An Ivins master-planned resort
Living at Black Desert Resort
Black Desert sits on black lava at the east edge of Ivins. Green fairways cut through the basalt (dark lava rock) and a working resort sits at the center. The newest homes in town are here. Today they are resort condos, with estate lots to come, and they share a view of Red Mountain and the walls of Snow Canyon.
New to the area? Start with the Ivins guide, then come back for the lava.
Current listings
Homes for sale at Black Desert Resort
These listings come straight from the MLS and cover the whole master plan, which is the full plan for the resort. The Villages condominiums, the resort-core residences, and every Black Desert listing on the Ivins and Santa Clara sides are all in one search. In this new market, the developer's own releases and resales sell side by side. Check what kind of home each listing is before you look at its price.
No homes available? Be sure to check out all Ivins listings.
Want the map view? Open the full Black Desert search. Selling instead? Start with what your home is worth.
Listing information comes from the local MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
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Life on the lava
A working resort for a front yard
Nothing else in Ivins looks like this. On the west side of town, the houses tuck into the desert, but Black Desert put a resort right on top of it. Green fairways run through black basalt and the hotel and its restaurants hum at the center. The residences line up along the lava, with Red Mountain on one side and Snow Canyon's sandstone on the other. The contrast is the whole point, and in person it lives up to it.
Days here follow the resort's schedule. Breakfast is a walk, not a drive, and the spa, the pools, and the practice greens are downstairs or down the path. On tournament weeks the place fills with crowds, cameras, and the best players in the world at the end of your street. The rest of Ivins is a quiet desert town, and this corner of it is not, on purpose.
I'll be upfront about the trade. You are buying into a resort that is still being built, so in places construction is part of the view. The homes are condos and suites, not houses with yards and garages. Want a lock-and-leave home (one you can close up and walk away from) on the lava, with a working resort attached? There is exactly one address in town for that, and this is it.
Inside the master plan
Three kinds of homes under one name
Black Desert is a master plan (one big plan for the whole area), with about 1,050 residences planned when it is fully built. It sells in phases, not in plats (the official lot maps). What matters most is which kind of home you are looking at. The three kinds here are priced differently, live differently, and resell differently, and all three show up in the single Black Desert search above.
Home type 01
The Villages at Black Desert Condos
The Villages is the condominium heart of the plan, and it is the kind of home most buyers actually buy. These are resort condominiums built from 2020 onward, with floor plans from compact, suite-sized homes up to multi-bedroom residences. They are sold ready to furnish, so you can lock up and leave. In Washington County MLS records, sales have clustered in the $600,000s, and list prices run from the high $500,000s to about $1.15 million. The final release of phase one is underway, so the developer's homes and resales are on sale side by side.
Home type 02
Resort-core residences & suites
The resort-core units sit closest to the clubhouse, the restaurants, and the spa, and they live most like a hotel you happen to own. The resort itself runs 447 rooms and suites. How you can use an owner unit in and around that core differs from building to building. Some suit full-time living, and others are set up around personal use plus the resort's rental programs. For this kind of home, reading that building's terms matters more than the floor plan.
Home type 03
Single-family estate lots Planned
The plan includes roughly 32 single-family estate homesites (lots for a stand-alone house), the rarest kind of home on the property. Each one is big enough for a custom home and faces the lava field and the fairway. Everything else in the resort is attached homes. Releases follow the developer's phases, so lots come up in batches, not in a steady stream. If you are waiting for a detached home on the lava, tell me early and I can flag a release for you.
The master plan reaches toward the Santa Clara line, so some Black Desert listings are recorded on the Santa Clara side. Phase names also change as the developer releases new buildings. Don't let the names throw you. Every kind of home shows up in the one Black Desert search above, and I will tell you plainly which building and which terms a listing carries.
Golf & the Tour
Weiskopf's last course, on lava
The golf course is why the world knows this address. It is Tom Weiskopf's 73rd and final design: 19 holes, with a bonus par-3 (a short hole) that settles bets on the way in. The course runs through black basalt with the red cliffs standing behind every green. Golfweek has ranked it the number-one course you can play in Utah and among the best you can play in the country. It plays as dramatic as it photographs.
Then there is something almost no neighborhood can say: the Tour comes to your street. In October 2024, Black Desert hosted Utah's first PGA Tour event in more than 60 years, and the Tour has come back each fall since. That means tournament setup, television crews, and top players a short walk from the residences. For owners, those weeks are full of energy, and they are also busy. I would rather you know both before you buy.
Golf access for owners comes through the resort, not automatically with the deed (the paper that shows you own the home). The terms differ by kind of home and by phase. Check the current terms for the residence you are considering, and I will help you get them in writing.
19 holes on basalt
Weiskopf's final design threads green fairways through black lava, with a bonus 19th hole and the red cliffs behind every shot.
A Tour venue
Host to the PGA Tour each fall, bringing tournament weeks, galleries, and television to the resort's doorstep.
Ranked #1 in Utah
Golfweek's top public-access course in the state, ranked among the best you can play nationally.
Course conditions, tee access, and event schedules change; check the resort's current information before you plan around them.
Resort highlights
Six things only this address offers
Every resort community makes promises, but Black Desert can point to real things. It has the course, the Tour, a working hotel, the newest homes in Ivins, the lava setting, and a mix of homes nothing else in town has.
Green-on-black golf
Tom Weiskopf's final design, 19 holes through the basalt, ranked Golfweek's #1 course you can play in Utah.
The Tour at the door
A PGA Tour stop each fall since October 2024, the first Tour event in Utah in more than 60 years.
A working resort downstairs
Restaurants, a wellness spa, pools, and 447 rooms and suites operating on the property, not promised for later.
The newest homes in Ivins
Every recorded residence here was built in 2020 or later. These are the youngest homes anywhere in town.
Snow Canyon, six minutes
The state park entrance sits ~6 min up the road, with Red Mountain and the sandstone walls framing the whole property.
Easy to lock up and leave, rare in Ivins
Black Desert has condos and suites in a town of almost all detached homes. It is the one true lock-and-leave address on this side of the valley.
Homes & pricing
Priced like a resort, not a subdivision
Price this place like a subdivision and every number looks wrong. The condominium residences run compact, with recorded floor plans around suite size, and the price per square foot is far above the Ivins norm. That is because you are buying the resort, the course, and the address along with the walls. In Washington County MLS records, recent list prices have run from the high $500,000s to about $1.15 million, and sales have clustered in the $600,000s.
This market has two sources of homes. The developer is still releasing new units, and the last phase-one units are for sale now. Early owners are reselling right alongside them, and each side is priced with the other in mind. That is normal for a young resort. It pays to look at both. A resale can come in under a release, and a release can carry terms a resale cannot. When it is fully built, the plan calls for roughly 1,050 residences plus the estate lots, so this market will keep changing for years.
Look at the kind of home first and the price second. Which building is it? How big is the floor plan? What is the view over the lava and fairways? What use terms come with it? Then check everything against the live listings, because in a resort built in phases only the freshest numbers count.
At Black Desert you are not buying square footage. You are buying a working resort with your name on one door of it.
Trails & outdoors
Red rock past the last green
The resort holds the lava, and the public land holds everything else. Snow Canyon's trail system starts six minutes up Snow Canyon Drive, Red Mountain stands over the whole property, and the Santa Clara River Reserve adds more trails to the southwest. Here they are by how hard each one is.
Resort paths (easy)
Paths thread the property itself, between the residences, the course, and the main resort area, with the lava fields as the scenery.
Snow Canyon State Park (all levels)
About six minutes to the entrance: Jenny's Canyon, the Petrified Dunes, the lava-tube caves, and the paved Whiptail trail through the sandstone.
Red Mountain (hard)
The wall above the property. Routes onto the plateau are a genuine climb, with the whole lava field and the resort laid out below you at the top.
Santa Clara River Reserve (easy to moderate)
About nine minutes southwest: the Anasazi Valley petroglyph trail, Cove Wash, and miles of desert singletrack through the 6,500-acre reserve.
Farther afield, Zion National Park is about an hour east, Sand Hollow's water is roughly thirty-five minutes, and Las Vegas is about two hours southwest. The wider outdoor picture for the area lives in the Ivins guide.
Trail details come from Utah State Parks, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Santa Clara River Reserve. Check seasonal access and conditions before you go.
Errands & drive times
The east-side advantage, in minutes
Black Desert sits on the east edge of town, which gives it the shortest drive in Ivins to everything in Santa Clara and St. George. Dinner is downstairs, groceries are seven minutes away, and the hospital trip is the fastest in town. Times are measured from the resort entry off Snow Canyon Parkway.
| The errand | Where it happens | From the resort |
|---|---|---|
| Dinner out | The resort's own restaurants | On the property |
| Full grocery run | Harmons, Santa Clara | ~7 min |
| Town errands | Ivins City Center, 55 N Main | ~5 min |
| State park day | Snow Canyon State Park entrance | ~6 min |
| A show night | Tuacahn Center for the Arts | ~8 min |
| Trailhead | Santa Clara River Reserve | ~9 min |
| Healthcare | St. George Regional Hospital | ~20 min |
| Freeway on-ramp | I-15 at Bluff Street, St. George | ~14 min |
| Flights | St. George Regional Airport (SGU) | ~30 min |
Farther out, Zion National Park is about an hour east on I-15, and Sand Hollow Reservoir is roughly thirty-five minutes away. Las Vegas and its international airport are about two hours southwest. The full day-trip map lives in the Ivins guide.
Schools & education
Schools, by the facts
Black Desert Resort is part of the Washington County School District. The area is generally served by Red Mountain Elementary (grades K-5), which sits in Ivins at 263 East 200 South. From there, students go on to Lava Ridge Intermediate (grades 6-7) in Santa Clara. Snow Canyon Middle (grades 8-9) and Snow Canyon High (grades 10-12) in St. George come after that. Most of Ivins follows the same path. Because the resort sits on the east side, the Santa Clara schools are among the closest in town.
School boundaries can change as Ivins and Santa Clara grow. For any home you are serious about, check the current school assignment with the district instead of guessing from a map. GreatSchools and Niche are outside sources, and both publish school data you can weigh yourself.
I cover the bigger education picture for the area in the Ivins guide.
Resort ownership
What owning inside a working resort actually means
Black Desert is the one property in Ivins where the deed comes with a hotel attached, and that changes the questions a careful buyer asks. Owning here is closer to owning inside a working hotel business than inside a subdivision. The resort runs the restaurants, the spa, the pools, and the course around you, and your unit's paperwork, not the brochure, sets how you may use it.
Three things differ the most from building to building and phase to phase. First, how a unit may be used: full-time living, personal use, or joining the resort's rental programs. Second, what resort and golf access come with ownership, and on what terms. Third, what the developer's remaining building will put next to your window. None of these is a reason to walk away, but all are reasons to read before you sign. Two identical floor plans in different buildings here can carry really different ownership.
The calendar matters too. Tournament week brings the PGA Tour each fall, with the crowds and traffic control that come with it. Building phases also move around the property as the resort grows. Owners who love it here love exactly that energy. If you want silence, be honest with yourself before you buy into a resort. I'll be upfront about which buildings sit closest to the action.
What I pin down before you buy into the resort
- The specific building's use and rental-program terms, in writing, including whether Ivins' resort-zone short-term rules apply to that unit.
- What golf, spa, and resort access really come with the ownership, and on what current terms, not just what the marketing implies.
- The building plan around the unit. Which phases are planned next to it? What will your view look like when it is finished, not just today?
- How the unit's financing works. Condominiums inside a working resort can carry different lending rules than a standard home. I am a lender too, and it helps to know this early.
This is general guidance, not a legal reading of any building's governing documents or programs. Check the current terms for any specific residence with the resort, your own professionals, and me before you rely on them.
What locals know
The details I would slow down and check
Black Desert works best for a buyer who looks at it as a resort first and real estate second. Before you fall for any one residence here, I would walk you through four things: the building, the terms, the calendar, and what is still being built.
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Different kinds of homes cannot be compared with each other. A suite condo, a multi-bedroom residence, and estate ground are three different markets under one resort name. Compare a home only with recent sales of the same kind before you trust the number.
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The paperwork sets what you own. Use terms, rental-program rules, and resort access differ from building to building, and two identical floor plans can carry different ownership. Read yours before you fall for the view.
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Know both sides of the calendar. Tournament weeks are full of energy and busy in equal measure, with crowds and traffic control around the property. Visit during one before you decide which side you are buying.
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Look at the finished plan, not just today. Roughly 1,050 residences are planned when it is finished, so ask what will be built next to your window in the coming phases. Today's open view may be tomorrow's neighbor.
Buy or sell here
The buyer side and the seller side
Buying at Black Desert
Black Desert Resort spreads across black lava fields on the east edge of Ivins, off Snow Canyon Parkway where Ivins meets Santa Clara. The Snow Canyon State Park entrance is about six minutes up the road. The main resort area, the golf course, and the residences all share the lava, with Red Mountain and the red cliffs as the backdrop.
These are resort homes, not a regular subdivision. There are condominium residences in the Villages at Black Desert, built from 2020 onward, and suite-style units near the main resort area. A small number of single-family estate homesites are planned as the master plan is finished. Floor plans run from compact suites to multi-bedroom residences, so work out which kind of home you are looking at before you compare prices.
Golf access comes through the resort, not automatically with the deed, and the terms differ by kind of home and by phase. The course itself is 19 holes of Tom Weiskopf's final design, routed through the lava, and it hosts the PGA Tour each fall. Check the current access terms for the residence you are considering before you count on them.
In Washington County MLS records, recent list prices have run from the high $500,000s to about $1.15 million across the condominiums, and sales have been in the $600,000s. The planned estate homesites will be their own market above that. The price per square foot runs well above the Ivins norm because this is resort real estate. Check any figure against the live listings. For a citywide comparison, my 2025 market report puts the Ivins median sale price at $721,500.
Black Desert Resort is part of the Washington County School District. The resort is generally served by Red Mountain Elementary (grades K-5) in Ivins. From there, students go on to Lava Ridge Intermediate (grades 6-7) in Santa Clara. Snow Canyon Middle (grades 8-9) and Snow Canyon High (grades 10-12) in St. George come after that. School boundaries can change as Ivins and Santa Clara grow, so for any home you are serious about, check the current assignment with the district.
The answer depends on the building and the phase, so it is not a simple yes or no. Ivins limits short-term rentals to its resort-zoned areas, and Black Desert's buildings carry their own use and rental-program terms. If renting matters to you, verify that unit's eligibility and the current program terms in writing before you buy.
Ready to look? See what is on the market or tell me what you are after.
Selling at Black Desert
Sort your home by kind before you price it. A suite condo, a larger residence, and estate ground cannot be compared with each other, and none of them can be compared with detached homes in Ivins either. Resort resales also sell alongside the developer's own new releases. The recent sales that matter are the newest ones inside the resort, set next to what the developer is releasing now.
When you list with me, your home is featured on MovingUtah where it fits best. It shows first on the Ivins listings and on this Black Desert Resort page, where buyers are already looking. The get featured page explains how it works. If you are thinking about selling, I would be glad to talk it through with you.
I start with the most recent sales inside Black Desert itself and match them to the same building and the same kind of home. Then I adjust for the floor, the view over the lava and fairways, the condition, and the phase's release pricing. In a new resort market the developer's current releases matter as much as resales, so I look at both before I name a number.
Yes, but on a purchase I take one role only, never both. I can work as your real estate agent or as your lender, and the role is disclosed before we move forward.
Thinking about it? Start with your number or see how featuring works.
Keep exploring Ivins
Want a closer look at Black Desert?
Buying? I can pull what is for sale in the resort now, releases and resales together. I will pin down the building, the use terms, and the golf access before you compare a single price. Selling? I will price and market your residence against the right kind of home inside the resort. I will time it against the developer's releases, not against detached Ivins homes.
Selling at Black Desert Resort
Want to sell your residence at Black Desert Resort? List it with Scott Buehler and get featured on Moving Utah.
I will not tell you I am the best agent, and I will not promise a price. You get honest pricing that separates suite condos, resort residences, and estate ground, and compares your resale with the developer's current releases.