Two Brokers, One Border Town
Adobe Real Estate Group has run out of the same address on South 100 East in Kanab since 1996. The co-owners are Sally Quinn and Sue Weitzman, and the firm operates under the Coldwell Banker franchise — locally owned, locally staffed, with both partners publicly named and credentialed. Thirty years is a long run anywhere; in Kanab — population around five thousand, give or take the season — it’s the difference between a brokerage and a piece of civic infrastructure. People have bought and sold houses through Quinn and Weitzman across two and three generations now.
Kanab’s real estate market doesn’t look like the rest of the 435. There’s no master-planned subdivision boom, no I-15 commuter pull, no St. George-style growth curve. What there is: tourism feeding short-term rentals on the Zion-to-Bryce loop, an unusual concentration of animal-rescue and Best Friends-adjacent buyers, retirees relocating from harder climates, second-home buyers who saw the red rock once and didn’t leave, and a steady cross-border current with the Arizona Strip — Fredonia, Page, the small communities under the Vermilion Cliffs.
A Dual-State License, By Necessity
Sally Quinn carries real estate licensure in both Utah and Arizona, which is a meaningful operational fit for the way Kanab actually transacts. The state line runs across the south end of town — Fredonia is seven miles down Highway 89A — and many Kanab brokerages will hand off Arizona-side properties to a separate firm. Adobe doesn’t have to. A buyer who’s looking at a property in Kanab and a property in Fredonia can stay with one broker through both, which sounds small until you’ve tried to coordinate a contingent sale across state lines with two listing agents who’ve never met. The brokerage’s portfolio runs the categories the local market actually produces — primary residences, vacation homes, hobby ranches, recreational land, and the occasional historic property in the older Kanab grid that was someone’s grandparents’ house and has now turned over to a new family from out of state.
Adobe Real Estate in the 435
Kanab is the corner of the 435 that’s easiest for a Southern Utah register to under-cover, because it’s three hours from St. George and the businesses there don’t share a customer base with Washington County. Listing Adobe Real Estate Group is part of how this register signals that the 435 is the whole 435 — Kane County, the Arizona Strip’s northern edge, the Zion-to-Bryce corridor — not just the I-15 spine. Quinn and Weitzman have been doing this work in this town for thirty years; that’s the kind of business this register exists for.