sale price was approximately $752,931. The median was approximately $585,000. Both come from the same MLS report, covering the same 2,713 closed sales.

The difference is what each number does with extreme sales. The average adds up every sale price and divides by the number of sales, so a handful of multi-million dollar homes drags it upward. The median simply finds the middle sale — half of Utah homes sold for more, half for less — and a $6 million sale in Park City moves it no more than a $600,000 sale in Ogden does.

For a homeowner trying to understand what their house is worth, the median is almost always the more useful number. The average describes a market that includes the luxury tier; the median describes the middle of it, which is where most people actually live.

The gap has widened for a decade

The most revealing thing in this dataset is not either number on its own — it is the ratio between them. In 2016 the Utah average sale price ran about 1.17 times the median. By 2025 it reached about 1.28 times, the widest in the eleven years covered here.

That widening means Utah’s high end has been pulling away from its middle. Luxury sale prices have grown faster than typical ones. It also explains why headlines about Utah real estate can feel disconnected from what ordinary sellers experience: a story quoting an average is describing a market that includes homes most Utahns will never buy or sell.

It is also why comparing numbers across sources goes wrong so easily. An average from one site, a median from another, and a modeled index from a third are three genuinely different measurements. Comparing them tells you nothing about the market and a lot about the methodology.

Utah home prices by year, 2016 to 2026

* 2026 covers January through July only. Annual average sale price is exact: total sale volume divided by total transaction count. Annual median, days on market, and sale-to-list are the midpoint of that year’s monthly medians, because a true annual median cannot be derived from monthly medians. Homes-sold counts are exact sums.

Why these numbers differ from Zillow and the big portals

If you have checked Utah home prices on more than one site, you have probably seen four different answers. That is not because someone is wrong. It is because the major portals are measuring something different from what this page measures.

Zillow’s headline figure is the Zillow Home Value Index. In Zillow’s own documentation, ZHVI is described as a weighted average of the middle third of homes in a region, and Zillow explicitly states that it is not a median home price. It is assembled from Zestimates — modeled valuations generated by machine learning models for homes across the country, including homes that have not sold in years and homes that are not for sale at all. That is a legitimate and useful measure of what homes are broadly worth. It is simply not a record of what buyers paid.

The figures on this page are the opposite kind of number. Every one of them comes from a closed sale — a real Utah home, a real buyer, a real recorded price, entered into the MLS by the agent who closed it. Nothing here is modeled or estimated.

Two practical consequences follow. First, blending condominiums and townhomes into a statewide number pulls it down, because attached homes sell for less than detached ones. A single family median and an all-property median are not comparable figures, and much of the gap between this page and portal pages is exactly that. Second, a modeled value updates on a model’s schedule; a closed sale is a fact on a specific date.

Why the Wasatch Front Regional MLS is the right source for Utah

WFRMLS is Utah’s largest multiple listing service and one of the largest in the United States, serving roughly 96% of REALTORS in the state. Around 97% of Utah homes listed for sale are entered into it, and the smaller Utah listing services — including Park City and St. George — make their listings available through it as well.

That matters for a simple reason: national portals do not originate listing data. They receive it, downstream, from services like WFRMLS, and then apply their own filters, blends, and models on top. This page skips the intermediary. Aaron Peters pulls the Sales Per Month Report directly from the MLS as a licensed Utah broker, and publishes what it says.

Every figure here has been cross-checked against the source report. Total sale volume divided by transaction count reconciles to the published average sale price on every one of the 127 months, to the dollar.

What this means if you are selling

At Utah’s July 2026 median single family sale price of approximately $585,000, a traditional 3% listing commission costs approximately $17,550. DiscountAgent.com lists the same home for 1.5% — approximately $8,775 — which leaves approximately $8,775 in your pocket at closing for the same full MLS exposure, professional photography, negotiation, and closing support.

The market data above matters here too. With median days on market near 39 and the median seller receiving about 98% of original asking price, pricing strategy carries more weight than it did three years ago. That is a conversation worth having with someone who has been reading this same MLS data since 2006. Call or text 801-243-8900.

Utah home price questions, answered