Single-family Cedar City in December, year over year. The Iron County MLS, the honest read. This was the busiest closing month December has produced in this dataset.
Every figure below is Cedar City single-family residential for December 2025, set against December 2024. Same month, one year apart.
Scope and source
Cedar City single-family residential. December 2025 compared to December 2024. Closed transactions only.
Based on information from the Iron County Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service for the period 12/1/2025 through 12/31/2025.
Median sale price
$460,000 +2% YoY
Up modestly from $449,950 last December. The middle of the market held its ground into year-end.
Closed sales
54 +58%
Single-family homes closed in December, up from 34 a year ago. The biggest December closing count in this dataset.
Active inventory
281 +22% YoY
Homes available, up from 230 last December. Inventory eased off the summer peak but stayed elevated relative to last winter.
Days on market
93 +10 days
Average days from list to under contract, up from 83 a year ago. December always carries a longer DOM; this year ran on schedule.
New listings
42 +16%
New single-family listings hit the market in December, up modestly from 36 a year ago. Holiday-season seller flow stayed light, as expected.
Percent of list price
98% Down 1 point
Sellers closed at about ninety-eight percent of list, a point softer than last December. Across all residential, the average home traded roughly seven thousand under list.
Average sale price
$490,366 -9% YoY
Down from $541,235 last December. December 2024 had a few high-end closings that pulled the average up disproportionately; this December was more balanced.
Under contract
41 +5%
Single-family homes that went under contract during the month, up from 39. The pipeline carried into January with momentum.
Sold dollar volume
$26.5M +43%
Total single-family dollar volume closed in December, up from $18.4M. The big closing month drove the volume.
The full picture
Every metric, December 2025 vs December 2024
Metric
December 2024
December 2025
Change
Median sale price
$449,950
$460,000
up 2%
Average sale price
$541,235
$490,366
down 9%
Closed sales
34
54
up 58%
Sold dollar volume
$18.4M
$26.5M
up 43%
Active inventory
230
281
up 22%
New listings
36
42
up 16%
Under contract
39
41
up 5%
Days on market (sold)
83
93
up 10 days
Days to close
126
132
up 4%
Avg days active listings sit
174
181
up 4%
Percent of list price
99%
98%
down 1 point
The picture
Cedar City, 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.
Median price, year over year
December 2025 against December 2024, single-family median sale price.
Market at a glance
The busiest December this dataset has tracked.
December produced fifty-four single-family closings, the biggest December count in this dataset and fifty-eight percent ahead of last December. Volume came in forty-three percent above last December. The median sat just above last year’s, and the under-contract pipeline carried into January at multi-month highs.
That kind of year-end surge usually has a financing-cost story behind it, and this year is no exception: the easing cycle that began in September has finally pushed thirty-year mortgage quotes into a range that motivated waiting buyers to act. For the short read on where your home fits, my what is my home worth in Cedar City page is the fastest start.
The clean reads against last December: closed sales up fifty-eight, dollar volume up forty-three, median up two, percent-of-list down one. The dollar-volume bump came almost entirely from the sales count rather than from any price change.
The one softening was the discount line. The all-residential dollar gap widened modestly, which says buyers in December had room to negotiate on price even with the easier financing math. Sellers traded a point of list-price discipline for the certainty of a December close.
If you are selling
If your home was on the shelf, December finally moved you.
December’s closing burst was concentrated on homes that had been sitting longer than median. The cleared-the-list inventory bias of a year-end surge gave older listings their best window of the year. New launches got the benefit of less competition but less buyer flow to convert it; the older listings got the benefit of finally being someone’s answer.
The rate cycle finally showed up in December’s closings.
Two and possibly three Fed cuts now compounding into mortgage quotes made the December financing math meaningfully better than where the year started. Buyers who had been waiting on rates got their answer, and the December closing pace reflected that decision. The buyers who got the best deals were the ones who wrote in early December rather than waiting until January with a stronger pipeline behind them.
Holiday quiet on the listing side, busy on the closing side.
The seasonal pattern held on the seller side: new listings stayed light through the holiday weeks. The unusual part was the buyer side, which produced the strongest December closings in the dataset. The combination of a deep existing shelf and the rate-cycle pass-through is what made it possible.
Looking ahead
January 2026 inherits an unusually strong pipeline.
The under-contract count carrying into January is solid, and the financing math is the friendliest it has been in two years. That sets up a January that should outperform the typical post-holiday slow month, though the calendar still works against any one month at the start of the year.
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