Living in Casitas Del Sol

Casitas Del Sol is a small group of single-story townhomes on Middleton Drive, in the Middleton neighborhood, northeast of downtown and just north of Interstate 15. It is central St. George, not a far-flung new subdivision. The units are at 2056 East Middleton Drive, north of the Virgin River. The Red Cliffs Drive shopping area and the freeway are both a few minutes away.

What you get here is simple, and I will not dress it up. These are single-level attached townhomes with the yard work handled. They were built in the late 1990s and are priced well below the detached-home streets around them. You give up a private lot. In return you get short trips to errands and a floor plan with no stairs, and that is exactly the trade some buyers want to make.

What quietly sells the location is how much sits within a short drive. Red Cliffs Mall and the stores on Red Cliffs Drive are minutes southwest, across the freeway, and the St. George Boulevard freeway interchange is right there. The Middleton Wash Trail links the neighborhood to the citywide Virgin River trail system. It is a plain, well-connected corner of town.

Casitas Del Sol has one kind of home, so it is easy to compare. County parcel records show roughly 48 units, all single-level attached townhomes recorded in 1997. The ones that come up for sale generally run about 1,300 to 1,600 square feet, with two or three bedrooms, two baths, and an attached two-car garage.

Every unit is broadly similar, so value comes down to the small things. Which floor plan is it? How much of the 1997 finish has been updated? Where does it sit in the plat, and how does the unit feel to live in? In a community this size, the right two or three similar sales matter far more than any neighborhood average.

On price, single-level townhomes in this plat have tended to sell well below the St. George median (the middle price). The gap from one unit to the next is mostly about condition and updates. Prices move, so ask me for current numbers when you are shopping.

Casitas Del Sol is served by the Washington County School District. On the district's map this part of St. George is in Sandstone Elementary and the Pine View group of schools. Students go on to Pine View Intermediate for grades 6-7 and Pine View Middle School for grades 8-9. They finish at Pine View High School (grades 10-12). Check the assigned school for a specific unit on Middleton Drive with the district, and do not guess.

Boundaries can shift as the district adjusts them, so check the current assignment for any home you are serious about directly with Washington County School District. For outside school data, GreatSchools and Niche both publish numbers you can weigh yourself. Utah Tech University is about twelve minutes away.

Casitas Del Sol has something its newer competitors cannot claim. It sits on one of the oldest road routes in St. George. Middleton was settled in 1863. Middleton Drive traces the old highway that carried traffic through this side of town long before the freeway existed. That highway ran on the east side of the old Dixie Highway tunnel. When people say a neighborhood has roots, this is the literal version.

That history is more than a nice story. It means the surrounding streets are established and the trees are grown in, and the roads and utilities have been in place for decades. You are buying into a settled part of the city, not a bare new building site. The townhomes came later, in 1997, inside that old neighborhood. That is a big part of why they can put you in the middle of the city at a townhome price.