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Farmington, Utah Real Estate
One town, several housing markets, split by I‑15. 171 sales on record here and I live in it.
Living in Farmington
I-15 runs straight through Farmington, and it does more than move traffic. It splits the town into two different housing markets that happen to share a name.
East of the freeway, Cave Hollow runs roughly $550,000 to $1M. Some Cave Hollow addresses read as west addresses, which confuses people who are not from here, but the neighbourhood itself sits east of I-15. New construction is going in around it on the south side, and that is where the next several years of Farmington growth is heading.
West of the freeway is the other tier. Chestnut Farms, built by Symphony Homes, is the concentration of homes running $1M and above. Eagle Bay Elementary, Farmington Junior High and Farmington High serve that part of town.
South Farmington and North Centerville are also building toward each other, steadily filling the gap between the two cities. 200 East, which is also called Main Street, runs south and keeps the same road under a different name once it crosses the line into Centerville.
I live in Farmington. That is not a marketing line, it is the reason I can tell you which side of the freeway a street is on without looking it up.
We called it Mayberry
When I moved here in the early nineties we called Farmington Mayberry, and it fit. Narrow at the south end, almost no commercial at all. If you wanted a store you drove to Centerville, or up to North Farmington where there was a Kmart and a Smith's. The Kmart is gone. The Smith's is still there. A movie meant driving into Salt Lake or up to Layton.
Then Station Park went in on the west side, in the middle of town, and Farmington boomed.
Station Park is 62 acres of open-air shopping and entertainment: over 100 stores, restaurants, a Cinemark theatre, a Hyatt Place hotel, and the music and lights fountain. Ice skating in the winter, concerts, car shows. A Mercedes dealership and a Bass Pro Shop. Next to it is Farmington Station, the UTA FrontRunner commuter rail stop, which matters if you work in Salt Lake and would rather not drive it. Locals mix the two names up constantly, myself included. Station Park is the shopping; Farmington Station is the train.
From my house I am there in five minutes.
The part that surprises people is how little the rest of the town changed. Drive away from Station Park and the residential feel is intact. Around 25,000 to 26,000 people live here. It is still a small town that happens to have everything in the middle of it.
Lagoon is in Farmington, along with its water park, Lagoon-A-Beach. Farmington Canyon runs up behind the town with hiking, biking and horse trails, a road you can drive up, Farmington Pond, and a waterfall above it. The pond is stocked with trout, some largemouth bass and catfish. Out the other way, the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area comes in off the Great Salt Lake, with an aviary that runs out into the bay.
That mix is why Farmington holds its value, and it is genuinely hard to replicate in the towns either side. Money magazine put Farmington 14th on its Best Places to Live list in 2013, and 12th in 2011, largely on the recreation, the mountains and the bay, and the arrival of Station Park. Those rankings are more than a decade old now and I would not lean on them as current, but they were earned and the things that earned them are still here.
One piece of local vocabulary while you are looking. The built-on lower slope of the mountain is called the bench. People here say they want to live up on the bench, and they mean that band of homes on the lower slope, not the Rockies proper. Nobody builds that far up.
The move that defines this town
Cave Hollow is where people move up from. Chestnut Farms is where they move up to.
That single sentence describes more Farmington transactions than anything else I could tell you, and most owners sitting in it have no idea it applies to them. They bought east of the freeway some years ago, the equity built quietly, and nobody ever sat down and showed them what that equity now buys on the other side of I-15.
I have handled exactly that move. A Cave Hollow seller of mine sold and bought in Chestnut Farms.
The sequencing is the hard part, not the wanting. Buy first or sell first, what happens if they land out of order, and how to avoid being forced into a bad decision by a closing date. That is what trading up covers, and it starts with an honest number rather than a guess, which is what a real valuation is for.
How I work in Farmington
171 Farmington sales on record.
Every listing I take gets professional photography, videography and drone footage as the baseline, then a funded advertising campaign across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, distributed through LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts, Butterfly and X.
From my own advertising account: across fifteen fully funded listing campaigns, the number of people who saw each home ran from 36,000 to over 138,000. My walkthrough videos have logged 43, 52 and 53 hours of watch time on individual listings. A Zillow listing commonly collects 1,000 to 2,000 views.
I am a Principal Broker and I own my brokerage, which means when something goes sideways in a transaction there is nobody I have to go ask. The full walkthrough is on the selling process page, and selling your home covers what you get.
What Farmington homes actually are
Talking about a Farmington average price is close to useless, because the two halves of the town are different products.
Pricing a Cave Hollow home against a Chestnut Farms comparable, or the reverse, produces a number that is wrong in a direction that costs the seller real money. The freeway is the line, and any valuation that ignores it is guessing.
The same applies to the new construction going in south of Cave Hollow. New builds set their own pace, and a resale competing against a builder's incentives needs to be positioned deliberately rather than priced off the last sale on the street.
Across the last twelve months, 166 single-family homes sold in Farmington at a median of $749,950, in a median of 31 days. Prices ran from $365,000 to $3,400,000, which is the two-market split showing up in one line of data.
45 of those sold above $1 million, which is 27% of everything that traded here. More than one home in four. That is the number to hold in your head if you have been told Farmington does not have a luxury market.
Source: Wasatch Front Regional MLS, single-family sold listings, Davis County, pulled 28 September 2026.
Nearby, and how Farmington compares
Kaysville is immediately north, and its equivalent to Chestnut Farms is Sunset Equestrian Estates, in south Kaysville on the west side of I-15. It is the same price tier, with an equestrian centre in the neighbourhood and a few lots large enough to keep horses on the property. Further over, up around Mutton Hollow, homes sit on lots of an acre or more.
Centerville is immediately south, and the boundary between the two towns is getting harder to see every year as new construction fills in between North Centerville and South Farmington.
All of this sits in Davis School District, the second largest district in Utah, with around 73,000 students across 59 elementary schools, 17 junior highs and 8 high schools. In Farmington that includes Eagle Bay Elementary, Farmington Junior High and Farmington High, which opened within about the last five years. Ratings and test scores are published and easy to look up, and I would rather you read them yourself and form your own view than take an agent’s word for it. I can tell you exactly which schools serve a specific address.
Buyers looking at Farmington usually look at all three. If you are weighing them against each other, that is a conversation worth having before you tour anything, not after. Tell me what you are trying to do and I will give you the honest version, including when the answer is a town other than this one.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between east and west of I-15 in Farmington?
Price tier, mostly. East of the freeway, Cave Hollow runs roughly $550,000 to $1M. West of the freeway, Chestnut Farms and the surrounding subdivisions run $1M and above. Pricing one against the other produces a number that is wrong in a direction that costs somebody money.
Which schools serve Chestnut Farms?
Eagle Bay Elementary, Farmington Junior High and Farmington High. I can tell you which school serves a specific address, and I would encourage you to look at the schools yourself and form your own view.
Who builds in Chestnut Farms?
Symphony Homes built Chestnut Farms. There is also newer construction going in around Cave Hollow on its south side, which is where much of the next phase of Farmington growth is heading.
How many homes have you sold in Farmington?
171 on record. I also live in Farmington.
Is there a Chestnut Farms in Kaysville?
No. Chestnut Farms is a Farmington subdivision and it does not cross the city line. Kaysville's equivalent price tier is Sunset Equestrian Estates, in south Kaysville on the west side of I-15.
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