Farmington · Buying a Home
Buying a Home in Farmington
Pick the right town before the right house. Farmington, Kaysville and Centerville are three different markets and the difference decides more than any listing will.
Decide which side of the freeway you are shopping
This is the first useful thing anyone can tell you about buying here, and most buyers work it out three weeks in.
I-15 splits Farmington into two housing markets. East of the freeway, Cave Hollow runs roughly $550,000 to $1M. West of it, Chestnut Farms, built by Symphony Homes, runs $1M and up. New construction is going in around Cave Hollow on its south side.
Searching across both wastes your time and distorts your sense of value, because you are comparing homes that are not competing with each other. Some Cave Hollow addresses also read as west addresses even though the neighbourhood sits east of I-15, which quietly breaks map-based searching.
Chestnut Farms is served by Eagle Bay Elementary, Farmington Junior High and Farmington High, which opened within about the last five years.
Tell Me What You Are Looking For
What the market actually did
Over the twelve months to September 2026, 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, and 45 sales cleared $1 million.
Two things follow from that. Farmington is the most expensive of the three towns I work, above Kaysville at $655,000 and Centerville at $650,000. And only 7 of those 166 sales came in under $500,000, so if that is your ceiling this is a hard town and I will tell you so early.
31 days is fast. A property you find on a Saturday may be under contract by the following weekend, which changes how you need to be set up before you start looking rather than after.
Source: Wasatch Front Regional MLS, single-family sold listings, Davis County, pulled 28 September 2026.
What you are buying besides the house
Station Park sits in the middle of town on the west side: 62 acres of shopping, restaurants, a Cinemark theatre and a Hyatt Place hotel, with the fountain, ice skating in winter, concerts and car shows. Beside it, Farmington Station is a UTA FrontRunner stop into Salt Lake. A Mercedes dealership and a Bass Pro Shop are there too.
Farmington Canyon runs up behind the town with hiking, biking and horse trails, a road you can drive up, Farmington Pond stocked with trout, bass and catfish, and a waterfall above it. The Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area comes in off the Great Salt Lake with an aviary running out into it. Lagoon and its water park, Lagoon-A-Beach, are here.
Around 25,000 to 26,000 people live here. Money magazine put Farmington 14th on its Best Places to Live list in 2013 and 12th in 2011. Those rankings are more than a decade old and I would not sell on them, but the things that earned them are still standing.
One piece of local vocabulary: the built-on lower slope of the mountain is called the bench. People here say they want to live up on the bench.
How I represent a buyer
I have sold more than 1,300 homes across my career, the majority seller side, which is an odd thing for a buyer’s agent to say and exactly why it helps you. I have spent decades on the other side of these negotiations and I know what a listing agent is telling their seller about your offer.
I am a Certified Negotiation Expert, a designation few agents hold. I am also a Principal Broker and I own my brokerage, so nothing in your transaction waits on somebody else’s sign-off.
My son Brandon is our licensed buyer specialist and has been around this business far longer than his licence, starting out inspecting HUD and bank-owned properties.
You are covered by the Buyer Satisfaction Guarantee: if you are not satisfied within 24 months I will buy the home back or sell it for free. Conditions apply.
If you have a home to sell first
Most Farmington purchases are also a sale, and the sequencing is where people get caught. Sell first and you know exactly what you have but may move twice. Buy first and you carry two payments. We work it out on paper before anything is committed.
If you are moving up within Farmington, trading up covers the Cave Hollow to Chestnut Farms move specifically. Start with what your current home is worth.
Tell me what you are looking for and I will tell you honestly whether Farmington fits your range, and which side of the freeway to be searching. More on the town is on the Farmington page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do homes cost in Farmington?
166 single-family homes sold over the twelve months to September 2026 at a median of $749,950, ranging from $365,000 to $3,400,000. It is the most expensive of the three towns I work.
How expensive is Farmington?
It is the most expensive of the three towns I work. A median of $749,950 last year, 45 sales above a million dollars, a top sale of $3,400,000, and only 7 of 166 sales under $500,000. I will tell you that straight rather than spend six weeks proving it.
What is the difference between east and west of I-15?
Price tier, and it is the most useful thing to know before you start. Cave Hollow east runs roughly $550,000 to $1M. Chestnut Farms and its neighbours west run $1M and up. Searching both at once distorts your sense of value.
How fast do homes sell here?
A median of 31 days over the last twelve months. A home you see on a Saturday can be under contract the following weekend, so being set up before you start looking matters more than it does in a slower market.
Is there a train into Salt Lake?
Yes. Farmington Station is a UTA FrontRunner stop beside Station Park. Neither Kaysville nor Centerville has one.
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