Market Trends Quarter 4 - 2025 Prepared by: John Hallman Engel & Völkers Golden Isles
A Word From Us. Greetings and Happy New Year from St. Simons Island and the Golden Isles. January has been treating us kindly so far, with sunshine and mild temperatures, highs in the 60s and 70s which is always a welcome start to the year. As we look back at the fourth quarter of 2025, Glynn County experienced a 12.5% decrease in homes sold compared to the third quarter. Average days on market remained steady at 100 days, while the median list to sale price ratio dipped slightly to 97.9%. Although overall sales volume slowed, values continued to hold strong. The median sale price rose nearly 6% this quarter, landing at $402,500. One of the more telling indicators this quarter was the number of homes that either expired or were withdrawn from the market. In Q4, 262 properties fell into this category, compared to 164 during the same period the year prior. This was a 60% year over year increase. This shift offers a clear and realistic snapshot of market conditions as 2025 came to a close. That said, I remain optimistic. As we step into 2026, we’re already seeing encouraging signs of renewed activity, and momentum appears to be building. I’m also hopeful that interest rate cuts later this year will provide additional fuel for the market and create new opportunities for both buyers and sellers. At Engel & Völkers Golden Isles it is our mission to provide unprecedented luxury real estate brokerage services here on Saint Simons Island and throughout the Golden Isles for each of our clients. We hope you enjoy this market report and the in depth look at the many unique and beautiful neighborhoods that make up Glynn County. As always, if you have questions or would like to discuss what these trends mean for you, we’re here to help.
President Engel & Völkers Golden Isles
Contents St Simons Island Neighborhoods
4
Jekyll Island Neighborhoods
10
Sea Island Neighborhoods
15
Brunswick Neighborhoods
19
Journey of a Listing
21
St Simons Island
148
Homes Sold
$761,250
Median Closed Sales Price
5.12
Months of Inventory
109
Avg. Days on Market
Neighborhoods of St Simons Island, GA St. Simons Island, or simply St. Simons, is a barrier island and census-designated place in Glynn County, Georgia. Part of the Brunswick Metropolitan Area, it had a population of 12,743 according to the 2010 census. Located on the southeast Georgia coast between Savannah and Jacksonville, St. Simons is both a seaside resort and residential community. It is the largest of Georgia’s Golden Isles, which also include Sea Island, Jekyll Island, and Little St. Simons Island. Visitors come for its warm climate, beaches, outdoor activities, shops and restaurants, historic sites, and natural beauty. Along with its permanent population, the island attracts many visitors and part-time residents. In 2010, 26.8% of housing units were designated for seasonal or recreational use. Most development is concentrated on the southern half of the island, while the northern half remains marsh and woodland. In the northeast, Cannon’s Point Preserve offers public access to trails, historic ruins, and undisturbed maritime forest. Originally inhabited by the Creek Nation, the area was later contested by the Spanish, English, and French. Under English control, rice and cotton plantations were established using enslaved African labor, giving rise to the Gullah culture still present today. St. Simons is accessible via the F.J. Torras Causeway, and Malcolm McKinnon Airport provides general aviation service. Source: Wikipedia
Island Club
7
Homes Sold
$1,875,000 Median Closed Sales Price
3.43
Months of Inventory
96
Avg. Days on Market
Hampton Plantation
5
Homes Sold
$955,000
Median Closed Sales Price
5.38
Months of Inventory
143
Avg. Days on Market
St. Simons Heights
4
Homes Sold
$777,500
Median Closed Sales Price
6.01
Months of Inventory
51
Avg. Days on Market
East Beach
3
Homes Sold
$1,615,000
Median Closed Sales Price
7
Months of Inventory
61
Avg. Days on Market
Coast Cottages
0
Homes Sold
-
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
-
Avg. Days on Market
Sea Palms
5
Homes Sold
$875,000
Median Closed Sales Price
1.80
Months of Inventory
140
Avg. Days on Market
Hamilton Landing
2
Homes Sold
$2,000,000 Median Closed Sales Price
3.03
Months of Inventory
50
Avg. Days on Market
Harrison Pointe
1
Homes Sold
$800,000
Median Closed Sales Price
12.12
Months of Inventory
166
Avg. Days on Market
Hampton Point
2
Homes Sold
$1,387,500
Median Closed Sales Price
9.09
Months of Inventory
189
Avg. Days on Market
Frederica Golf Club
8
Homes Sold
$3,625,000 Median Closed Sales Price
2.25
Months of Inventory
152
Avg. Days on Market
Jekyll Island
9
Homes Sold
$845,500
Median Closed Sales Price
21
Months of Inventory
161
Avg. Days on Market
Neighborhoods of Jekyll Island, GA Jekyll Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County. It is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia barrier islands. The island is owned by the State of Georgia and run by a self-sustaining, selfgoverning body. Long used seasonally by indigenous peoples of the region, beginning in the colonial era, some of its lands became privately owned. A few structures still stand made of tabby, a coastal building material of crushed oyster shells. The island was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was evacuated during World War II by order of the U.S. government. In 1947 the state of Georgia acquired all the property, for security and preservation. A popular tourist destination, the island has beaches frequented by vacationers. Guided tours of the Landmark Historic District are available. Bike trails, walks along the beaches and sandbars, and Summer Waves, a water park, are among the active attractions. The historic district features numerous impressive and ambitious buildings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The island is also full of wildlife, consisting of many different mammals, reptiles, and birds living and breeding in the island's inland salt marshes. In 2018, Architectural Digest named Jekyll Island the eleventh most beautiful small town in America. In 1886, Jekyll Island was purchased by the Jekyll Island Club, which Munsey’s Magazine called “the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world….” For those who represented 1/6 of the world’s wealth at the turn of the century, the Jekyll Island Club became an exclusive retreat. Families with names like Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Pulitzer, and Baker built the elegant Clubhouse and “cottages” in Victorian architectural styles. Source: Wikipedia
Ocean Oaks at Jekyll
1
Homes Sold
$1,950,000 Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
1
Avg. Days on Market
The Cottages at Jekyll
0
Homes Sold
-
Median Closed Sales Price
4.09
Months of Inventory
-
Avg. Days on Market
Villas By The Sea
2
Homes Sold
$438,125
Median Closed Sales Price
34.84
Months of Inventory
136
Avg. Days on Market
The Moorings at Jekyll Harbor
1
Homes Sold
$610,000
Median Closed Sales Price
3.03
Months of Inventory
232
Avg. Days on Market
Plantation
2
Homes Sold
$805,500
Median Closed Sales Price
1.51
Months of Inventory
169
Avg. Days on Market
Palmetto
1
Homes Sold
$845,500
Median Closed Sales Price
3.03
Months of Inventory
189
Avg. Days on Market
Pine Grove
0
Homes Sold
-
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
-
Avg. Days on Market
Jekyll Beach
1
Homes Sold
$1,600,000 Median Closed Sales Price
9.09
Months of Inventory
132
Avg. Days on Market
Sea Island
7
Homes Sold
$5,400,000 Median Closed Sales Price
11.15
Months of Inventory
110
Avg. Days on Market
Neighborhoods of Sea Island, GA Sea Island is a privately owned, unincorporated area of Glynn County, Georgia, and is part of the Golden Isles of Georgia, which include St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island, Little St. Simons Island, and the mainland city of Brunswick. The well-visited seaside resort island is located along the Atlantic Coast just east of St. Simons Island. It lies about 60 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida, and about 60 miles south of Savannah, Georgia, and is reachable via a causeway from St. Simons Island. The Anschutz family of Denver, Colorado, owns two resorts with limited public access and maintains a gated community for around 500 single-family residences. The resorts, Sea Island Beach Club and The Cloister, are located a short distance from one another, connected by a roundabout in the middle of Sea Island Drive, the island’s main connecting road. The oceanfront Beach Club contains restaurants, a game room, a bowling alley, an ice cream shop, a bar, and three pools. Sea Island’s main hotel, The Cloister, is located on its southwestern side along the Black Banks River. It includes restaurants, 200 rooms, a spa, tennis and squash courts, an exercise facility, and is home to the only Forbes Five-Star restaurant in the state of Georgia, The Georgian Room. It is the only resort in the world to have received four Forbes Five-Star awards for ten consecutive years. Georgia’s Sea Island is part of a long chain of barrier islands, also known as “sea islands,” located along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida between the Santee and St. Johns rivers. Source: Wikipedia
Beach Club Garden Residences
0
Homes Sold
-
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
-
Avg. Days on Market
Beach Club Ocean Residences
0
Homes Sold
-
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
-
Avg. Days on Market
Cloister Ocean Residences
1
Homes Sold
$1,200,000 Median Closed Sales Price
15.15
Months of Inventory
55
Avg. Days on Market
Ocean Forest
2
Homes Sold
$6,650,000 Median Closed Sales Price
12.12
Months of Inventory
103
Avg. Days on Market
Sea Island Cottages
1
Homes Sold
$5,400,000 Median Closed Sales Price
12.12
Months of Inventory
-
Avg. Days on Market
River Club
1
Homes Sold
$3,700,000 Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
51
Avg. Days on Market
Brunswick
28
Homes Sold
$200,000
Median Closed Sales Price
3.96
Months of Inventory
85
Avg. Days on Market
Neighborhoods of Brunswick, GA Brunswick is a city in and the county seat of Glynn County, Georgia, United States. As the main urban and economic center of the state's lower southeast, it is the second-largest urban area on the Georgia coast after Savannah and contains the Brunswick Old Town Historic District. British colonists settled the peninsula in 1738 as a buffer to Spanish Florida. It came under provincial control in 1771 and was founded as "Brunswick" after the German duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the ancestral home of the House of Hanover. It was incorporated as a city in 1856. Throughout its history, Brunswick has served as an important port city: in World War II, it served as a strategic military location with an operational base for escort blimps and a shipbuilding facility for the U.S. Maritime Commission. Brunswick supports a progressive economy largely based on tourism and logistics, with a metropolitan GDP of $3.9 billion. The Port of Brunswick handles approximately 10 percent of all U.S. roll-on/roll-off trade—third in the U.S., behind the ports of Los Angeles and Newark. The headquarters of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is located 5 miles north of the central business district of the city and is adjacent to Brunswick Golden Isles Airport, which provides commercial air service to the area. In the 2010 U.S. census, the population of the city proper was 15,383; the urban area, 51,024; and the metropolitan area, 112,370. Brunswick is located on a harbor of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 40 mi north of Florida and 80 mi south of South Carolina. Brunswick is bordered on the west by Oglethorpe Bay, the East River, and the Turtle River. It is bordered on the south by the Brunswick River and on the east by the Atlantic Intra coastal Waterway in the Mackay River, which separates it from the Golden Isles. Source: Wikipedia
Autumn’s Wood
2
Homes Sold
$317,590
Median Closed Sales Price
1.51
Months of Inventory
183
Avg. Days on Market
Avondale
2
Homes Sold
$322,500
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
80
Avg. Days on Market
Belle Point
3
Homes Sold
$235,900
Median Closed Sales Price
2
Months of Inventory
69
Avg. Days on Market
Carriage Gate Plantation
13
Homes Sold
$434,900
Median Closed Sales Price
2.07
Months of Inventory
108
Avg. Days on Market
Clear Water
10
Homes Sold
$395,000
Median Closed Sales Price
9.09
Months of Inventory
56
Avg. Days on Market
Country Walk
2
Homes Sold
$475,250
Median Closed Sales Price
16.66
Months of Inventory
166
Avg. Days on Market
Covington Pointe
4
Homes Sold
$345,000
Median Closed Sales Price
6.01
Months of Inventory
184
Avg. Days on Market
Cypress Run
3
Homes Sold
$240,000
Median Closed Sales Price
4
Months of Inventory
81
Avg. Days on Market
Laurel Grove Plantation
1
Homes Sold
$899,700
Median Closed Sales Price
3.03
Months of Inventory
149
Avg. Days on Market
Lexington Place
2
Homes Sold
$367,500
Median Closed Sales Price
3.03
Months of Inventory
29
Avg. Days on Market
Marshes of Mackay
4
Homes Sold
$437,500
Median Closed Sales Price
3.75
Months of Inventory
93
Avg. Days on Market
Oak Grove Island
6
Homes Sold
$625,000
Median Closed Sales Price
8.5
Months of Inventory
110
Avg. Days on Market
Old Town
1
Homes Sold
$217,000
Median Closed Sales Price
36.36
Months of Inventory
125
Avg. Days on Market
Riverside
2
Homes Sold
$517,500
Median Closed Sales Price
4.54
Months of Inventory
64
Avg. Days on Market
Saddle Brooke
0
Homes Sold
-
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
-
Avg. Days on Market
Tanglewood
1
Homes Sold
$285,000
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
32
Avg. Days on Market
The Villas at Golden Isles
1
Homes Sold
$270,000
Median Closed Sales Price
-
Months of Inventory
154
Avg. Days on Market
Windsor Park
3
Homes Sold
$370,000
Median Closed Sales Price
1
Months of Inventory
69
Avg. Days on Market
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The Journey of a Listing
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Prepared by: John Hallman (404) 219-1063 John.Hallman@evrealestate.com