What is a Cottonwood Heights home worth?
Zillow puts the typical Cottonwood Heights home at $778,589 in data through August 31, 2026, up 3.3 percent in a year and about 37 percent above Zillow's Salt Lake County figure of $568,202. Homes went pending in a median 16 days. The Census Bureau's 2020 to 2024 survey put the median owner occupied value at $694,100.
County records show how much that blends: 1980s condos near 750 square feet, 1960s ramblers around 1,300 square feet on fifth acre lots, and 1990s houses over 3,500 square feet on lots approaching half an acre.
In a city where a 750 square foot condo and a 4,000 square foot house share one average, the average is the least useful number.
How do Cottonwood Heights neighborhoods differ?
Cottonwood Heights splits into a large core of 1950s to 1970s subdivisions, a ring of bigger 1980s and 1990s homes, a handful of condo and townhome projects, and very little new construction: county records show only two subdivisions with an average build year after 2005.
Riviera Heights
The largest recorded subdivision in the city, with about 583 homes built mostly around 1970 on lots near a fifth of an acre. Houses average about 1,570 square feet in county records. With that many similar homes, sales inside the plat usually carry the comp grid, and condition and updating decide where a house lands.
Greenfield Village
Roughly 524 homes whose build years center on 1960, on lots of about 0.22 acre. County records put the average house near 1,330 square feet, among the smallest in the city. Kitchens, baths and basements finished since the 1960s are what separate one sale from the next.
Mill Hollow Estates
About 261 homes built from the late 1970s through 1997, averaging 1993, on quarter acre lots. At about 2,780 square feet, these houses run nearly twice the size of the 1960s stock nearby, so a comp pulled from an older plat a few blocks away needs large size and age adjustments.
Old Mill Estates
Named for the Old Mill, a former paper mill Wikipedia places in the city's northeast corner. About 88 homes from 1990 to 1994 sit on lots averaging 0.38 acre, with houses near 3,660 square feet. Few sales happen in a plat this size, so Weston often has to widen the search to similar 1990s homes elsewhere in the city.
Giverny
One of the only modern subdivisions in Cottonwood Heights: about 163 homes with an average build year of 2019 on 0.16 acre lots, roughly 2,240 square feet each. Resales here compete with each other more than with the 1970s houses around them, so recent Giverny sales come first.
Orchard Country Woods
A 232 unit condo project built 1979 to 1983, with units near 756 square feet in county records. The best comps are resales inside the project or in other early 1980s condos nearby, and an FHA loan here also depends on the project's FHA approval status.
Golden Hills
About 240 homes with an average build year of 1974 on 0.27 acre lots, with houses near 1,810 square feet. Lots run larger than in the 1960s core, so lot size and usable yard can move value as much as the house does.
More Cottonwood Heights subdivisions
- Shadow Ridge: 184 condos from 1983 at about 750 square feet; small units sell against other 1980s condos.
- Waterside: A 1985 condo project of 132 units averaging 744 square feet.
- Stone Haven: 132 attached units from 2002 to 2003, near 1,370 square feet: newer than most city condos.
- Southland Terrace: About 200 homes, mostly 1970, on lots near 0.28 acre.
- Oakview Estates: Roughly 208 homes from the 1970s; houses average about 1,640 square feet.
- Cherry Hills: Mid 1960s houses near 1,280 square feet on fifth acre lots.
- Brighton Hills: 186 homes averaging 1975 construction and about 1,860 square feet.
- Lazy Bar: 169 homes built mostly in the 1960s; a few rebuilds since then widen the price spread.
- Southampton: A late 1970s plat on 0.16 acre lots, small for its era here.
- Nutree: 139 homes from the early 1970s on 0.22 acre lots.
- Nutree West: 95 houses, slightly newer and on smaller lots than neighboring Nutree.
- Top of the World: 139 homes, mid 1970s, averaging about 2,280 square feet on 0.28 acre.
- Somerset Estates and Somerset South: Two plats of about 233 homes from around 1980, houses near 2,100 square feet.
- Alta Hills: Late 1970s homes on lots averaging a third of an acre.
- Esquire Estates: 108 homes, average year 1971, about 1,620 square feet.
- Rolling Knolls: Late 1960s ramblers around 1,360 square feet; condition drives most of the spread.
- Union View: Early 1960s houses near 1,300 square feet on 0.21 acre.
- Cottonwood Slopes: 100 homes centered on 1965, mostly modest in size.
- Sherwood Hills: About 97 homes from 1965 to 1977, larger than most of that era at nearly 2,000 square feet.
- Steffensen Heights: Mid 1950s houses on lots averaging a third of an acre: more land than house.
- Hillsborough Estates: 94 homes from about 1981 on 0.27 acre, houses near 2,380 square feet.
- Scottsdale Ridge: Late 1990s plat of 93 homes near 2,880 square feet on 0.30 acre lots.
- Willow Hill: 90 homes from the late 1970s on fifth acre lots.
- Overlook at Old Mill: 65 homes from about 1997, roughly 3,220 square feet each.
- Blue Grass Acres: Early 1970s houses near 1,520 square feet on 0.23 acre.
- Enchanted Hills: 81 homes with a wide age range; the oldest county build year is 1928.
- East Cottonwood Heights: 1950s and 1960s plat of 79 homes, with one 2018 build mixed in.
- Pondoray Park: 79 homes built 1962 to 1971, about 1,320 square feet.
- Apple Valley: 70 homes on lots averaging 0.30 acre, mostly early 1970s.
- Reindeer Hills: Mid 1970s homes on a third of an acre, near 1,830 square feet.
- Willow Stream Estates: 70 homes averaging 1973 on lots of about 0.26 acre.
- Newtopia Acres: Late 1960s houses near 1,400 square feet.
- Auburn Heights: 1950s homes, about 63 of them, on 0.23 acre.
- Prospector Hill and Prospector Hills: Two plats of 124 homes on lots from 0.36 to 0.51 acre, houses over 3,100 square feet.
- Crestview Estates: Mid 1970s, about 1,730 square feet per house.
- Hidden Oak Estates: 61 homes on lots near 0.38 acre; land is a big share of value.
- McLains Mountain: Mid 1980s homes around 2,910 square feet on lots averaging 0.44 acre.
- Oakcreek Estates: 55 homes, average build year 1973, on 0.29 acre.
- Butler Hills: Mostly 1970s houses on smaller 0.18 acre lots.
- The Oaks at Wasatch: About 104 townhomes from 1988 to 2000 near 1,800 square feet; HOA documents matter.
- Brighton Point: 53 homes on lots averaging half an acre, among the city's largest.
- Towncrest Terrace: Late 1950s plat of 52 homes near 1,300 square feet.
- Artists View Heights: 51 homes, average year 1971, on quarter acre lots.
- Scottish Heights: Mid 1980s homes on 0.36 acre, near 2,220 square feet.
- Skyline Manor: 50 houses from the 1960s and 1970s, about 1,300 square feet.
- Finlandia: A 1977 plat on lots near a third of an acre.
- Scandia Village: 48 condo units built in 1975, about 1,390 square feet each.
- Granduer Estates: Spelled this way on the plat; late 1970s homes on 0.19 acre.
- Pine Mountain: 47 homes from about 1978, close to 2,000 square feet.
- Viewcrest Park: Late 1970s houses near 1,920 square feet on quarter acre lots.
- Brighton Ridge: 45 homes from 1984 to 2005 averaging about 2,550 square feet.
- Fyandale: Built 1957 to 1961; 45 compact houses near 1,270 square feet.
- De Ville Acres: 44 homes from 1959 and 1960, about 1,150 square feet.
- Ellison Woods: Mostly 1960s homes on 0.24 acre.
- Mill Hollow Ridge: 44 homes from 1989 to 1991, about 2,570 square feet.
- Monte Luca: Attached homes from 2001 to 2006 near 2,070 square feet.
- Willow Brook Farm: Early 1990s homes over 3,500 square feet on nearly half acre lots.
- Riverwood: 43 homes from about 1980 on 0.42 acre, around 3,270 square feet.
- Summer Oaks: Early 1980s homes near 2,260 square feet on fifth acre lots.
- Willowcrest: Build years span 1957 to 2000, so ages vary house to house.
- Bellwood Acres: 41 homes, mostly early 1960s, on quarter acre lots.
- Whitmore Manor Estates: Built 1991 and 1992, about 2,610 square feet each.
- Canyon Racquet Club: 40 condos from 1981, larger than most at about 1,890 square feet.
- Cherry Tree Lane: 1960s and early 1970s houses near 1,690 square feet.
- Little Cottonwood Valley: 40 homes on lots averaging 0.47 acre, mostly late 1960s.
- Mountain Estates: 39 homes, mostly 1970s, on 0.24 acre.
- Pine Cove East: Late 1970s plat of 38 homes near 1,900 square feet.
- Hillside Village: 37 small lot homes, about 0.13 acre, mostly mid 1980s.
- Towne and Country Village: 37 homes with build years from 1959 to 1997.
- Cottonwood Ridge: 33 homes, mostly early 1960s, on 0.28 acre.
- Watson Hollow: 33 homes from 2018 to 2022 on 0.37 acre lots: new construction is rare here.
- Brooktree Estates: 1963 to 1968 houses near 1,240 square feet.
- Royal Lane: 32 homes on lots averaging 0.70 acre, the largest average in county records here.
- Country Manor: Mid 1960s houses on 0.26 acre, about 1,590 square feet.
- Danish Hills: 31 homes from the 1980s on lots over a third of an acre.
- Belmont Terrace: 29 attached homes from 1980, about 1,170 square feet.
What drives home values in Cottonwood Heights?
Size and age come first, then land. Subdivision averages in county records run from about 1,150 to 4,000 square feet and from fifth acre lots to 0.70 acre, and most plats were built out before 1985. The city sits between Big and Little Cottonwood canyons, where State Routes 190 and 210 enter near its east edge, and buyers who want the ski roads close compete for a fixed supply of homes.
Hillside lots carry rules of their own. The city's sensitive lands standards (zoning code section 19.72) address landslide, rockfall and fault hazards, and a 2022 planning memo describes a general ban on building over slopes steeper than 30 percent. Canyons School District serves the city, and Brighton High is the only public high school inside city limits.
Which appraisals does Weston do in Cottonwood Heights?
Weston handles purchase and refinance appraisals, estate and date of death values, divorce and settlement work, tax assessment appeals, PMI removal and pre listing reports in Cottonwood Heights (see services). Weston is FHA approved; with the typical home above the $637,100 county FHA limit, FHA buyers here often look at 1960s ramblers and condos. Reports are UAD 3.6 ready. Every 2025 report went out on time (100 percent), and 2026 turn times average under five days, so plan on about a week from order to delivered report, and usually less.
Questions Cottonwood Heights owners ask
What is my house worth in Cottonwood Heights?
Zillow's typical value was $778,589 through August 31, 2026, but that mixes 750 square foot condos with 3,500 square foot houses on half acre lots. An appraisal measures your house and lot against closed sales of similar homes, which is what a lender or court will accept.
How much does a home appraisal cost in Cottonwood Heights?
FairPriceCheck puts most Utah home appraisals at $400 to $800. The fee depends on the report type, the home's size and how much sales research it takes. Weston quotes it before starting.
What does a date of death appraisal do for heirs?
It sets the home's value on the day the owner died, using sales from around that date rather than today's. Heirs, executors and their tax preparers use it for the estate's records and the stepped up basis when the house later sells.
How can I check a Utah appraiser's license?
Use the state's real estate and appraiser license search at secure.utah.gov, choose Appraiser, and search by name or license number to see the license level and whether it is active.