One Rate Real Estate, LLC

It is one of a number of small independent offices working the eastern half of the St. George metropolitan area, where Washington city's growth around Coral Canyon and the Washington Fields has driven most of the county's new residential construction.

The long tail of the directory

Washington County supports a remarkable number of one-broker firms for a population this size, most of them run by agents who spent years at larger offices before hanging their own license. A small sign says little about experience either way — the useful question is how long the broker has worked Washington and what they have closed in it.

The setting

Washington city adjoins St. George on the east and has absorbed a large share of the county’s new subdivisions, spreading up into Coral Canyon and Green Springs and south across the Washington Fields. Reading outward from the door, the nearest communities in our directory are Washington, Green Spring and Sienna Hills.

Where the earnest money sits

Earnest money in Utah goes into a brokerage trust account or with the title company — never to the seller directly, and never into a firm's operating account. It is credited to you at closing, so it is not an extra cost, but getting it back out of a deal that falls apart depends entirely on which contract deadline you are on when it does. Ask whoever you work with at One Rate Real Estate, LLC where the deposit will be held and who releases it. The mechanics are the same at every brokerage in Washington; what varies is how clearly it gets explained. More in closing costs in St. George.

Agents currently licensed here appear above. For the wider picture, see St. George neighborhoods for where people actually buy, or the brokerage directory for who else works the county.