Hawkins Island
Homes for Sale in St. Simons Island, GA

Hawkins Island market snapshot (as of September 20, 2026): the median sale price is about $3.19M ($569 per sq ft over the trailing 12 months of closed sales), and a median 99 days on market for closed sales.

In ZIP 31522 (St. Simons Island), 715 homes closed in the last 12 months at a median of $608K ($320/sq ft), down 1.1% year over year, with a median 89 days on market. Right now 280 active and 59 pending listings put supply at about 5.8 months — a buyer's market. See the live ZIP 31522 housing market.

SCOUT sales records identify 32 homes in Hawkins Island that have changed hands since 2001, built between 1999 and 2017 (median 2005), with a median living area of about 5,319 sq ft and a typical 4-bedroom, 5.5-bath layout; 100% are single-family homes. Source: SCOUT closed-sale history compiled by Momentum Research; counts reflect homes with a recorded MLS sale, not every home in the community.

Hawkins Island is a low-volume, high-value corner of St. Simons Island in Glynn County, where price is set property-by-property rather than by a shared amenity base, and appreciation since 2012 (158%) reflects long-term land and waterfront scarcity more than any development cycle.

Three closings in the current window is not a statistical sample — it's a handful of individual transactions, each shaped by a specific lot, dock, or view. That makes the $3,189,000 median and $568.96 per-square-foot figure directional rather than predictive. Two comparable homes here can price very differently depending on water frontage, elevation, and how recently the home was updated, and no amenity roster steps in to standardize value the way a pool or gate system might elsewhere.

The 99-day median days-on-market fits that picture. This is not a market where pricing mistakes get bailed out by demand volume — with so few active buyers and sellers at this price point, a home that's mispriced or poorly presented will simply wait. The 158% appreciation figure since 2012 speaks to the long arc of value on the island, but it says nothing about month-to-month liquidity, which stays thin by design.

In a market with this few comparable sales, pricing a listing or vetting an offer requires pulling context from outside the immediate MLS window — recent island-wide waterfront activity, lot-specific value drivers, and construction quality — rather than leaning on a thin local median. We do that work before you're negotiating, not after.

Listings in this community report association dues of about $485 per month ($5,820 a year) — the median AssociationFee across 75 MLS records, normalised to a monthly figure; most are billed monthly. Dues change with budgets and can differ by section or product type; confirm the current figure with the association before you offer. Source: MLS listing records, 2026-10.

Confirm the current HOA dues, exactly what they cover, and any CDD bond or special assessment for a specific address before you offer.